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Turold On The Bayeux Tapestry
''Turold'' is one of the ''tituli'' on the Bayeux tapestry. Which of two figure is being identified is uncertain, as is the identification of the namesake with a known historical person. He may be the same person as Turold of Rochester. Appearance on the Bayeux Tapestry The tapestry mentions a small number of important figures by name. When they are mentioned, their name is depicted directly above their head. For this reason, some believe that Turold is not the messenger in red who would later become Constable of Bayeux, but the man who appears to have a form of dwarfism and is holding the messenger's horse's reins. It should also be noted that Turold was a common name at the time of the creation of the tapestry, and it is possible that both figures bear the name "Turold". Turoldus in the ''Song of Roland'' The dwarf figure appears to be a ''jongleur'' or minstrel based on his wide breeches and flared tunic, leading some to further conjecture that he could be Turoldus as ment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turold Scene 10 Bayeux Tapestry
Turoldus, or Turold, is the name traditionally given to the author of the 11th-century French poem the ''Song of Roland''. Efforts to make a convincing further identification of the identity of Turoldus have failed. The Latin form ''Turoldus'' is equivalent to the personal name Thorold. The Bodleian Library manuscript of ''The Song of Roland'', deemed the oldest, ends with the name Turoldus, but the preceding phrase is ambiguous and does not safely allow the interpretation that the role of Turoldus was that of author. and the bishop of that name, at the end of the 11th century, respectively, in Peterborough and Bayeux, can by no means be tied to the work. The caption "Turold" occurring in the Bayeux Tapestry The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidery, embroidered cloth nearly long and tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest, Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William the Conqueror, William, Duke of Normandy challenging H ... similarly has given no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Sans Avoir
Walter Sans Avoir (in French ''Gautier Sans-Avoir''; died 21 October 1096) was the lord of Boissy-sans-Avoir in the Île-de-France. His name is often mistranslated as Walter the Penniless. While the words in his name do literally mean "Walter without having", the name actually derives from that of his demesne (and, ultimately, the motto of his family), ''Sans avoir Peur'' ("Fearless"). As lieutenant to Peter the Hermit, he co-led the People's Crusade at the beginning of the First Crusade. Leaving well before the main army of knights and their followers (the more famous "Princes' Crusade"), Walter led his small group of knights at the head of a mass of poorly-armed pilgrims through the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Syrmian and Bulgarian provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire, traveling separately from Peter. They passed through Germany and Hungary uneventfully, but Walter's followers plundered the Belgrade area, drawing reprisals upon themselves. They continued t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Of Wessex
Edith of Wessex (; 1025 – 18 December 1075) was Queen of England through her marriage to Edward the Confessor from 1045 until Edward's death in 1066. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned. The principal source on her life is a work she herself commissioned, the '' Vita Ædwardi Regis'' or the ''Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster'', which is inevitably biased. Early life Edith was the daughter of Godwin, the most powerful earl in England. Her mother Gytha was sister of Ulf, a Danish earl who was Cnut the Great's brother-in-law. She was probably born in or before 1027. Edith was originally named Gytha, but renamed Ealdgyth (or Edith) when she married King Edward the Confessor.Harold Godwinson Her brothers were Sweyn (c. 1020 – 1052), Harold (later King Harold II) (c. 1022 – 1066), Tostig (c. 1026 – 1066), Gyrth (c. 1030 – 1066), Leofwine (c. 1035 – 1066), and Wulfnoth (c. 1040 – 1094). Edith was the firstborn o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autun
Autun () is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Roman capital to the Gauls, Gallic people Aedui, who had Bibracte as their political centre. In Roman times the city may have been home to 30,000 to 100,000 people, according to different estimates. Nowadays, the Communes of France, commune has a population of about 15,000. Pioneer of the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth Century with the early exploitation of oil shale and fluorine, since the twentieth century, Autun has experienced a renewed dynamism that has made it the headquarters of several international companies (Dim, Nexans). It contains one of the six French military high schools (Lycée militaire d'Autun). The city, due to its ancient and medieval past, posses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nibelungids
{{about, the historical Frankish dynasty sometimes called the Nibelungs, an explanation of the term Nibelung in Germanic heroic legend, Nibelung The Nibelungids were a Frankish noble family descended from Childebrand, the younger full brother of Charles Martel. They formed a cadet branch, alongside the Carolingians, of the Arnulfing−Pippinid house. The dynasty got its name from Childebrand's heir, Nibelung I (''"The Historian"''). Childebrand's immediate descendants held the County of the Vexin in the 9th century. The relationships between the various Childebrands and Nibelungs of the period are rarely attested in primary sources, leaving it to genealogists, prosopographers, and onomasticists to piece together possible lines of descent. It has been suggested that they were related to the family of William of Gellone and to the Counts of Autun, from which may have descended Ringard, the wife of Pepin II of Aquitaine. The early Nibelungids were patrons of the continuation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Tirel
Walter Tirel III (1065 – some time after 1100), nicknamed the "Red Knight of Normandie", was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. He is infamous for allegedly accidentally killing King William II of England. Life Walter Tirel was born in Tonbridge, Kent, the son of Norman Walter Tirel, and was lord of Poix-de-Picardie in France, and of Langham, Essex (as appears in the Domesday Survey). By marriage, he became linked to the English royal family, having wed Adeliza, the daughter of royal kinsman, Richard Fitz Gilbert. He died some time after 1100. The grandson of Walter and Adeliza, Hugh Tyrrel, took part in the Norman Conquest of Ireland and became the first baron of Castleknock. Tirel was a magnate who was lord of Poix in Ponthieu and castellan of Pontoise in the French Vexin. He was a friend of St Anselm's. His wife was of the family of Clare. Tirel's father-in-law owned lands in Essex, which he enfeoffed to Tirel. Death of William II Confirmed events On 2 August 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter III Of The Vexin
