.MAIN®NIT IN FACT ORIGINATED IN NANTES AND POSSIBLY JOINED THE COM...
236).
Main®nit in fact originated in Nantes and possibly joined the comital
household when Conan II was brie¯y acknowledged as count of Nantes
from 1050 to 1054 (Preuves, cols. 409, 484; A. CheÂdeville and N.-Y.
Tonnerre,
La Bretagne feÂodale XIe-XIIIe sieÁcle, Rennes, 1987, pp. 42±3).
Main®nit ®rst appears with the title `siniscaldus
Redonensis' in the reign of
Count Geoffrey
Grennonat
(1066±84) (Preuves, col. 428), presumably fol-
lowing his marriage to the widow of Geoffrey son of Glai. Main®nit had at
least three sons: William, Walter (the name of Main®nit's brother) and Agaat
(Preuves, cols. 428, 463, 484, 566). Main®nit disappears after going on the
First Crusade in the entourage of Duke Alan IV (Preuves, col. 484). On the
duke's return there appears a new seneschal, William (Preuves, cols. 504±5,