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The Maldon Embroidery

Aug 11, 2022

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, religion

Battle of Maldon, Bayeux Tapestry, Beeleigh Abbey, Brythnoth, Charters, d’Arcy family, Edward Bright, Ely Cathedral, Heinkel bomber, Henry II, Maldon embroidery, Moot Hall, Olaf, Olaf Tryggvason, railways, Rose and Crown Maldon, shipping, St. Peter’s Maldon, Thomas Plume, Thomas Plume’s Library

The first thing to notice about this is that is an embroidery not a tapestry, although the “Bayeux Tapestry” is also an embroidery ie hand-stitched. It was constructed to mark the millennium of the 991 Battle of Maldon, at which Vikings, possibly under Olaf Tryggvason, defeated and killed the Saxon Earldorman Brythnoth. It is displayed…
The White Ship

Nov 25, 2021

anniversaries, archaeology, Book Reviews, genealogy, Science, travel

Charles Earl Spencer, disasters, drunkenness, Henry I, Institute for Digital Archaeology, Matilda, Normandy, shipping, Stephen, The Anarchy, White Ship Disaster, William Adelin

Here is a Daily Telegraph review of Charles, Earl Spencer‘s book about the sinking of the White Ship in 1120. It includes a lot of hypotheses based upon the survival of William the Atheling, the tenager who was Henry I‘s only surviving legitimate son but was the most prominent casualty of this maritime incident, arguably…