Location of a famous tapestry

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There is no reliable portrait of him, nothing better than the heads on his coins and the conventional sketches of the Bayeux tapestry and the later documents.

There was the Queen: she is portrayed in the Bayeux tapestry at the foot of the bed, trying to warm her husband's feet in her lap.

Some of his choices were foreigners who were renowned for their learning, but some were members of his family who would do as they were told—most notable among them his half-brother Odo, who was as warlike as any Norman but was created Bishop of Bayeux, improbable though it seems, when he could not have been much older than thirteen.

It is not told at all in English chronicles, but every historian after the conquest told it—at least five Normans, including the designer of the Bayeux tapestry, and four of the rather later Anglo-Norman writers in England.

Some say it was sworn at Rouen, some at Bayeux and some at Bonneville.

The Bayeux tapestry shows the scene of the oath, with the holy relics, but says nothing about the promises.

The Bayeux tapestry shows him embarking at Bosham, and he is taking with him hawks and hounds.

Its chancel arch can be recognized, with a little imagination, in the Bayeux tapestry.

Among them were many men who became the great landlords of England, and some whose names run on through English history: his half-brothers Robert Count of Mortain and Odo Bishop of Bayeux.

The tapestry, a few years after that, is supposed to have been commissioned by William's half-brother Bishop Odo to decorate his new cathedral at Bayeux, and it gives Odo and some of his servants more prominence than they deserved.

The Bayeux tapestry shows the slaughter, on and around a little hillock that can still be seen in the lower part of the valley.

So he decided to take a chance on sending the message by a chain of couriers to Mercader in Bayeux.

From Gold troops headed for the cathedral town of Bayeux, roughly seven miles inland.

From Juno the Canadians drove for the Bayeux-Caen highway and Carpiquet Airport, about ten miles away.

His heart beat high when his father--still known in the town of Bayeux as the Comte de Granville--knocked loudly at a carriage gate off which the green paint was dropping in scales.