Hoèl III, Count of Nantes

Hoèl of Cornwall (died 1156) is count of Nantes, from 1148 to his death. He is raised the son of Duke Conan III and Maud FitzRoy, an illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England. However, he is disinherited by his father when on his death-bed, as Conan III claimi that Hoèl was illegitimate and no son of his. Bertha then became heiress to Duke Conan's lands in Brittany, while Hoèl is allowed to remain Count of Nantes. He is accused by St. Bernard of Clairvaux of having an incestuous affair with his sister Bertha.

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