Pascweten PascwetenPascweten appears as a witness to Breton charters in the years 895 and 903 [Cart. Redon, 216, 376-7], and also in other charters of uncertain date around the same time. He is identified in an eleventh century collection of Angevin genealogies as the father of Beringerius, father of Conanus [Poupardin (1900), 206].
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of
Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: Unknown.
Place of
Death: Unknown.
Father:
Alain le Grand,
d. 907, king of Brittany.
See the page on Alain le Grand for more
details.
Mother: Unknown.
Spouse(s): Unknown.
Possible son:
Juhel alias Bérenger, count of Rennes.
See the page on Juhel Bérenger for more
details. Even if this affiliation is correct, there is no known
justification in the primary sources for giving the title of
"count of Rennes" to Pascweten, as is done by some
modern secondary sources [e.g., Winkhaus (1950)].
Cart. Redon = M. Aurélien de Courson, Cartulaire de l'Abaaye de Redon (Collection de documents inédites sur l'histoire de France, Paris, 1863).
Poupardin (1900) = René Poupardin, "Généalogies angevines du XIe siècle", Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire (Paris, Rome) 20 (1900):199-208.
Winkhaus (1950) = Eberhard Winkhaus, Ahnen zu Karl dem Grossen und Widukind (Ennepetal-Altenvoerde (Westfalen), 1950).
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
Uploaded 17 December 2005.