Masson, André, L’église abbatiale Saint-Ouen de Rouen, avec une étude sur les vitraux par Jean
Lafond. Paris: Laurens, 1927.
Mollat, Michel. Histoire de Rouen. Toulouse: Privat, 1979.
Naillon, Edgard. Églises de Rouen. Rouen, 1941.
Périaux, Nicetas. Histoire sommaire et chronologique de la ville de Rouen. Brionne: Manoir de
Saint Pierre de Salerne, 1874.
ROUERGUE
. From the period of the Carolingians, the region of the Rouergue formed an important
and extensive county. Centered on the city of Rodez, it reached north to Conques, south
to the towns of Saint-Félix-de-Sorgues and Sylvanès, west to include Najac and the
viscounty of Saint-Antonin, and east to include the viscounty of Millau. In the 9th
century, the Rouergue came under the authority of the counts of Toulouse. Separated
from the Toulousain by a division of inheritance in 919, it was recovered by Raymond de
Saint-Gilles in 1066 and reunited with the other domains of the elder branch of the
family.
At the end of the 11th century, two centers of power emerged in the Rouergue: the
viscounty of Millau and the county of Rodez. Viscounts of Millau appear as early as 920.
By 1080, they had added to their possessions the Gévaudan, Carlat, and Lodève.
Viscount Gilbert (r. 1092–1108), through his marriage to the heiress Gerberge, added the
county of Provence, and his daughter, Dulcia, passed these extensive domains to her
husband, Raymond-Berenguer, count of Barcelona. Until 1222, Millau and its territories
formed a spearhead for the penetration of the house of Barcelona into Languedoc. At the
same time, Richard de Lodève, brother of viscount Gilbert, was recognized as the first
count of Rodez (ca. 1112).
The crisis of the Albigensian Crusade had little impact on the Rouergue, where Count
Henri I of Rodez submitted to Simon de Montfort in 1214. Control of the Rouergue and
Millau passed to Alphonse of Poitiers and thence to the crown of France. The line of the
counts of Rodez continued until 1312, when its heiress, Cécile, was succeeded by her
husband, Bernard VI, count of Armagnac. The Treaty of Brétigny in 1360 assigned the
Rouergue to the English, who administered it until 1368. The downfall of the counts of
Armagnac in 1473 prepared the way for the restoration of the county of Rodez to the
crown, a reunion consummated with the accession of King Henry IV.
Alan Friedlander
[See also: LANGUEDOC; SAINT-GILLES]
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Enjalbert, Henri. Histoire de Rodez. Toulouse: Privat, 1981.
——. Histoire de Rouergue. Toulouse: Privat, 1979.
Ourliac, Paul, and Anne-Marie Magnou. Le cartulaire de La Selve, La Terre, les hommes et le
pouvoir en Rouergue au XIIe siècle. Paris: CNRS, 1985.
Rouquette, Joseph. Le Rouergue sous les Anglais. Millau: Artières and Maury, 1887.
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