Location:
France
Coordinates:
49.4423, 1.0999
Events at Rouen (5)
1087
ID: 2591
September 9, 1087
Death of William the Conqueror - dies from injury falling from horse, buried at Caen
ID: 2591
1203
ID: 2388
Murder of Arthur of Brittany - John allegedly kills his nephew with his own hands at Rouen, turns barons against him
ID: 2388
1204
ID: 2389
Loss of Normandy - Philip Augustus takes Château Gaillard and Rouen, John loses ancestral Angevin lands, earns nickname 'Lackland'
ID: 2389
1204
ID: 5204
Philip Augustus takes Normandy - captures Rouen, ends 300 years of Norman control, John Lackland flees
ID: 5204
1419
ID: 2478
January 19, 1419
Fall of Rouen - six-month siege ends with Norman capital surrendering, 12,000 civilians dead from starvation
ID: 2478