Harold then goes back to England and has another meeting with Edward the Confessor. The tapestry does not explain precisely what the nature of the oath is, but other Norman-inclined sources tell us that Harold was swearing to be William’s man in England and to uphold his bid to be king on Edward’s death. Harold’s time in Normandy ends with him making an oath to William on holy relics. William the Conqueror: hero or villain?.Curiously, they then head off together on a military adventure in Brittany, which Harold seems to enthusiastically take part in. He is shipwrecked and captured by a local nobleman there, and then is transferred into the hands of the powerful Duke William of Normandy. The upshot of that conversation is that Harold sets off on a ship to France. The action actually starts a couple of years before the set-piece battle of Hastings, with a discussion between England’s King, Edward the Confessor, and his leading noble (who was also his brother-in-law), Harold Godwinson. Q: What story does the Bayeux Tapestry tell? Here David Musgrove, content director of HistoryExtra, answers some of the biggest questions surrounding about the Bayeux Tapestry.
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