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Battle of Dinan was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 22 February 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Breton–Norman war. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.
The chronology makes no sense... At the battle of Dinan, Harold was not yet King of England, so it was before William had started planning the invasion of England. Otherwise, why would Harold be fighting on his side? If the part about Conan threatening to invade Normandy while William was at war in England is true (I have no idea), it must have been a separate, later conflict from the war in which Harold fought.
Yes, the chronology is unclear to say the least, so someone should research more thoroughly so as to get the relationship between the events straight. Conan did trounce Anjou during the latter months of 1066 (no mean feat, as Duke William had made no headway against the County itself), then invaded Norman-occupied Mayenne en route to Normandy itself. For what it's worth, I accuse Roger II of Montgomery of the poisoning: he was Governor of Normandy at the time. Conan's father Duke Alan died, it's alleged from poisoning, when Alan was guardian of the young William and besieging a castle owned by the rebel Roger I, Roger II's father. Moreover, Roger II later displayed great duplicity during the 1088 rebellion against King William II.
Conan, incidentally, had a bona fide descent from King Alfred, through his mother Bertha of Blois, so he was a threat to William's ambitions in England also. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoetropo (talk • contribs) 04:39, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The chronology of this article is all out of order. It gives no idea onto what started the conflict between the duchy of Normandy and the duchy of Brittany other then William the conqueror supporting a rebellion there. No information about the why there was a rebellion going on. Also the part that was included about the soldiers in quick sand being saved by Harold of Wessex seems irrelevant or I am just missing the point of it. Overall this article needs some work, I plan to dive deeper into primary sources from the time and see if I can help change this. Only one source was used that has any valid information. Berns6 (talk) 16:56, 19 January 2022 (UTC)Berns6[reply]
the anecdote about Harold saving the Norman knights is mostly ironic considering he would die at their hands a year later at Hastings. I think it's worth a mention, especially since this battle is included in the depictions on the Bayeaux tapestry, something I had no idea about, and is fascinating.
