Vendôme Chapel, Chartres cathedral

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Vendôme Chapel is a chapel built in the southern collateral of Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral. This flamboyant 15th-century Gothic chapel presents an obvious contrast with the primitive Gothic of the rest of the nave, built and decorated in the 13th century.

The chapel was built by Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme following his vow of May 31, 1413, while he was at Chartres on a pilgrimage of thanksgiving for being liberated from the captivity where his brother Jacques de Bourbon, Count of the Marche, partisan of the Bourguignons held him. During this pilgrimage, the Prince of Vendôme participates in the processions and celebrations of the cathedral chapter for Ascension. On 2 June, he founded solemn services and declared that he wished to erect a chapel in the nave. By a capitular act of 2 December 1414, the Canons allowed the Count of Vendôme to build the hors d'oeuvre chapel on the cathedral. The chapel was taken by cutting down the wall of the south collateral of the cathedral, framing the construction between the two foothills of the fifth span. After the Battle of Azincourt, where Louis de Bourbon was again made...