![]() ![]() Rare names such as Acaris occur in the immediate families of both Scollands, so they were probably close kin. Scolland had a later namesake who served Alan Rufus's family as steward at Richmond Castle. ![]() Among those soldiers where his sons Alan Rufus and Brian, whose prowess and nous would prove invaluable during the Battle of Hastings and long afterward. (2) The Normans were allied with Conan's grandson Count Eudon Penteur of Brittany against his nephew Duke Conan II.Įudon subsequently supplied numerous troops and ships for the Conquest of England. Two points here: (1) Mont St Michel houses the tomb of Duke Conan I of Brittany, an ancestor of the Norman Dukes. A panel in the BT depicts a monk at Mont St Michel overlooking the Norman army's crossing into Brittany (with Earl Harold). The Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury at the time of the Bayeux Tapestry's embroidering was Scolland, formerly head of the scriptorium and artworks at the Abbey of Mont St-Michel. ![]() The Archbishop of Dol referred to a tapestry in the possession of William's daughter Adela, but which tapestry he did not say. ![]()
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