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REDONIS - RENNES (Ille-et-Vilaine) JUDICAEL, King of Brittany

(632-638)

Source WIKIPEDIA: He was born around the year 590. Eldest son of Judhaël, king of Domnonée and queen Pritelle, eldest daughter of Ausoche, prince in the County of Léon. He was the eldest of fifteen brothers and one sister, several of whom are part of the long list of Breton saints, notably Saint Josse and Winoc. On the death of Judhaël around 605, however eldest and heir, he preferred to retire to the monastery of Saint-Jean de Gaël that Saint Méen had just erected, and left the throne to his brother Judoc (or Josse). The latter having in turn embraced the monastic life, Judicaël then left his monastery to take the direction of the kingdom of Domnonée. For twenty years he ruled the kingdom with authority and wisdom. After getting married in Morone in 630 (whose son Gradlon Flam will have), he would have been crowned in 632 and would be with Saint Eloi at the origin of the treaty of 636 signed in Clichy giving King Dagobert I the suzerainty of Brittany to the Franks. Around 640, he would have retired again to a monastery at Gaël (some say the monastery of Paimpont that he had founded), and would have died on the night of December 16 to 17, 658. He was buried next to his master Saint Méen. His natural heirs: Judoc his brother and Winoc his nephew (or son) having also definitively withdrawn from power to retire to monasteries, we do not know who then took the head of the kingdom of Domnonée. .