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The Musée de Beaux-Arts
houses these two magnificent tombs of
the Dukes of Burgundy. NB: photography is permitted but no
flash. Left: Phillip the Bold (1342-1404) by Jean de Marville (1384-89), Claus Sluter (1404-05)& Claus de Werve (1406-1410). Right: his son John the Fearless (1371-1419) & Marguerite de Bavière (1363-1423) by Jean de La Huerta & Antoine Le Moiturier. Both of black marble and alabaster, gilded and polychrome. Originally in the Charterhouse of Champmol in Dijon, then in 1792 moved to the Cathedral and then, after major restoration, to the Duke's Palace in 1827. |
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Caen
Rouen Department: Calvados Seine-Maritime |
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| L'Abbaye aux Hommes L'Abbayeaux Dames | ||
| William the Conqueror and his wife, Matilda of Flanders, founded two abbeys outside the walls of Caen and at opposite sides of the city: L'Abbaye aux Hommes (Church of St Étienne) and L'Abbaye aux Dames (Church of the Trinity) and they were buried in their respective foundations. The simple stone of Matilda still exists (right) but that of William dates only from the nineteenth century (left). His original monument was destroyed and his bones scattered by the Calvinists in 1562; only a thigh bone was recovered and this was reburied in 1642 under a new monument which itself was replaced by a more elaborate structure about a century later, which was in turn destroyed in the revolutionary riots of 1793. |
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| You can park in an underground car park - moderate cost - near the Cathedral. There is no charge for entry or photography. Rouen was the capital of the Duchy of Normandy and the Cathedral the burial place of its early Dukes. |
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The Ambulatory |
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| Richard the
Lion Heart (ob 1199). This
is the site of the heart burial, the heart itself now being in the museum. Note how this effigy differs from
that at Fontevraud, being much more in the round and
resembling those at St Denis. 13th Century HIC.COR.CONDITUM.EST.RICARDI.ANGLORUM.REGIS. QUI.COR.LEONIS.DICTUS..OBIIT.AN.M.C.XC.IX. |
Henry - The
Young King (ob 1183) Henry
was the eldest son of King Henry II (and hence Richard's
brother) who was crowned in his father's lifetime. He rebelled against his father and died young, Richard thus succeeded to their father's possessions. 13th Century CUI.FRATER.FUIT.COR.LEONIS.DICTUS.HENRICUS.IUNIOR.SEDEM.IN. NORMANNIA.ARMIS.IURIQUE.NEGATAM. AN.M.C.LXXXIII.A.MORTE.TANDEM.HIC.ABGRE.TENUIT. |
Rollo, Duke of
Normandy (c 933)This is a modern
copy of the effigy accidentally destroyed during
World War II by Henri le Jeune. IN.SINU.TEMPLI.ROLLO.QUIESCIT.A.SE.VASTATAE.CONDITAE. NORMANNIAE.PATER.AC.PRIMUS.DUX.LABORE.QUI.FRACTUS. OCCUBUIT.OCTOGENARIO.MAIOR.AN.CM.XX |
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John Duke of Bedford, Regent of France. He was Henry V's brother and became Regent of France on the death of Henry during the minority of the latter's son Henry VI. This latter Henry was crowned king of both England and France as a child, following the terms of the Treaty of Troyes between Henry V and the unfortunate Charles VI, the French king. The terms of this treaty were that Charles was to remain king during his lifetime but Henry V was to succeed him as king of France on the former's death; however Henry - a much younger man - died first... This stone marks the site of the Regent's grave. |
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| William Longsword, Duke of Normandy
(942) 13th Century H.S.E.GUILLELMUS.LONGA.DICTUS.SPATHA. NORMANNIAM.QUI.SUIS.ROLLONIS.FILIUS.STATUIT .IN.FINIBUS.PRODITORUM.INSIDUS.ANNO. CM.XLII.OCCISUS |
Hugh III of Amiens, Archbishop of Rouen (1164) - said to be the oldest recumbent effigy in France. |
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| De Brézé Tombs. To the left is a tomb of the late 15th C and the the right the tomb of 1536-1544 | The Cardinals d'Amboise (uncle and nephew), Archbishops of Rouen 1515-1525 | Archbishop Frédéric Fuzet (1899) By Gauquié(1918) |
1. Pierre (1465) & Joanne de Brézé . He was grand senechal of Anjou, Poitou and Normandy. Destroyed
2. Cardinal Gustave Maximillien Juste de Croy-Soire (1844) Archbishop of Rouen
3. Barbe Guiffard 17th century. Wife of Claude Groulard, 1st president of the parliament of Normandy. White marble. Originally in the Célestines of Rouen but moved here in 1865