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England. Roger was originally priest of a small chapel near Caen in Normandy. He was called "Roger, priest of the church of Avranches", in his notification...

Caen (UK: /ˈkɒ̃ ˈkɒn/; French: [kɑ̃] ; Norman: Kaem) is a commune 15 km (9.3 mi) inland from the northwestern coast of France. It is the prefecture of...

Castle)) was constructed in the 12th century as the fortified palace of Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of England. In the early 1140s,...

a hundred of the same name for many centuries. In the 12th century Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of England, built a fortified palace...

Roger Apéry (French: [apeʁi]; 14 November 1916, Rouen – 18 December 1994, Caen) was a French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, which states...

Old Sarum) remained the nominal head of the abbey until 1122, when Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury, made the abbey independent. From 1122 until dissolution...

de la famille de Beaumont, thèse de doctorat de troisième cycle, Université de Caen, 1986–1987 (dactyl.), p.67-73. L'abbé de Bernay, Raoul, parent de...

The Battle for Caen (June to August 1944) is the name given to fighting between the British Second Army and the German Panzergruppe West in the Second...

website Source: Ouest-France, Rue Roger-Bastion à Caen : cinq ans après la mort de Nathan, les riverains veulent plus de sécurité routière "Frankreich" [France]...

jardin des plantes de Caen (French for: 'Garden of the Plants of Caen'), also known as jardin botanique de Caen ('Botanical Garden of Caen') is a botanical...

In the grounds of a mansion, it was built as the fortified palace of Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of England, and still belonged to...

Gloucester (c. 1090 – 31 October 1147) (alias Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen (Latinised to Robertus de Cadomo), Robert Consul) was an illegitimate son of King Henry...

1964 in Caen) is a contemporary French writer, the winner of the Prix Roger Nimier in 2000 for his novel Écume Palace and the Prix Henri de Régnier in...

brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux. All that is known...

Roger of Argences or Roger d'Argences (died 1139), also known as Roger de Bayeux (Latin: Rogerius Baiocensis), was the fourth abbot of Fécamp Abbey, appointed...

sons, Nigel and Robert. Roger also had at least one daughter, donating his lands at Granville to the Abbaye aux Dames in Caen when she became a nun there...

Hermanville, near Caen, the son of Roger Sarasin, treasurer-general at Caen. He was educated at Caen, and later settled in Paris. As a writer of vers de société...

les frontières de la haute Normandie: identité et construction d'une principauté (1st ed.). Caen: Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen (colloque "Bibliothèque...

Napoleon Bonaparte. Moulin was born in Caen, Calvados. In his youth he was educated at the Collège des Jésuites at Caen, eventually taking employment as an...

important abbey in the Diocese of Bayeux after the Abbey of Saint-Étienne in Caen. It housed forty monks by the 13th century, who played a major part in reclaiming...