Who made the Bayeux Tapesty?

Answer 1

It was made for William of Normandy or William the conqueror.

Answer 2

The Bayeux Tapestry tells the tale of William the Conqueror's invasion of England through pictorial panels. We do not know for certain who commissioned the tapestry, though the likeliest candidate is William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux from 1050-1097, or one of Odo's followers. It was probably stitched by a lady of nobility along with her servants and maids.

Answer 3

According to legend, the Bayeux Tapestry was ordered by Queen Matilda, the wife of William the conqueror, and was embroidered by her ladies in waiting.

There is a theory that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo, the half brother of William.

The needle work in the tapestry is typical of Anglo-Saxon embroidery of the time, and so it may have been made by embroiderers living in England.

Answer 4

The Bayeux Tapestry, Norman: La telle du conquest) is an embroidered cloth-not an actual tapestry-nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long (as long as 3 Swimming Pools!)

which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England who William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, in The Battle of Hastings.

It is embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns. It is likely that it was commissioned by bishop odo, William's half-brother, and made in England-not Bayeux-in the 1070s. In 1729 the hanging was rediscovered by scholars at a time when it was being displayed annually in Bayeux Cathedral. The tapestry is now exhibited at Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux, normandy, France.

Answer 5

It is generally accepted by historians that Bishop Odo (William's brother) was responsible for supervising the manufacture of the "Bayeux" embroidery, but exactly who carried out the work is a matter of debate. Odo ensured that he had a prominent appearance in the finished work.

There are some clues in the wording which runs the full length of the piece; it is all in Latin, but naturally the Norman and English names of people and places are distinctive.

It seems unlikely that the work was done by Norman hands: whoever wrote the name of William was unfamiliar with it and did not know how to spell that name correctly - it appears in about six or seven different spellings. Whoever wrote the names of Harold Godwinson's brothers (Girth and Leofwine) was veryfamiliar with English spellings and included the letters "thorn" and "eth", which were not used in Norman French.

There are also some clever "digs" at the Normans which are carefully hidden in the borders of the embroidery. One shows a nude Norman priest apparently involved in an intimate affair with an English lady.

All of these elements may indicate that English seamstresses did the work under Norman control and it has been suggested that the needlewomen of Canterbury in Kent are the likely candidates, since they had a reputation at the time for the quality of their embroidery work.

The embroiderers were certainly not nuns, since for them the depiction of detailed nude figures would have been unthinkable.

Answer 6

the bayeux tapestry was made by william the conquerer's wife and a number of other ladies

Answer 7

William the Conqueror's half brother Odo ordered the Bayeux Tapestry to be made.

Answer 8

It was made by the Norman women whom King William paid to make the Bayeux tapestry

Answer 9

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