Harold Godwinson is offered the crown of England after the death of Edward the Confessor (left), and Guido, Count Guy I of Ponthieu holding a battleaxe. Harold elu Roi, Guido. Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Norman Conquest, 1066. Handcoloured lithograph by Villain after an illustration by Horace de Viel-Castel from his Collection des costumes, armes et meubles pour servir à l'histoire de la France (Collection of costumes, weapons and furniture to be used in the history of France), Treuttel & Wurtz, Bossange, 1829.

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