Lista de Personas Famosas con el apellido Bayeux

Poppa de Bayeux fue la amante o la esposa del conquistador normando Rollón. Fue la madre de Guillermo, duque de Normandía, Gerloc, y abuela de Ricardo I de Normandía que convirtió el Ducado de Normandía en un gran feudo de la Francia medieval. A finales del siglo X, el cronista francés Dudo de Saint-Quentin relata que era hija de un conde llamado Berengario, capturado en Bayeux por Rollón en 885 u 889. Esto llevó a especular que podría ser la hija de Berengario II de Neustria. A pesar de la incertidumbre de su origen, sin duda era miembro de la aristocracia franca. Una estatua de Poppa se alza en la Plaza de Gaulle en Bayeux.

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 Norman Conquest, the king nominated Thomas to succeed Ealdred as Archbishop of York. After Thomas' election, Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, demanded an oath from Thomas to obey him and any future Archbishops of Canterbury; this was part of Lanfranc's claim that Canterbury was the primary bishopric, and its holder the head of the English Church. Thomas countered that York had never made such an oath. As a result, Lanfranc refused to consecrate him. The King eventually persuaded Thomas to submit, but Thomas and Lanfranc continued to clash over ecclesiastical issues, including the primacy of Canterbury, which dioceses belonged to the province of York, and the question of how York's obedience to Canterbury would be expressed.