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The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry. The Bayeux Tapestry is a beautiful and rare source. Like all tapestries it is a piece of thick cloth that has been stitched with many colourful threads. It must have taken months and months to make and was finished over 800 years ago!.

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The Bayeux Tapestry

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  1. The Bayeux Tapestry

  2. The Bayeux Tapestry is a beautiful and rare source. Like all tapestries it is a piece of thick cloth that has been stitched with many colourful threads. It must have taken months and months to make and was finished over 800 years ago!

  3. Historians think that the tapestry was made as soon after the Battle of Hastings as possible by people living in the town of Bayeux in Normandy (France). You can travel to Bayeux today and see the real thing!

  4. The Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of William’s invasion of England. It begins by showing how Edward the Confessor sent Harold to Normandy to promise the crown to William and it ends with Harold’s death at Hastings.

  5. Historians are not exactly sure who ordered the tapestry to be made. Some think that it was William’s wife, Matilda who wanted to celebrate her husband’s success.

  6. Most think that it was William’s brother Odo who paid for it to be made. Odo was the Bishop of Bayeux and he himself appears many times in the tapestry for example: blessing the food before the Norman knights set sail to England …

  7. … Giving advice to William before they set sail to Normandy

  8. and even commanding some of the cavalry at Hastings!!!

  9. Some Thoughtful Questions A) What do you think William would not have wanted on the Bayeux Tapestry? B) Why do you think that the Tapestry has survived for so long? C) What do you think it shows about William that the Tapestry is kept in France?

  10. True or False? Historians find out about the past by using sauces

  11. True or False? Historians find out about the past by using sources

  12. True or False? Sources can be trusted to tell the truth

  13. True or False? Harold, Earl of Wessex, promised to serve William as King of England

  14. True or False? Harold rather than William should have been King of England

  15. Why do historians argue?

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