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  2. Bayeux Tapestry - Wikipedia

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    A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo rallying Duke William's army during the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Bayeux Tapestry [a] is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 feet) long and 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall [1] that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William, Duke of Normandy challenging Harold II, King of England ...

  3. Bayeux Tapestry tituli - Wikipedia

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    The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry and describe scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These depict events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy , and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England , and culminating in the Battle of Hastings .

  4. Odo of Bayeux - Wikipedia

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    Odo of Bayeux (died 1097) was Bishop of Bayeux in Normandy and was also made Earl of Kent in England following the Norman Conquest. He was the maternal half-brother of duke, and later king, William the Conqueror , and was, for a time, William's primary administrator in the Kingdom of England, although he was eventually tried for defrauding ...

  5. Origin of coats of arms - Wikipedia

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    Pa 2] Coats of arms did not yet exist at the time the Bayeux tapestry was embroidered, in the last third of the 11th century, since the figures depicted on combatants' shields vary for the same character, and, conversely, some use the same shields. [1] [Ha 1] [Pa 1] [Pa 3] [Ai 1] Nor are the emblems used on the coats of arms in the 11th century ...

  6. Companions of William the Conqueror - Wikipedia

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    The Bayeux Tapestry, an annotated pictorial representation of the Norman Conquest. It was probably made in Canterbury, shortly after the event in the 11th century (many figures on the tapestry can be shown to have been copied from figures on manuscripts known to have been in Canterbury at the time).

  7. Bayeux Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    Bayeux Cathedral, also known as Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayeux (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux), is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Bayeux in Normandy, France. A national monument , it is the seat of the Bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux and was probably the original home of the Bayeux Tapestry , still preserved nearby.

  8. Wadard - Wikipedia

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    Wadard was an 11th-century Norman nobleman who is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. Wadard was a noble who travelled to England in 1066 with Duke William of Normandy. He is depicted and named in the Bayeux Tapestry on a foraging expedition, and may have been in the logistics section of William's army.

  9. Guy I, Count of Ponthieu - Wikipedia

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    Guy capturing Harold, scene 7 of the Bayeux Tapestry Harold swearing the oath, scene 23 of the Bayeux Tapestry In 1064, Harold Godwinson, the Earl of Wessex, was shipwrecked on the shores of Ponthieu and captured by Count Guy who took him to his castle of Beaurain on the river Canche, as the Bayeux Tapestry relates: hic apprehendit wido Haroldum et duxit em ad Belrem et ibi eum tenuit ("Here ...