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King Edward the Confessor sends Harold to Normandy, Bayeux Tapestry (wool embroidery on linen)

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King Edward the Confessor sends Harold to Normandy, Bayeux Tapestry (wool embroidery on linen)
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English School, (11th century) / English
Location
Musée de la Tapisserie, Bayeux, France
Medium
wool embroidery on linen
Date
c. 1070 AD (C11th AD)
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Sewn by English women probably in Kent to a Norman brief, the embroidery illustrates the events leading to the Norman invasion and conquest of England by an army led by Duke William of Normandy and the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Scene 1. Edward Rex ubi Harold Dux (Anglorum) In his palace, Edward the Confessor (c. 1003-66) King of England instructs his wife's brother Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex, to go to Normandy

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With special authorisation of the city of Bayeux / Bridgeman Images
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