Bayeux Tapestry

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Bayeux Tapestry

• Kristen Leppik
• XI A

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Bayeux Tapestry

• 50cm by 70m embroidered cloth.
• Explains the events leading up to the Norman
  Conquest of England as well as the events of the
  invasion itself.
• Annotated in Latin.
• Earliest reference in 1476.

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• The Two combatants are the Anglo-Saxon English,
  led by Harold Godwinson and the Normans, led by
  William the Conqueror.
• French legend maintained the tapestry was
  commissioned and created by Queen Matilda.
• Currently exhibited in Bayeux Museum, France.

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