instructing his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson to travel to Normandy to offer the throne to William, a distant cousin, according to the Bayeux Tapestry Museum, which houses the artwork.

Duke of Normandy defeated an English army led by Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson. The battle set in motion the Norman conquest of England, an event which profoundly affected European history. The ...

It was commissioned to mark William the Conqueror's victory over Harold Godwinson. Tapestries are wonderful works of art woven on a loom. The famous Bayeux Tapestry, however, is an embroidery made ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, and shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. By reinterpreting ...

To top it off, William declared that in 1064, Harold Godwinson had sworn loyalty to him on sacred relics, as illustrated on the greatest of all surviving Norman records, the Bayeux Tapestry.

Edward the Confessor sends Harold Godwinson to Normandy in this scene from the Bayeux Tapestry. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The 230-foot-long tapestry—which is, in fact, an embroidered ...