My British Empire

  Chapter 445 Roon Family

  The Brittany region originally belonged to the Duchess Anna, who was then forced to marry Charles VIII, and finally married Louis XII.

   gave birth to the only daughter Claude, Claude married François I and gave birth to Henry II.

  So, the last duke should be King Henry II of France.

  In this way, the main branch of the Roon family is broken, and a new main branch is bound to be needed. After all, the Roon family has ruled Brittany for hundreds of years and has many branches.

  Thus, the branch located in Montbazon was able to take over due to blood relationship factors, and successfully changed from the branch to the main branch, which is a great leap.

  However, the resulting consequences are also very bad.

  Because it is the upper branch of the branch, it does not have the kind of pride and confidence from the heart of the main branch in the past. It seriously lacks prestige and leadership for other branches, so it can only choose to discuss.

  Joseline has always been the fiefdom of the Roon family. The Joselin Castle, which has been constantly decorated for hundreds of years, is also the location of the main branch of the Roon family, and it is also the blood center that the Roon family has always recognized in their hearts.

  At this time, in Fort Josephine, in the hall, the round candlesticks hanging on the wall are already full of candles, even the candlestick in the center of the sky is no exception.

A long table is placed in the center, and Louis Rohan, who is the main branch, sits on the seats listlessly. A dozen other clan chiefs with relatively high reputation and prestige are sitting at the long table, with different faces. This scene looks similar to The Last Luncheon mural is very similar.

  And those branch patriarchs who are not well-known and of low status can only sit in the back as observers.

   Even though the memory hall is very large, it still looks crowded after hundreds of people are seated.

  Has ruled Brittany for hundreds of years, and the Roon family has an extremely large branch, so they don't have to worry about cutting off their bloodlines.

  Even during the French Revolution, the Rohan family was still active. Even in the Napoleon period, there was a Marshal Rohan.

  Even in the 21st century, the Rohan family is still active in French politics.

   This is also another plenary meeting of the Roang family after the last meeting to elect the succession of the main branch. It is grand and meaningful.

  Servants were serving drinks carefully, with strict rules.

  Because it is a great nobleman who has been passed down for hundreds of years, everyone's speech and actions are extremely standard. Before Louis Rohan spoke, the whole hall seemed quiet.

   "Everyone, I just got the news that the English have captured the city of Brest unexpectedly, and have an army of tens of thousands. Today, the Roon family has reached a critical moment of life and death. Please speak freely!"

  As soon as the young Louis finished speaking, the entire hall suddenly started chattering, and he didn't stop it.

  The reason why they said it was unexpected is because the capture of Brest City was really not what they expected.

   After all, the port closest to the capital, Rennes, is St. Rocco, and next to St. Rocco are all the Channel Islands in England, Guernsey and Narcissus as the center.

   This is the heritage of the Duchy of Normandy, just ten miles from France.

  So, although the city of Brest is prosperous, the island with the most military value is Saint Rocco Island.

  So, a large part of Brittany's military power is in the port of Saint-Roch.

  The most important thing is that after capturing the city of Brest, although the distance is relatively long, the embarrassing thing is that there are no relatively strong castles along the way, basically there is no blocking force, and the city of Rennes can be directly reached.

   Tens of thousands of British troops (the effect of propaganda), if they act faster, it only takes seven or eight days to reach the city of Rennes.

   "My lord, the tens of thousands of English troops, with our strength of a few thousand people, cannot defend it. Let's just surrender!"

  A branch patriarch, who looks mighty, unexpectedly speaks cowardly words, which is surprising.

   "That's true. There is no need to question the strength of the English. With the strength of our Bretons, we cannot beat it! It is better to surrender!"

  Other branches also supported and agreed to surrender.

   It can be seen that for hundreds of years, England has cultivated a lot of influence in Brittany. After all, the exchanges between the two places are extensive.

   "No, absolutely not!" A gentleman dressed as a branch shook his head and refused.

   "Nowadays, the English are coming aggressively, and they may annex us in one fell swoop. Brittany belongs to our Roon family, and the Tudor family will never succeed!"

   "The Rohan family is the master of Brittany, and the English will never be allowed to occupy it!"

  Behind him, there are many branches supporting him.

  As for Louis Rohan, who was sitting on the main seat, the titular patriarch of the family, he was a little embarrassed at this moment, and the scene was a little out of control.

   "Ahem! Quiet everyone, be quiet!" He rolled his eyes a few times and said loudly.

   It was only when he saw all eyes on him that he felt that he was the real patriarch of the Luo Ang family.

   "Based on our current situation, we can't deal with the English at all, but the French are engaged in a civil war. Simply, we evacuated to the border castle!"

  The border castle is a castle built by Grand Duchess Anna and her father on the Buffa border to maintain the autonomy of Brittany.

   More importantly, it is very close to France, and France can be withdrawn if necessary.

  This proposal has been unanimously approved by everyone, and they all expressed their satisfaction.

  Subsequently, most of the branches drove home and started the great migration.

  The reason why the Roon family is unwilling to be occupied by the English is that apart from their own long-term self-government ideas, the most important thing is their beliefs.

  Most Bretons believe in Catholicism, while the Rohan family believes in Protestantism.

  Ordinary people certainly think that the English are Protestants, but they nobles understand very well that Anglicanism has little to do with Protestantism, but is very similar to Catholicism.

   This is why they resist the English.

  In real history, these Protestant Roang families made the wrong bet and were forced to cut off nearly half of their fiefs, causing heavy losses.

   Contrary to what the Roon family had guessed, it took about half a month before the British army arrived at the city of Rennes.

  The reason for this is because of alcohol.

  More than one hundred barrels of whiskey were consumed in a few days, and the journey was only halfway through.

  In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the Marquis of Edinburgh had no choice but to plunder the wine cellars of some manors to supplement.

  Plundering the property of the nobility is against the rules.

  So, after each plunder, the Marquess of Edinburgh left an IOU, walking and drinking all the way, and the time was doubled.

   More importantly, the number of wine cellars that have been opened has reached hundreds.

  The amount of IOUs he left has reached tens of thousands of pounds.

  So, looking at the tall city of Rennes in front of him, what he thought about was not how to capture it, but how to make great achievements so that London would not be able to settle accounts with him.

  (end of this chapter)