Brittany

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…offrey Plantagenet, son of Henry II, king of England, in 1171. It reverted to a line of French dukes at Rennes early in the 13th century. In 1491, when Anne of Bretagne, who had inherited the duchy, married Charles VIII, king of France, Bretagne was temporarily united with France. The union became permanent by treaty in 1532, during the reign of the French king Francis I, who had married Claude, daughter of Anne of Bretagne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**