The Bayeux Tapestry was made after the Conquest. Because many of the important facts asserted in the beginning of the Tapestry are not substantiated by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, nor was any mention made of them in the official Norman documents preceding the Conquest, it is a surety that the Tapestry was made to justify William's rather shaky claim to the English crown. It was William's half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, who commissioned the Tapestry to be made, and it was a stroke of genius. After it was completed, Bishop Odo had it publicly displayed in his church in the city of Bayeux (in Normandy), with the obvious intent of convincing the local population that the invasion had been justified. Clearly, this was literally the first time in history that facts had been embroidered. The Tapestry, which exists today, measures about 20 inches high by 240 feet long.