1. Bayeux Tapestry
Kristen Leppik
XI A

2. 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.

4. 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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