barrel-vaulted tribune projects one bay between the towers. Within the now roofless nave
(which was originally timber and painted), a three-story elevation with arcade, triforium,
and clerestory marches on alternating rectangular compound and columnar piers. Only
the west wall of the transept tower records its original great height. Apart from the
northwest wall of the north transept, very little of the transept arms survives. The east end
was rebuilt in the 13th century (1267–78), but archaeological evidence suggests that the
11th-century transepts ended in apsidal chapels and the choir had an ambulatory with-out
radiating chapels. A few figural capitals are in the abbey museum.
A passage and chapter house join Notre-Dame and Saint-Pierre. The western wall and
two bays of Saint-Pierre date to the 10th century, and the rest of the structure is 13th-
century. A second-story wall passage at the west end and rectilinear east end contains the
long, aisleless nave. Of conventual buildings at Saint-Pierre, the 12th-century chapter
house, lodgings, and cellars remain.
Founded at the beginning of the 12th century, the parish church of Saint-Valentine
held relics of its patron saint from Jumièges. A façade pierced by six windows leads to
the six-bay nave with plain arcade, clerestory windows, wooden roof—all Romanesque—
and 16th-century choir. The nearby church of Yainville belonged to the monks of
Jumièges and shares its 1 1th-century date. Although comparatively small, the church
shares an imposing central tower and solidity with Notre-Dame.
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JUVENAL DES URSINS
. The name Juvenal des Ursins was assumed by the sons of Jean Jouvenal (1360–1431), a
prominent official of Charles VI and Charles VII. They claimed descent from a
Neapolitan branch of the Orsini family of Rome. The new name appeared by 1410 and
had completely supplanted the old one by 1438. Jean Jouvenal’s origins cannot be
proved. He came from Troyes, studied civil law at Orléans, was prévôt des marchands in
Paris (1389–1400), and served as royal lawyer in the Parlement and councillor of Charles
VI and of the dukes of Berry, Burgundy, and Orléans. His important role in quelling the
Cabochien uprising of 1413 won him the post of chancellor to the duke of Guyenne. He
remained Guyenne’s councillor after his replacement as chancellor in 1415.
Jean was a high official in the Cour des Aides (1415–18) but left Paris when it fell to
the Burgundians in 1418 and joined the cause of the dauphin (later Charles VII).
Thereafter, he held high positions in the parlements of Poitiers and Toulouse. He
acquired a barony by 1407 and was knighted by 1420.
Jean Jouvenal and Michelle de Vitry had eleven children who survived infancy, four
of whom attained prominence. Jean (1388–1473), best known as the author of a chronicle
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