For 10 points, what historical region of France was the base for the 1066 conquest of England and the target of a 1944 Allied invasion?
This region included the abbey of Fecamp, which was rebuilt by the Lombard churchman William of Volpiano. One historian who revised a work by William of Jumieges to create a "myth" about this region was Orderic Vitalis. Knights born in this region included a man who became count of Aversa, Rainulf, and a man who killed the emir of Syracuse and won the nicknamed "Iron Arm," William de Hauteville. Philip Augustus seized this region in 1204, taking it away from a king who was derisively called "Softsword." It became a duchy early in the tenth century, when Frankish ruler Charles the Simple granted it to Rollo, a Viking chief. For 10 points, what historical region of France was the base for the 1066 conquest of England and the target of a 1944 Allied invasion?
This region included the abbey of Fecamp, which was rebuilt by the Lombard churchman William of Volpiano.
Normandy