Walter III was a French Count of the Vexin, Amiens and Maine. He held Vexin from 1035 to 1063. Walter was the son of Count Drogo of Vexin and Amiens and Godgifu, daughter of King Æthelred II of England. He appeared in 1030 as a witness to a donation made by his father to the Abbey of Jumièges, and succeeded him in 1035. Walter continued the policy of his father, good relations with the Capetians and the Duchy of Normandy, but the breakdown of their relationship in 1052 called this policy into question. He first attempted neutrality between the two, but ended up joining the camp of King Henry I in 1057. Walter married Biota, the daughter of Count Herbert I of Maine, but had no children. Or he was the father of Walter Tirel, who slayed William Rufus. His wife's nephew Count Herbert II of Maine, died in 1062, bequeathing Maine to Duke William of Normandy, but the lords of Maine refused him, revolted and chose Walter as Count, with the support of Count Geoffrey III of Anjou. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taillefer
Taillefer (, meaning "hewer of iron") was the surname of a Norman ''jongleur'' (minstrel), whose exact name and place of birth are unknown (sometimes his first name is given as "Ivo"). He travelled to England during the Norman conquest of England of 1066, in the train of William the Conqueror. At the Battle of Hastings, Taillefer sang the ''Chanson de Roland'' at the English troops while juggling with his sword. An English soldier ran out to challenge him and was killed by Taillefer, who then charged the English lines alone while singing and was engulfed, killing at least four more English in the process. Taillefer is not depicted, by name at least, on the Bayeux Tapestry due to this some people do not believe in Taillefer. Wace mentions Taillefer in the ''Roman de Rou'' (c. 1170): : The story of Taillefer is told by Geoffrey Gaimar, Henry of Huntingdon, William of Malmesbury and in the ''Carmen de Hastingae Proelio''. The accounts differ, some mentioning only the juggling, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turold
Turoldus, or Turold, is the name traditionally given to the author of the 11th-century French poem the ''Song of Roland''. Efforts to make a convincing further identification of the identity of Turoldus have failed. The Latin form ''Turoldus'' is equivalent to the personal name Thorold. The Bodleian Library manuscript of ''The Song of Roland'', deemed the oldest, ends with the name Turoldus, but the preceding phrase is ambiguous and does not safely allow the interpretation that the role of Turoldus was that of author. and the bishop of that name, at the end of the 11th century, respectively, in Peterborough and Bayeux, can by no means be tied to the work. The caption "Turold" occurring in the Bayeux Tapestry The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidery, embroidered cloth nearly long and tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest, Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William the Conqueror, William, Duke of Normandy challenging H ... similarly has given n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayeux Tapestry Tituli
The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry and describe scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These depict events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William the Conqueror, William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold Godwinson, Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. The tapestry The Bayeux Tapestry, a long embroidered-linen cloth which narrates the story of the Norman conquest of England in 1066 has been said to be "one of the most powerful pieces of visual propaganda ever produced, as well as one of the few medieval works of art familiar to almost everyone in the Western world." The tapestry has compelled many people to study and question who commissioned it and for what purpose. The tapestry is currently located in Bayeux, Normandy and is protected by a glass case. The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered along the Bayeux Tap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanson De Roland
The ''Song of Roland'' () is an 11th-century based on the deeds of the Frankish kingdom, Frankish military leader Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in AD 778, during the reign of the Charlemagne, Emperor Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature. It exists in various manuscript versions, which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in Medieval literature, Medieval and Renaissance literature, Renaissance literature from the 12th to 16th centuries. The epic poem written in Old French is the first and one of the most outstanding examples of the ''chanson de geste'', a literary form that flourished between the 11th and 16th centuries in Medieval Europe and celebrated legendary deeds. An early version was composed around 1040 AD, with additions and alterations made up to about 1115 AD. The final poem contains about 4,000 lines. Manuscripts and dating Although set in the Carolingian era, the ''Song of Roland'' was written centuries later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turoldus
Turoldus, or Turold, is the name traditionally given to the author of the 11th-century French poem the ''Song of Roland''. Efforts to make a convincing further identification of the identity of Turoldus have failed. The Latin form ''Turoldus'' is equivalent to the personal name Thorold. The Bodleian Library manuscript of ''The Song of Roland'', deemed the oldest, ends with the name Turoldus, but the preceding phrase is ambiguous and does not safely allow the interpretation that the role of Turoldus was that of author. and the bishop of that name, at the end of the 11th century, respectively, in Peterborough and Bayeux, can by no means be tied to the work. The caption "Turold" occurring in the Bayeux Tapestry The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidery, embroidered cloth nearly long and tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest, Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William the Conqueror, William, Duke of Normandy challenging H ... similarly has given n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
