[4] Brychan and Meneduc prayed, promising a tenth of all their possessions to the church if they were granted a child who could inherit.
[6] She taught new agricultural techniques to the local Breton communities, as well as encouraging tree planting so they could better support themselves.
[1] The book Les petits Bollandistes vies des saints de l'Ancien et du Nouveau gives Ninnoc's year of death as 467,[7] after a short illness.
[1] In Ireland, a Saint Ninne (of whom there is no record) is remembered on 3 June, and it has been suggested by the historian Sabine Baring-Gould that she is connected to Ninnoc's cult.
[2] Baring-Gould also refutes the idea that it was St Germanus of Auxerre who preached to Ninnoc, as repeated by Dunbar in A Dictionary of Saintly Women.
[15] The production of the Vitae in the 12th century was also a political act, which aimed to legitimise the holdings of the Sainte-Croix Abbey—in this case to assert its rights over the land around Lannennec.
[16] This use of her Vitae as a tool for legitimacy is compounded by the fact it is not placed at the start of the cartulary but is in the local property sections.