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Chartres Cathedral Chartres, France

-1th cent. BCE: According to legend, a pagan sacred spring and shrine to a mother goddess exists on the site (historians doubt the shrine but confirm a sacred well)

Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France location
911 CE: Chartres is besieged by Vikings led by Rollo(n); Bishop Gantelme orders the relic shown from the ramparts; the army flees; Rollo converts and becomes the first Duke of Normandy

Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France location
c. 980 CE: Fulbert of Reims arrives in Chartres to lead the cathedral school, which becomes one of the major education centers in Europe

Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France location
1119: King Louis VI prepares to attack Chartres, where his enemy is camped; a procession of clergy with the *Sancta Camisa* changes his mind

Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France location