.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,