The tapestry ... between Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon king, and William, Duke of Normandy, for control over the throne of England following a succession crisis when King Edward the Confessor ...

The Bayeux Tapestry ... and his defeat of Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king, at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. (See “Unfolding the Bayeux Tapestry,” January/February ...

Detail of scene 47: The Latin text reads “Here King Harold was slain.” In the next, and last scene, the English flee. At its home at UNG, the Bayeux Tapestry Replica achieves the educational mission ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most treasured ... there is Queen Edith (the sister of Harold Godwinson and widow of the previous King Edward the Confessor), an anonymous woman fleeing from ...

Edward 'the Confessor' was an important Anglo-Saxon king. He was later known as ... is captured in the Bayeux Tapestry. The first thing to say about the Bayeux Tapestry is that it’s not ...

Explore how the drama of 1066 and the Battle of Hastings, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry ... blowing history. Did Edward the Confessor promise the throne of England to William of Normandy, or was ...