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Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Ep1: When, where and why was the Tapestry made?

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The Bia Tapestry - Episode Free

The bia tapestry shows earl harold swearing an oath on holy relics to duke william in normandy. Other documentary narratives sources of the period go into a lot more detail about what this oath might have been. We delve into the link between the tapestry and these other written sources in much more detail in episode free of this series. Michael is about to lay out the case for bishop odo, the half brother of d Duke william,. You'll also hear references to king edward the confessor, who, as you will know, was the english king whose childless death at the start of ten 66 precipitated first the succession of harold to the

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