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11 A Connection with Bishop Odo of Bayeux
1 See Bernstein, Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry, Chapter 1, and the sources referred to therein.
2 William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi, p. 71; Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History, II, p. 135.
3 See Bernstein, Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry, p. 30 and the sources referred to therein.
4 Stothard, 'Some Observations on the Bayeux Tapestry'.
12 The Bayeux Tapestry and the Babylonian Conquest of the Jews
1 The biblical accounts are in 2 Chr. 36:17-21; 2 Kings 25:1-21; Jer. 41-2.
2 Ezek. 17:13-21.
3 Biblical references implicitly likening the Norman Conquest to the Babylonian Conquest of the Jews are made in The Life of King Edward (pp. 117-21) but no reference is explicitly made to Zedekiah's breach of oath, just as the author of the Life avoids explicitly mentioning Harold's perjury.
4 Bernstein, Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry, Part III.
5 Dan. 7:17.
6 Bernstein, Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry, p. 170.
7 Ibid., pp. 174ff. However, Hart, 'The Bayeux Tapestry and Schools of Illumination at Canterbury', also finds exemplars in Canterbury manuscripts.
8 Jer. 22:24, 22:28 and 37:1. However, the nickname does not appear to be used in the Vulgate Bible which would have been known to the artist and may also have been known only in Jewish writings.
9 However, Hart, 'The Bayeux Tapestry and Schools of Illumination at Canterbury', notes an exemplar for this scene in a Canterbury manuscript that illustrates a different biblical escape (OE Hexateuch; Joshua 2: 7-15).
10 William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi, p. 171.
11 Short, 'The Language of the Bayeux Tapestry Inscriptions'.
13 The Tanner's Grandsons
1 Bates, 'The Character and Career of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux'; biographies of William the Conqueror by Douglas, Bates and de Bouard.
2 Benoi't, Chronique des dues de Normandie, II, lines 33445ff.; Wace, Roman de Roy, III, lines 2824ff.
3 Benoi't and Wace have the tree cast its shade over Normandy; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, p. 427, has it cover England as well.
4 William of Jumieges, Gesta Normannorum, p. 125; Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History, IV, p. 102.
5 Bates, William the Conqueror, p. 124, notes that the bones in her grave were despoiled in the sixteenth century and, therefore, it is not certain that they are hers.
6 Bates, William the Conqueror, p. 53.
14 The Scion of Charlemagne
1 Tanner, 'Counts of Boulogne' 'Between Scylla and Charybdis'.
2 Genealogia Comitum Boloniensium.
3 Platts, Origins of Heraldry (p. 28) also notes a descent from Charlemagne through the emperor's favourite daughter Bertha and the poet-courtier Angilbert. A quite different lineage in the male line for Count Eustace II of Boulogne is given by Baigent et al., The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, linking him to the so-called Grail family and the curious story of Rennes-le-Château. This makes Eustace IPs paternal grandfather, not Count Baldwin I of Boulogne, but one Hughes de Plantard. Although this is dubious and not supported by any contemporary documentary evidence, it has been taken up by a number of other writers of the 'alternative' history genre. Strangely the Bayeux Tapestry, for all its suggestive imagery, has remained an untapped resource for such writers.
4 William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi, p. 185; Carmen, p. 31; Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History, II, p. 206.
5 Chiefly Tanner, 'Counts of Boulogne'. Her book on the subject, Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879-c. 1162, had not yet been published at the time of writing this book.
6 The episode and its sources are fully discussed in Barlow, Edward the Confessor, pp. 45ff. For Eustace's marriages, see also pp. 307ff.
7 Barlow, Edward the Confessor, pp. 307ff, suggests that there may, after all, have been issue.
8 Barlow, The Godwins, pp. 40ff.
9 Tanner, 'Counts of Boulogne', p. 268.
10 Morton and Muntz, Carmen, p. xxxix.
11 From charter evidence; Bates, William the Conqueror, p. 82.
12 William of Poitiers,