# Fragan

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'''Fragan''' was a 5th-century [pre-Congregational saint](/source/pre-Congregational_saint) and [Prince](/source/Prince) of [Scotland](/source/Scotland).
He is celebrated on 3 October in the Calendar of the Breton Saints,<ref name="grandterrier">{{cite web|url=http://www.grandterrier.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:Almanak_Octobre|title=Modèle:Almanak octobre|website=GrandTerrier|accessdate=2017-10-11|archive-date=13 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013095045/http://grandterrier.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:Almanak_Octobre|url-status=dead}}</ref>  and shares with Gwen a [feast day](/source/feast_day) on 5 July in the Roman Calendar.

Fragan came from Great Britain, and was a Prince of Albany in Scotland. In the 5th century, he left Scotland to evangelize [Armorica](/source/Armorica).

==Biography==

=== Family background ===
He was the [husband](/source/husband) of [Gwenn](/source/Gwen_Teirbron) and father of the [twin](/source/twin)s [Jacut](/source/Jacut)<ref name=Butler /><ref name=Baring3 /> and [Guethenoc](/source/Saint_Wethenoc),<ref name=Butler /><ref name=Baring3 /> of [Guénolé](/source/Gu%C3%A9nol%C3%A9), and of [Creirwy](/source/Klervi), [Winwaloe](/source/Winwaloe),<ref>William Hone, The every-day book and table-book; or, Everlasting calendar of popular amusements (William Hone,  1837) [https://books.google.com/books?id=yxH3Vm9FcsYC&dq=st+Fragan&pg=PA281  p281].</ref> son of Prince Fragan (or Fracan) and Teirbron.<ref name=Butler>Butler, Alban.  ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=F4oEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275 The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints]'', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).</ref><ref name=Baring3>Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John.  ''[https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa03bariuoft The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain]'', Volume 3, p. 38 (1911).</ref> He is also a cousin of [Riwall](/source/Riwall) and stepfather to [Cadfan](/source/Saint_Cadfan), son of Eneas Ledewig (or Aeneas of Brittany) and Teirbron.<ref>Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John.  ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=-G4AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9 The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain]'', Volume 2, p. 9 (C. J. Clark, 1908).</ref>

=== Later life ===
He left [Britain](/source/Great_Britain) and moved to [Ploufragan](/source/Ploufragan) ([Côtes-d'Armor](/source/C%C3%B4tes-d'Armor)) towards the end of the 4th century or perhaps as late as 418 [AD](/source/Anno_Domini).<ref>Ancien nom parfois attribué au vent, en particulier au [mistral](/source/Mistral_(vent)), mais ici au vent de [noroît](/source/Noro%C3%AEt_(vent))</ref><ref>Moine Clément, ''Vie de saint Gwennolé confesseur'', dite ''Vie brève'', vers 860</ref> There, he settled in the [Sang River](/source/Sang_River) valley. He was the founder of the castle of Lesguen, in the present commune of [Plouguin](/source/Plouguin).<ref name="infobretagne">{{cite web|url=http://www.infobretagne.com/saint-fregant.htm|website=infobretagne.com|title=Saint-Frégant : Histoire, Patrimoine, Noblesse (commune du canton de Lesneven)|accessdate=2017-10-11}}</ref><ref name="infobretagne2">{{cite web|url=http://www.infobretagne.com/plounevez-prieure-lochrist.htm|title=Prieuré de Lochrist-an-Izelvet (ou Izelvez) en Plounévez-Lochrist (Finistère - Bretagne)|website=infobretagne.com|accessdate=2017-10-11}}</ref>

Fragan is also known for having amassed a small army in haste to repel  a larger force of pagan pirates at the [battle of Lochrist](/source/battle_of_Lochrist).<ref>Albert Le Grand, La vie, gestes, mort et miracles des Saints de la Bretagne Armorique, ensemble un catalogue des évêques des neuf eveschés d'icelle, 1659,</ref>

==References==
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Category:5th-century Christian saints
Category:5th-century Scottish people
Category:Scottish saints
Category:Armorica

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