Known to the Romans as Armorica, it was resettled by colonists from the north in the sixth century, and retained a reputation for rebelliousness into the eighteenth-century uprisings of the Chouans.  
Its hero Nominoe was famous for his defiance of Charles the Bald.  His successors earned the title of duke and were briefly dispossessed by the Plantagenets in the twelfth century. Their last heir, Anne, married Charles VIII and Louis XII in succession shortly before a formal act of union in 1532.  Known to the Romans as Armorica, it was resettled by colonists from the north in the sixth century, and retained a reputation for rebelliousness into the eighteenth-century uprisings of the Chouans.  The island of Ushant lies off its western tip, separating the English Channel from the Bay of Biscay to the south.  FTP, this term named the region of western France that includes Brest and Rennes long before it came into fashion as a female first name.
Its hero Nominoe was famous for his defiance of Charles the Bald.  
Brittany