Conan had to face several revolts from his own nobles. To sustain the unrest, the duke appealed to the help of king Henry II of England, who, in return, demanded the engagement of Conan’s only daughter and heiress Constance with his son Geoffrey Plantagenet.
Conan is the anglicized version of the Gaelic male name Conán, which means "little wolf" or "little hound", derived from cú (grammatically changed to "con"), meaning hound or wolf, and the diminutive suffix án.
Conan the Barbarian is a literary character created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales in the 1930s and in the films Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Conan the Destroyer (1984).
Conan is a commune of the Loir-et-Cher département in France.