Thomas of Bayeux was Archbishop of York from 1070 until 1100. He was educated at Liège and became a royal chaplain to Duke William of Normandy, who later became King William I of England. After the No
The Accord of Winchester, 1072. Thomas's signature is on the right, next to Lanfranc's.
Odo of Bayeux, shown here on the Bayeux Tapestry, was an early patron of Thomas.
The tomb of William the Conqueror in Caen, for which Thomas wrote an epitaph
Gerard was Archbishop of York between 1100 and 1108 and Lord Chancellor of England from 1085 until 1092. A Norman, he was a member of the cathedral clergy at Rouen before becoming a royal clerk under
Gerard undertook missions to Pope Urban II, seen here preaching the First Crusade in an illustration from the Grand Chronicle of France, a work from about 1455.
Thirteenth-century manuscript illustration of Henry I