Eon le Senechal (may 1, 1280 – may 1, 1330)

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V. DEGREE.

Eon or Eudon the Seneschal, Lord of the Bot in the Parish of Saint-Caradec, of Kercado etc. (younger brother of Olivier II the Seneschal, by name, & like him son of Fraval II) is linked with the Heirs Seneschal Feudal Heirs of Rohan, in a way which leaves no doubt about its origin; And indeed what establishes this connection, it is not only the name of the Seneschal which he carried like his elders and which he transmitted to his descendants; it is the very Land of the Bot in the Parish of Saint-Caradec, which he shared at the end of the 13th century, and which his descendants memes have always held since in the ramage of the feudal Seneschal Sires & Heirs of Rohan, & lodging of Viscounts with exemption of redemption As for the Land of Carcado or Kercado, whose name has always been linked to that of the House since Eon le Sénéchal, the Inquiry bears
" that he had had it by marrying OLIVE DE CARCADO or KERCADO, heir to his name, and that this Land was also free of redemption by a particular exemption that the Viscounts of Rohan had given to the Lords of the name of Kercado.
“The same Eon the Seneschal & Olive of Kercado leaves rent of their alliance four sons 1. RICHARD, 2. ALAN, 3. GUILLAUME, & 4. GUI or GUION the Seneschal.”
1. RICHARD the Seneschal lived in 1354 and died without leaving any posterity.
2. ALAN the Seneschal having become the main heir & Noble of the House by the death of his elder, was in this capacity Lord of Kercado & of the Bot, & continued the descendants.
GUILLAUME the Seneschal had his share in the Court of Pontivy on Saturday after the Feast of Noyal of the year 1368, by an act in which it is said that his brother Alan “by giving him in his own right what belonged to him in the successions of their father & mother received him at Man as Youngest Son & made him render of mouth the homage of faith with all the solemnity required, in the presence of Monsour Gui, Sire of MOLAC, of Monsour Gui his son, of Monsour Olivier THOMELIN, of Quillot of QUESNECAN or QUÉNÉCAN, said of Brohais, & others.” He was one of the Lords whose Duke made sure & took the oath in 1371, & 1372, when the most powerful among the Barons protested to this Prince that they would abandon him & expel him from the Country, as soon as they would see him prepared to help the King of England. Those who took the same oath on this occasion, were among others Jean of ROHAN I. Viscount by name, Brient of LANNION, Rolland of KERGORLÉ, Charles of DINAN, Rolland Viscount of COETMEN, & Thomas of MELBURNE, whom the Duke sent shortly after in England to treat with King Edward III, And in the very act by which he committed his faith to the Duke, are named Alan SAISIZ, Bizian of MONTEVILLE, Eon of KEROENON, Hervé of KERSALIOU He also died without children, & perhaps without having been married.
3. GUI or GUION the Seneschal is named six times in the Work of Father Lobineau, the first in the year 1373, between the Knights & Squires, at the head of which the Constable Bertrand du Guesclin, the Duke of Bourbon Louis II. of the name, with the Counts of Alençon & du Perche, placed the Siege in front of the City of Brest, when Charles V., warned of a descent that the English were to make in Brittany, attracted by the Duke, sent to seize the country on this Prince who was obliged to retire to England; The second under August 15, 1377, on the occasion of the Siege & of the taking of Aurai by the Constable Olivier of Clisson, who was then Lieutenant of Charles V. in Brittany, & who had for some years a Company of two cens Lances, where with Guion the Seneschal we noticed among others the Baron of RAIZ, the Sires of MONTRELAIS & of BEAUMANOIR, Renaud of TOUARS, a CALLAC, a SESMAISONS, a PERRENO, a du ROUVRÉ, a du CHASTEL, a MONTAUBAN, one from ROUX, one from BEC, all Knights, one from JUCH, one MAULÉON, one from PARC, one SÉVÉRAC, one COURCILLON, & others; The third as one of the twenty-two Squires, who at a Watch or Revûë made at the Bastille - Saint-Gouesnou near Brest on October 15, 1378, found himself in the wages of the King in his Wars of the Païs of Brittany under the Government of the Sire of Cliffon, & under the Banner of the Sire of Léon, Alan VIII of ROHAN, by name;

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