A French map of the traditional regions of Brittany in Ancient Régime France. Bro Gwened is marked in shades of purple.The flag of the former realm.The flag of the former county.
Gwened, Bro-Gwened (Breton: Bro-Wened) or Vannetais (French: Pays Vannetais) is a historic realm and county of Brittany in France. It is considered part of Lower Brittany.[1]
Bro-Gwened was an early medieval principality or kingdom around Vannes in Armorica (Brittany), lasting from around AD 490 to around 635. It was peopled by Christianized Britons fleeing the Saxon invasions of Britain, who displaced or assimilated the remaining pagan Veneti Gauls. Its bishop and (usually) court was at Gwened, the site of the former Roman settlement of Darioritum and the present French city of Vannes.
Today its territories are included within the modern French department of Morbihan.
^"AM". "Gwened (Vannes/Vannetais)" in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 860. ABC-CLIO (Sta. Barbara), 2006.
Gwened, Bro-Gwened (Breton: Bro-Wened) or Vannetais (French: Pays Vannetais) is a historic realm and county of Brittany in France. It is considered part...
in Britain, Cornwall (Kernow) and Devon (Dumnonia). Bro Waroc'h ("land of Waroch", now BroGwened) derives from the name of one of the first known Breton...
the 17th century favour the latter. Portals: Geography France History BroGwened (Vennetais) Cornouaille Culture of France Enclos paroissial French architecture...
Younger, Cador, Guinier and Ysave became Carados, Candor, Adelis and Isène. BroGwened "Caradoc". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press...
Gwened (also derived from the Veneti), the town was the center of an independent principality or kingdom variously called Bro-Wened ("Vannes") or Bro-Ereg...
of Dol's passing, Mewan travelled to meet the Breton King Waroch II of BroGwened and had to cross the vast Paimpont forest. There he met a wealthy landowner...
Gallo-Frankish enclave before later being conquered as the Breton city Gwened. It forms the core of Vannes in modern France. He seems to have been granted...
Leon, Tregor, Gwened, Dol, St. Malo, Rennes, Nantes, St. Brieuc). Others have been recently created for smaller areas in Brittany (Ushent, Bro Vigoudenn and...
friends as a teenager to Paris to make sound collections of music from BroGwened. His first solo recording came in the summer of 1956 in Le Conquet on...
Sainte-Anne d’Auray, Santéz Anna Gwened association, 1994. - Gloér de Zoué. Book of Melodies, Sainte-Anne d’Auray, Santéz Anna Gwened association, no date. - Gloér...
ruler of the Vannetais (Gwened). Waroch, or his grandfather Waroch I, gave his name to the traditional Breton province of Bro-Waroch ("land of Waroch")...
Cornwall). Bro Waroc'h ("land of Waroch") derives from the name of one of the first known Breton rulers, who dominated the region of Vannes (Gwened). The rulers...
cases identical to their British homelands. (In Breton and French, however, Gwened or Vannetais continued the name of the indigenous Veneti.) Although the...
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