"And Those Who Were with Harold Have Fallen" A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry showing the invading Normans on horseback charging the Anglo-Saxon soldiers of Harold Godwinson, King of England. The Bayeux Tapestry, nearly 70 meters long, is an embroidered linen cloth narrating William the Conqueror's rise to the throne of England culminating in the Battle of Hastings. The Battle of Hastings was fought on October 14, 1066 between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold II, during the Norman conquest of England.