Bayeux (French pronunciation: [bajø]) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry...
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The Bayeux Tapestry (UK: /baɪˈjɜː, beɪ-/, US: /ˈbeɪjuː, ˈbaɪ-/ B(A)Y-yoo; French: Tapisserie de Bayeux [tapisʁi də bajø] or La telle du conquest; Latin:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bayeux Canton of Bayeux Gare de Bayeux Arrondissement of Bayeux Bayeux Cathedral Thomas of Bayeux Poppa of Bayeux Odo of Bayeux Bayeux Commonwealth War...
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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...
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"The Authority and Interpretation of the Bayeux Tapestry". In Gameson, Richard (ed.). The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry. Boydell and Brewer. pp. 63–92....
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Bayeux is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Presidente Castro Pinto International Airport which serves the state...
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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...
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The Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux (Latin: Dioecesis Baiocensis et Lexoviensis; French: Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux) is a Latin Church diocese of the...
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The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry and describe scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These...
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The Bayeux speeches are two different speeches delivered by General Charles de Gaulle of France in the context of liberation after the Normandy landings...
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Bayeux station (French: Gare de Bayeux) is the train station for the town of Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy. It is situated on the Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg...
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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...
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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...
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The Bayeux Manuscript is an illustrated manuscript comprising one hundred three songs, collected by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon at the beginning of the...
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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...
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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...
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University of Paris (redirect from Collège de Bayeux)
The University of Paris (French: Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne (French: [sɔʁbɔn]), was the leading university in Paris, France...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Turold (disambiguation) (redirect from Turold of Bayeux)
950), Norman aristocrat Turold on the Bayeux Tapestry, a figure of uncertain identification depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry Turoldus, traditional author...
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Duke of Normandy, and also of William's prominent half-brothers Odo of Bayeux and Robert, Count of Mortain, born to Herleva's marriage to Herluin de Conteville...
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The canton of Bayeux is an administrative division of the Calvados department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
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The Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located in Bayeux, Normandy. The cemetery contains...
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of the Bayeux Tapestry showing William the Conqueror (centre) and his half-brothers, Robert, Count of Mortain (right) and Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, in the...
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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...
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The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings, 1066, and the events leading to it....
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