Quémènès
Quémènès or Quemenes (French: Île de Quémènès; Breton: Kemenez) is an island in the Molène Archipelago in the Atlantic off Brittany, France. As of 2023, it has a population of 3. It is administered as part of the commune of Le Conquet, St-Renan Canton, Brest Arrondissement, in Finistère Department.
History
In 1292, two sailors, one Norman and one Bayonnais, quarreled over who would draw water from a well on the island first. The dispute ended in murder, probably of the Norman, and other Norman and French sailors began to assault Aquitainian & English shipping and ports. This eventually escalated into the 1294–1303 Gascon War, which ended in a general return to the status quo but whose financing provoked a clerical crisis leading to the Avignon Papacy and whose settlement terms produced the marriage leading to the Hundred Years' War.
Geography
Quémènès lies 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) from Molène, the chief island of the archipelago.
References
Citations
- ^ Heebøll-Holm (2013), p. 83.
Bibliography
- Heebøll-Holm, Thomas K. (2013), "Guerra Maritima", Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War: Piracy in the English Channel and the Atlantic, c. 1280–c. 1330, Medieval Law and Its Practice, Vol. 15, Leiden: Brill, pp. 83–126, JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctv4cbhhw.9.
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