The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long and 50 centimetres tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William, Duke of Normandy challenging Harold II, King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. It is thought to date to the 11th century, within a few years of the battle. Now widely accepted to have been made in England, perhaps as a gift for William, it tells the story from the point of view of the conquering Normans and for centuries has been preserved in Normandy.
Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.
Saint-Manvieu-Norrey is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
The Diocese of Coutances (–Avranches) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Its mother church is the Cathedral of Coutance in the commune of Coutances in France. The diocese is suffragan of the Archbishop of Rouen and comprises the entire department of Manche. It was enlarged in 1802 by the addition of the former Diocese of Avranches and of two archdeaconries from the Diocese of Bayeux. Since 1854 its bishops have held the title of Bishop of Coutances (–Avranches).
The Diocese of Séez is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Originally established in the 3rd century, the diocese encompasses the department of Orne in the region of Normandy. The episcopal see is the cathedral in Sées, and the diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Rouen.
The Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is coextensive with the Department of Calvados and is a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rouen, also in Normandy.
Avranches Cathedral was once a Roman Catholic cathedral in Avranches in Normandy.
The former French Catholic Diocese of Noyon lay in the north-east of France, around Noyon. It was formed when Saint Medardus moved the seat of the bishopric at Vermandois to Noyon, in the sixth century. From 545 to 1146, it was united with the bishopric of Tournai as the Diocese of Noyon–Tournai. Then in the twelfth century it was again independent, and the bishop of Noyon became a pairie-comté of France.
Saint Vigor was a French bishop and Christian missionary.
Jean Lemoine, Jean Le Moine, Johannes Monachus was a French canon lawyer, Cardinal, bishop of Arras and papal legate. He served Boniface VIII as representative to Philip IV of France, and founded the Collège du Cardinal Lemoine, in Paris. He is the first canon lawyer to formulate the legal principle of the presumption of innocence.
Cerisy Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of Saint Vigor, located in Cerisy-la-Forêt, Manche, France, was an important Benedictine monastery of Normandy.
Turold de Brémoy was Bishop of Bayeux in the 12th century.
Loup de Bayeux, saint Loup or sometimes saint Leu was a bishop of Bayeux between 440 and 470.
Regnobert of Bayeux, Regnobertus in Latin, also transcribed in Renobert, Rénobert, Rennobert or Raimbert, was the twelfth bishop of Bayeux and a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church in the 7th century.
Gérétran of Bayeux, also known as Geretrandus, was bishop of Bayeux in the 5th century. He is considered a pre-congregational saint by the Roman Catholic Church, though because of the unstable times in which he lived, very little is known of his life.
Raoul d'Avranches (Radulfus) was a bishop of Bayeux at the end of the 10th century and the beginning of the 11th century.
Henri de Pardieu was a bishop of Bayeux at the end of the 12th century (1165-1205).
Eudes de Lorris, de Lory or de Lorry was Bishop of Bayeux in France from 1263 to his death.
Frambold or sometimes Franbolt, Frambaud, Franbourd was the fifteenth bishop of Bayeux around 691 to 720. The life of Saint Frambold remains mysterious. The place and date of his birth are unknown. Robert Cénalis, bishop of Avranches in the sixteenth century said of him only that "his holiness spread a lively radiance". He had been a monk and abbot of the diocese of Mans.
