The story begins in 1064 when Edward the Confessor, the king of England, sends his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson to offer his cousin William, the Duke of Normandy, the succession to the English ...

The story begins in 1064 when Edward the Confessor, the king of England, sends his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson to offer his cousin William, the Duke of Normandy, the succession to the English ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in Britain next year for the first time in 900 years.

The story begins in 1064 when Edward the Confessor, the king of England, sends his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson to offer his cousin William, the Duke of Normandy, the succession to the English ...

The conflict allowed William the Conqueror to take the throne from Harold Godwinson to become the first Norman king of England.

Second in size is the steed of Harold Godwinson, the Anglo-Saxon king of England. Third comes the horse of Odo of Bayeux, William’s half-brother, who is often credited with commissioning the ...