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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 the ...
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 ...
Detail of embroidered lettering. The Bayeux Tapestry was probably commissioned by William the Conqueror's half-brother, Bishop Odo, possibly at the same time as Bayeux Cathedral's construction in the 1070s, and completed by 1077 in time for display on the cathedral's dedication. [1]
Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, fighting at Hastings, holding a club. Legend above: Hic Odo Eps (Episcopus) Baculu(m) Tenens Confortat Pueros, "Here Odo the Bishop holding a club gives strength to the boys." The club may reflect his clerical status which might have precluded the shedding of blood by sword, [ 6 ] yet in the same scene Duke William ...
Roger de Beaumont (c. 1015 – 29 November 1094), feudal lord (French: seigneur) of Beaumont-le-Roger and of Pont-Audemer in Normandy, was a powerful Norman nobleman and close advisor to William the Conqueror. Bearded Norman nobleman depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1066), possibly representing Roger de Beaumont (died 1094).
Hugues (d. 730) was simultaneously bishop of two other sees, Paris and Rouen. Odo of Bayeux (1050–97), brother of William the Conqueror, built the cathedral and was present at the Battle of Hastings. He was imprisoned in 1082 for attempting to lead an expedition to Italy to overthrow Pope Gregory VII, and died as a crusader in Sicily.
Muriel. Thomas of Bayeux (died 18 November 1100) was Archbishop of York from 1070 until 1100. He was educated at Liège and became a royal chaplain to Duke William of Normandy, who later became King William I of England. After the Norman Conquest, the king nominated Thomas to succeed Ealdred as Archbishop of York.
Robert was the son of Herluin de Conteville and Herleva of Falaise and brother of Odo of Bayeux. [1] Robert was born c. 1031 in Normandy, a half-brother of William the Conqueror. [2] and was probably not more than a year or so younger than his brother Odo, born c. 1030. [1][3] About 1035, Herluin, as Vicomte of Conteville, along with his wife ...