• Thumbnail for Bayeux
    Bayeux (French pronunciation: [bajø]) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry...
    17 KB (1,967 words) - 18:55, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bayeux Tapestry
    The Bayeux Tapestry (UK: /baɪˈjɜː, beɪ-/, US: /ˈbeɪjuː, ˈbaɪ-/; French: Tapisserie de Bayeux [tapisʁi də bajø] or La telle du conquest; Latin: Tapete Baiocense)...
    68 KB (8,410 words) - 10:47, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Odo of Bayeux
    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...
    10 KB (1,174 words) - 15:26, 13 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bayeux Cathedral
    Bayeux Cathedral, also known as Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayeux (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux), is a Roman Catholic church located in the town...
    5 KB (290 words) - 11:42, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harold Godwinson
    "The Authority and Interpretation of the Bayeux Tapestry". In Gameson, Richard (ed.). The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry. Boydell and Brewer. pp. 63–92....
    41 KB (4,799 words) - 02:48, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Poppa of Bayeux
    Poppa of Bayeux (French: [pɔpa d(ə) bɛjø]; born c. 880) was the wife more danico of the Viking leader Rollo. She was the mother of William I Longsword...
    7 KB (575 words) - 15:52, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bayeux Tapestry tituli
    The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry and describe scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These...
    23 KB (1,145 words) - 11:50, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux
    The Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux (Latin: Dioecesis Baiocensis et Lexoviensis; French: Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux) is a Latin Church diocese of the...
    50 KB (6,538 words) - 09:10, 21 April 2024
  • The Bayeux speeches are two speeches delivered by General Charles de Gaulle of France in the context of liberation after the Normandy landings in June...
    4 KB (393 words) - 02:43, 15 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bayeux, Paraíba
    Bayeux is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Presidente Castro Pinto International Airport which serves the state...
    5 KB (214 words) - 22:29, 18 February 2022
  • Siege of Bayeux may refer to: Siege of Bayeux (1106), the siege and capture of the town by King Henry I of England Siege of Bayeux (1415), the siege and...
    357 bytes (94 words) - 22:32, 12 January 2021
  • Bayeux Canton of Bayeux Gare de Bayeux Arrondissement of Bayeux Bayeux Cathedral Thomas of Bayeux Poppa of Bayeux Odo of Bayeux Bayeux Commonwealth War...
    705 bytes (113 words) - 22:02, 18 June 2012
  • Château de Bayeux was a castle in Bayeux, Normandy, France. Richard I of Normandy began construction of a castle at Bayeux in the 10th century. It became...
    2 KB (202 words) - 19:08, 13 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for William the Conqueror
    later married Herluin de Conteville, with whom she had two sons – Odo of Bayeux and Count Robert of Mortain – and a daughter whose name is unknown. One...
    100 KB (13,439 words) - 00:05, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Hastings
    the public. The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered narrative of the events leading up to Hastings probably commissioned by Odo of Bayeux soon after the...
    63 KB (7,911 words) - 13:55, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vital of Bayeux
    Vital of Bayeux was a knight of William the Conqueror, known from the Bayeux tapestry and the Domesday Book. Vital was one of three Norman knights named...
    799 bytes (67 words) - 08:47, 26 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Canton of Bayeux
    The canton of Bayeux is an administrative division of the Calvados department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
    4 KB (182 words) - 16:29, 8 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for University of Paris
    The University of Paris (French: Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne (French: [sɔʁbɔn]), was the leading university in Paris, France...
    60 KB (7,424 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bayeux station
    Gare de Bayeux is the station for the town of Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy. It is situated on the Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway. It is a small station...
    1 KB (89 words) - 05:12, 2 February 2023
  • Pointe Bayeux is a mountain of Haute-Savoie, France. It lies in the Mont Blanc Massif range. It has an altitude of 4258 metres above sea level. v t e...
    782 bytes (30 words) - 17:31, 19 April 2017
  •  950), Norman aristocrat Turold on the Bayeux Tapestry, a figure of uncertain identification depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry Turoldus, traditional author...
    638 bytes (114 words) - 01:28, 11 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Turold on the Bayeux Tapestry
    Turold is one of the tituli on the Bayeux tapestry. Which of two figure is being identified is uncertain, as is the identification of the namesake with...
    2 KB (288 words) - 17:21, 13 February 2024
  • Harald, Jarl of Bayeux or Harold was a pagan Norse chieftain who fought in support of Richard I, Duke of Normandy against Louis IV of France. He is mentioned...
    832 bytes (92 words) - 16:54, 7 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bayeux Manuscript
    The Bayeux Manuscript is an illustrated manuscript comprising one hundred three songs, collected by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon at the beginning of the...
    4 KB (457 words) - 17:47, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Middle Ages
    The Bayeux Tapestry (detail) showing William the Conqueror (centre), his half-brothers Robert, Count of Mortain (right) and Odo, Bishop of Bayeux in the...
    176 KB (21,056 words) - 15:00, 16 April 2024
  • Hugh of Ivry or Hugh of Bayeux (French: Hugues d'Ivry; 988 – 1049) was bishop of Bayeux and count of Ivry from the beginning of the 11th century. Hugh...
    6 KB (818 words) - 09:00, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Companions of William the Conqueror
    of Mortain (Source: The Bayeux Tapestry) (18) Wadard. Believed to be a follower of the Bishop of Bayeux (Source: The Bayeux Tapestry) (19) Vital. Believed...
    16 KB (1,963 words) - 23:33, 15 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for United Kingdom
    The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings, 1066, and the events leading to it....
    339 KB (29,534 words) - 22:12, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas of Bayeux
    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...
    28 KB (3,430 words) - 15:08, 7 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Patricius of Bayeux
    St. Patrice of Bayeux (Patricius) was the sixth bishop of Bayeux in the 5th century AD. Patrice de Bayeux was born in Bayeux[when?] in the suburb that...
    2 KB (261 words) - 21:44, 31 August 2022