| Sumario: | In 1067, John of Ivry, son of Rodulf, count of Ivry, became archbishop of Rouen. Previously bishop of Avranches, his episcopate was fundamental to the restoration of ducal authority in western Normandy, and key to the reintegration of his diocese into the Norman ecclesiastical mainstream. His archiepiscopate is notable for its conciliar, judicial, literary and political legacy, yet is frequently overshadowed by the exploits of his contemporaries, Odo, bishop of Bayeux, and Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances. A comprehensive analysis of his career contributes not only to our understanding of the eleventh-century Norman church, but also to that of ducal Normandy itself.
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