Geoffrey Plantagenet enters Rouen

1144

Count Geoffrey of Anjou completed his conquest of Normandy by entering Rouen unopposed. For the first time Normandy was ruled separately from England, and by an Angevin. The stage was set for his son Henry II to unite both sides of the Channel. Geoffrey's careful, castle-by-castle conquest of the duchy took nearly a decade, demonstrating the patient methodical generalship his more famous son would inherit.