Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. Here is something that is definitely on my list of things to see and

places to visit, the Chateau d'Anjee. If you find Paris on a map, go directly southwest and about two-thirds of the way to the

coast you'll come to this castle.

The Chateau d'Anjy, it is the ancestral home of the Dukes of Anjou, of the House of Valois.

This was quite a dynasty in medieval France, and one of these dukes, Louis I commissioned a tapestry.

It took five years to make, 35, both French and Belgian weavers, to make, and Jean Bondal, the court artist for the King of France to create.

Then this tapestry got delivered to Louis the first. It was big. I mean very big.

Many, many panels. Each panel was 20 feet in height and in total they stretched out 450 feet long.

That's one and a half football fields long. Now the dukes had great wealth, they had big castles, but

even so there was not a room anywhere in Louis the First Castle where he could this, and even if he hung it in all of the rooms of his castle, he would not be able to display all of it.

So historians believe that it was displayed for outdoor viewing.

Large wooden panel walls would be constructed, roofs would be built,

and the tapestry would be hung in a long line so viewers could walk along and see these scenes.

It would be temporarily displayed for fairs and festivals and even for the weddings of Louis

the First children.

One viewer wrote,

No man can express in words,

the richness, the beauty, the nobility of this tapestry. It was stunning, overwhelming, breathtaking.

Obviously it was a display of the Duke of Anjou's wealth and status.

But historians also think it reinforced the House of Valois during the 100 years war, that long

intermittent series of battles and conflicts between France and England.

So what was on all of these panels?

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