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The Musée de Beaux-Arts
houses these two magnificent tombs of
the Dukes of Burgundy. Left:
Phillip the Bold
(1342-1404) by
Jean de Marville, Claus
Sluter & Claus de Werve. Right: his son
John the
Fearless (1371-1419) & Marguerite de Bavière
by
Jean de La Huerta & Antoine Le Moiturier. Both of black
marble and alabaster, gilded and polychrome. |
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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
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ROUEN |
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CATHEDRAL |
| 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 |
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 |
Rollo, Duke of
Normandy This is a modern
copy of the effigy accidentally destroyed during World
War II |
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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
14th Century |
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Hugh
of Amiens, Archbishop of Rouen
12th Century - said to be the oldest recumbent effigy
in France. |
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Lady
Chapel
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St
Joan of Arc's Chapel
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De Brézé Tombs.
To the left is a tomb of the late
15th C and the the right to tomb of 1536-1544
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The Cardinals d'Amboise (uncle
and nephew), Archbishops of Rouen 1515-1525
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Archbishop Fuzet (1899)
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