David Bates (historian)

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David Bates is a historian of Britain and France during the period from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. He has written many books and articles during his career, including Normandy before 1066 (1982), Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I, 1066–1087 (1998), The Normans and Empire (2013), William the Conqueror (2016) in the Yale English Monarchs series (translated into French as Guillaume le Conquérant (2019)) and La Tapisserie de Bayeux (co-authored with Xavier Barral i Altet) (2019).^[1]