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Brittany was and is inhabited by another people with a quite different culture and a different language from that of the Franks, the Breton language is Brythonic Celtic  and has much in common with Cornish and Welsh. There are other Celtic languages known as Goidelic and this grouping includes Irish, Scottish and Manx. 

In Roman times  Brittany was known as Armorica and the Celtic Tribe who lived there the Venetii. The language spoken by the Venetii is unknown, as at the end of the Roman period, Brittany  was flooded with  Romano-Celtic refugees from  the Anglo-Saxon invasion of mainland Britain.

Brittany was then itself invaded by Vikings as was normandy further east the vikings who invaded normandy became known as Normans and they invaded both England and Brittany. when Henry of Anjou successfully claimed the English crown, he made his son Geoffrey Duke of Brittany. both Geoffrey and his son Arthur died in mysterious circumstances. 

As a result of the deaths of Geoffrey and Arthur the inheritance of the Duchy became to say the least, complicated. it was not made ant easier when John III died in 1341 without issue.

By 1355 there were two separate claimants to  the duchy—Charles of Blois, by virtue of his marriage to Joan of Penthièvre  and John of Montfort. John  had a better claim and was supported by King Edward  III of England,  Charles was championed by the Franks.

Chateau Monmuran lay  on the  very edge of the zone of Frankish influence as did Broons, the birthplace of Bertrand du Guesclin


These circumsnces gave rise to the conflict at Montmuran

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