William Receives Harold at the Palace of Rouen

Embroidered Latin titulus: « HIC DUX WILLELMUS CUM HAROLDO VENIT AD PALATIUM SUUM »

Informed of Harold's captivity, Duke William dispatches emissaries to pay the ransom and demand his release. William escorts Harold to his ducal court in Rouen, receiving him with great princely honors within the arched hall of his palace.

This fragment belongs to a continuous narrative: the upper and lower registers extend the main story with a bestiary, decorative motifs and symbolic echoes.