AH Challenge: "Maximum Brittany"

raharris1973

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Could we get the Bretons expanding down to Bordeaux, or up to Paris? Is it ASB for France to be established around a Breton core by the end of the Middle Ages?
 
You could have Brittany and Anjou merged in marriage instead of it uniting with Normandy.

Maybe you can use the childen of Geoffrey Plantagent and the Duchess Costance of Brittany. If Richard Lionhearted on his death bed make a different choice dividing his lands between John and Arthur of Brittany and left to the first only England and Aquitaine and thus giving Arthur Normandy, Anjou and Maine, uniting this territory to the Brittany.
 
What about the Empress Matilda marry a Breton instead of Geoffrey Plantagenet? A proper, native Breton duke as opposed to the Francophile Arthur.
 
Basically, no.

Bretons were in too few numbers to go further than Armorica.

For a Brittany core, no again. The land was too poor, and the wealth of Breton came mainly from raid and pillage up to the development of an Atlantic trade worth of mention.
 
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