Parlement of Rouen

Following letters patent of 1507 from Louis XII, the archbishop of Rouen and the abbot of Saint-Ouen were 'ex officio' honorary councillors to the parlement.

Until 1 October 1506, the parlement of Normandy sat in the château de Rouen then in the palais (which was begun in 1499 and only completed long afterwards).

Charles IX was declared of age at the parlement, accompanied by chancellor Michel de L'Hospital.

Banned again in 1639, for not having opposed the revolt of the va-nu-pieds strongly enough, it as replaced by commissaires from the parlement de Paris until its reestablishment in January 1641.

[1] In April 1545, Francis I had set up a criminal chamber here to judge cases relating to Protestants, which was replaced by a chambre de l’édit, as part of the execution of the edict of Nantes of April 1598, suppressed in its turn in January 1685 as part of the edict of Fontainebleau.