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Salomon of Brittany
Salomon was king of Brittany from 857 to 874. A nephew of Nominoe, he murdered his cousin Erispoe and seized power, then fought and negotiated with Charles the Bald, who granted him the Cotentin and Avranchin in 867. Under him the Breton kingdom reached its greatest extent. He was murdered in 874 by conspirators among the Breton nobility and was later venerated as a saint.
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