This suite depicts the journey of St. Colum Cille through the Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and Galicia.

Henry destroyed the remaining adulterine castles and expanded his power through various means and to different levels into Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Flanders, Nantes, Brittany, Quercy, Toulouse, Bourges and Auvergne.

Henry II planned to divide his and his wife's territories between their sons, of which there were three at the time ; Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine from his mother and become Count of Poitiers, and Geoffrey would get Brittany through marriage alliance with Constance, the heiress to the region.

Anne jealously guarded Brittany's autonomy, but the duchy was eventually fully merged with the French crown through the marriage of her daughter Claude of France to the French King and the so-called Union of Brittany and France under Claude's son.

Claude was heiress to the Duchy of Brittany through her mother, Anne of Brittany.

With the House of Lancaster extinct, the relatively unknown Henry Tudor proclaimed himself the Lancastrian heir from his exile in Brittany ; he claimed descent from John of Gaunt through his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Thus, the folklorist Anatole Le Braz gives a detailed account of one ballad singer, Yann Ar Minouz, who wrote and performed songs traveling through Brittany in the late nineteenth century and selling printed versions.

Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond ( 23 September 1158 – 19 August 1186 ) was Duke of Brittany between 1181 and 1186, through his marriage with the heiress Constance.

Recognizing that John of England could have Eleanor married to a vassal loyal to England, who would rule Brittany through her, Philip II of France formally recognized Constance's infant daughter Alix as hereditary Duchess of Brittany.

This line of the Blois-Penthièvre family maintained close ties to the successive kings of France and through the French crown the family were often present in Brittany in some oversight capacity.

After the Breton War of Succession, Brittany still had links with the English Crown through the Earldom of Richmond, until the Wars of the Roses.

He was freed through the efforts of his wife the Duchess of Brittany, Joan of France, who confiscated the remaining wealth of the Penthièvre family.

Their later descendants, the Brosse line of the House of Penthièvre through Jean de Brosse were denied their claims to the Ducal Crown in the 15th Century possibly as an alteration of the rules of inheritance by the then Duke of Brittany, Francis II.

The wars with France eventually cost Ducal Brittany is independence, while the Parlement ensured a degree of autonomy that would continue through the reign of Louis XIV of France.

By this marriage, and through the succession to the French crown, the King of France became Duke of Brittany once more.

Katherine Keats-Rohan, in 1996, proposed that Conan III disinherited his legitimate son for the purpose of unifying Brittany through the marriage of his daughter Bertha to her cousin Alan, whose father inherited two of the provinces of Brittany.

He returned to Europe in 1901, where he visited Spain to study the painting of Velázquez and El Greco and traveled through Brittany, and the Netherlands to see portraits by his " heroes ", Frans Hals and Rembrandt.

The next day, although the U. S. VIII Corps continued to advance west through Brittany toward the ports of Brest and Lorient, Bradley ordered Patton to drive eastward with the main body of the U. S. Third Army, around the open German flank and into the German rear areas.

The earldom was then given to John de Montfort, Duke of Brittany, but on his death without heirs in 1399, or possibly at an earlier date through forfeiture, it reverted to the crown.

It comes from a Brythonic language community ( see image ) that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica ( present-day Brittany ) and which had even established a toehold in Galicia ( in present-day Spain ).

It was the language of the upper classes until the 12th century, after which it became the language of commoners in West Brittany ( Breizh Izel ), while the nobility, followed by the bourgeoisie, adopted French.

This is notable because, according to the comic, the Gaulish village where Asterix lives is in the Armoric peninsula, which is now Brittany.

The Toubon Law states that French is the language of public education, which means that Breton-language schools do not receive funding from the national government, though the Brittany Region may fund them.

The Battle of Bouvines, which took place on 27 July 1214, was a medieval battle ending the twelve year old Angevin-Flanders War that was fundamental in the early development of France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy.

The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

This perhaps reflects the influence of widespread oral traditions common by 800 which are recorded in various place names and features such as Arthur's Seat indicating Arthur was a hero known and associated with many locations across Brittonic areas of Britain as well as Brittany.

Yet in nations or regions where traditional folk music is a badge of cultural or national identity, the loss of traditional music can be slowed ; this is held to be true, for instance in the case of Bangladesh, Hungary, India, Ireland, Scotland, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, Brittany, and Galicia, Greece and Crete all of which retain their traditional music to some degree, in some such areas the decline of traditional music and loss of traditions has been reversed.

Two significant waterways not under VNF's control are the navigable sections of the River Somme and the Brittany Canals, which are both under local management.

Buckwheat grows widely in Brittany as well and is used in the region's galettes, called jalet, which is where this dish originated.

After Pleumeur Bodou ( Brittany ) which received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States via the Telstar satellite at 0H47 GMT on July 11, 1962, Arthur received his first vidéo in the middle of the same day.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

* the Couesnon, which traditionally marks the boundary between the Duchy of Brittany and the Duchy of Normandy

In 1127, Honorius confirmed the acts of the Synod of Nantes, presided over by Archbishop Hildebert of Lavardin, which eradicated certain local abuses in Brittany.

International catastrophes such as the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in 1978 and the Bhopal disaster in 1984 have demonstrated the universality of such events and the scale on which efforts to address them needed to engage.

Henry II had conquered Brittany and taken control of Gisors and the Vexin, which had been part of Margaret's dowry.

This class of German boats could be highly effective, as in the action in which the British cruiser HMS Charybdis was sunk off Brittany by a torpedo salvo launched by the Elbing-class torpedo boats T23 and T27.

The King of Brittany takes the oath to the King of France ( but not an hommage lige which would be an allegiance ).

* Anne of Brittany ( 1477 – 1514 ) — they were married by proxy in Rennes on 18 December 1490, but the contract was dissolved by the Pope in early 1492, by which time Anne had already been forced by the French King, Charles VIII ( the fiancé of Maximilian's daughter Margaret of Austria ) to repudiate the contract and marry him instead.

The principality, which he thus carved out for himself, was occupied, on his death, by Erispoé, duke of Brittany ; by him it was handed down to his successors, in whose hands it remained until the beginning of the 10th century.

He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.

After Henry II's death in 1189 the countship, together with the rest of his dominions, passed to his son Richard I of England, but on the death of the latter in 1199, Arthur of Brittany ( born in 1187 ) laid claim to the inheritance, which ought, according to him, to have fallen to his father Geoffrey, fourth son of Henry II, in accordance with the custom by which " the son of the eldest brother should succeed to his father's patrimony.