[3] It is wrongly claimed[1] that Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy and future king of England, married Eleanor of Aquitaine at the cathedral in 1152.

In 1226, a fire damaged the cathedral and bishop Guillaume Du Pont-de-L'Arche added to the repairs three ambulatory chapels.

[4] Having been involved in the trial of Joan of Arc, Pierre Cauchon was named as Bishop of Lisieux in 1432 and is buried there.

The cathedral survived World War II wholly intact, although the town suffered Allied bombing in 1944.

From the outset, the architect designed quadripartite rib vaults and flying buttresses, making it one of Normandy’s first Gothic buildings.