Berengar II of Neustria

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Berengar II of Neustria, was count of Bayeux and Rennes and paternal grandfather of Conan I of Rennes. Berengar married the daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany, by which relationship he attained countship of Rennes and her brother Judicael became Duke. Berengar became the first Gallo lord holding residence within Brittany, as a consequence of the Breton nobility being more or less broken under the Norman invasion of the 900s and reward for holding his ground against their attackers. Berengar was named for Berengar I of Neustria, but most likely son (he named his daughter the feminine form of Henry's father's name, suggesting the likelihood that Poppo was his own grandfather--besides the fact that the main Capetian branch held the Breton March) of Henry of Franconia, himself a member of the Senior Capets through Babenberg lineage. In addition, it appears that the Babenberg line shared the same hostility and covetousness to depose the Carolingians as the main Capetians. Berengar's son was Judicael Berengar, who succeeded him as Count of Rennes. His daughter was Poppa, who was strategically wed to Rollo of Normandy.