Carbon dating shows the Bayeux Tapestry was created in the 15th century, during the Renaissance. There was also a battle fought in Normandy during the Hundred Years War, in which a duke called William also fought. Is history repeating itself? Or is the history we know as history FALSE?
@Foodforthepack Don't worry, Normans were not French. They were a Viking tribe who settled in north France in the 800s AD. But of course the frogs like to gloss over this
I see there are some Norman-philes strutting around. I wouldn't say the Normans have such a splendid past. They were largely war like, except for the Norman Sicilian kingdom which was splendid under Roger II. However, nothing lasts forever, but the Norman "empire" never lasted more than a century.
The Germans however, the HRE, still is the biggest early medieval faction that no nation tried to cross with. When Saladin heard they were on crusade, he was extremely fearful.
Is that why the elite army of German Swabians and their allies were destroyed by the Normans at the battle of Civitate.
Let me remind you also that Norman architecture can still be found in Normandy, the British Isles (White Tower of London being the best example) and Italy & Sicily.
Sounds like a lecture from you. Good contribution there, its quite right at Civitate, the Swabians were destroyed because the Italian infantry ran and left 900 elite Swabian swordsmen to die on their own. Just goes to show how pathetic the Italians are. They simply have no stomach to fight given their lack of confidence since the barbarian invasions.
The Normans do have viking roots. But they borrowed Frankish technology.......
Normans are a unique bunch. They regard themselves as French. In fact, they're French in everyway except their blood as they are not pure French. They are intermarried with the French populous mixed with their own Norse blood.
The only thing they retain from their Norse roots are their war like nature and their ferocity in battle, thats all.
And the Norman Customary Law that was very different from Frankish laws with such laws as the Ullac, Hamfara, Murdrum, Wareech etc all of whom were of Scandinavian origins. As well as a large proportion of their language, the Norman language has more Norse vocabulary than French has Frankish. We still say Dalle in Norman for what the French call Vallée.
Or customs such as the More Danico (Danish wedding Stile).
They are quick to take local women and are thus mixed with the locals! And two-generation language and Scandinavian culture disappeared! no more than the Scandinavian name of Norman! As there remains the name of the Franks of France, Burgundy and the name of Burgundy! That is why the Normans are French! The proof is that when the Normans arrived in England! they despised the Anglo-Saxons, but they have despised the Danes who were descendants of the Vikings since the time of the Danelaw
The Normans despised the Anglo-Saxons? That's probably why Richard the Fearless of Normandy had much more to do with the English in politics than the French and why he wed his daughter Emma to the king of England Æthelred. The Normans however did hate the French. As can be seen when the Frankish king Louis d'Outremer was taken prisoner by them. Or when later William destroyed the French armies led by King Henri I at the battle of Varaville in 1057.
@LaNormandieLibre It happened that the Dukes of Normandy make war against the king of France but they were not the only french lords to do! At the time the various lords and dukes were fighting among themselves and against their lord the king of France as it was needed! It is the policy! Besides, the worst enemy of the King of France to the surroundings of the millennium was not the Dukes of Normandy, but the dukes of Anjou!
It does not matter how much you try to put the glory and achievements of my people the Normans into the hands of the French. The fact is Norman glory belong to us Normans only.
The Normans did not hate the Anglo-Saxons since they were partly Anglo-Saxons themselves as can be seen in our toponymy, google "Norman Toponymy".
The French were however hated by the Normans as can be seen by the Norman literature by the Norman writers Wace and André de Coutances etc.
@LaNormandieLibre HIC FRANCI PUGNANT ET CECIDERUNT QUI ERANT CUM HAROLDO
translates here the FRENCH(FRANKS) have come to do battle with harold/ Here the French are fighting and have killed those who were with Harold..they considered themselves French consult bayeaux tapestry
@LaNormandieLibre You can not say that the Normans hate the French because the two populations are significantly similar! Effectively the Normans despised the English, including making fun of the Germanic language and customs of the Anglo-Saxons, there are many stories above the one of which is well known chroniclers who described the reaction of the Norman barons in marriage of Norman noble with English women barons mocked Anglo-Saxon name of the bride!
I can say the Normans hated the French and the language brought to England was our Norman language not French. French is only one of the Oil languages, Norman is another. Norman has more Norse words than French has Frankish. In the Romanz di Rou you see the hate the Normans had for the French. You see the same in the Li Romanz des Franceis written by André de Coutances, the mocking of the French and how the Normans considered the French cowards.
Because Normandy is my country and not yours. We never welcome the French horsains who buy summer houses in Normandy because to us they are horsains (foreigners in Norman). We make their lives hell until they fuck off and don't come back ;)
For us in Normandy to hate the French horsains is a Norman tradition.
Stay away from our Normandy you repulsive French horsains ;)
@LaNormandieLibre Ah mais on l'aime notre Normandie ! On l'aime tellement qu'on ne la lâchera jamais ! Mais je comprends que des gens se réfugient dans le très lointain passé par ennui.
Normandy is of course not yours, after all you are horsains, foreigners.
But I understand that the French want us to be a part of France. Normandy is eternal and strong like the Mont unlike France who is weak and mortal like the Eiffel Tower, rusting away.
@LaNormandieLibre In any of the many bullying and humiliation he remained the legend of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe, which date from this period! As for marriages between Normans and Anglo-Saxons, they were held for political reasons and that was limited to a few cases and was by no means general! The other evidence and the preservation of the French language by the Normans and the Norman-Angevin nobility until the end of the fourteenth century
You French filth, I am from Normandy. A horsain (Norman word for the French meaning foreigner) like you will not tell a Norman his origins or history. We look nothing like the French, we are northern looking people.
Many of the founders of Normandy were Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Danes. I told you to google "toponymie normande" you will see that a large part of place names in Normandy is not only Scandinavian but English as well.
@LaNormandieLibre next Normans got entierly mixed with french population after 911. They spoke french, had french DNA, culture and religion. Normans were vassals of France and even called themselves "Franci" during the invasion of England (see the Bayeux tapestry). Next France shone all over Europe during the 13th century.
But the installation of all these Germanic peoples or Scandinavian in France is not France one of the Germanic countries because in all cases the Germanic peoples were in number far below the local population once they quickly lost their native culture and religion and were mixed with the locals! thus it is the same for the handful of Vikings who settled in Normandy, France! They were not many did not as a rule women or children with them!
who give the name, country (Francs became France) or the regions (Burgond becomes Burgundy) and Scandinavians (Vikings giving their names to Normandy), but the installation of all these Germanic peoples or Scandinavian in France is not France one of the Germanic countries because in all cases the Germanic peoples were number much lower than the local population once they quickly lost their native culture and religion and are mixed with the locals!
The French might have lost their Frankish heritage. But our Norman language we speak today has a much greater Norse vocabulary than French has Frankish.
Google "langue normande" We also still pronounce H and a hard R from the old Vikings unlike the French.
Google "Norman Customary Law" it retains a lot of Scandinavian laws.
The place names of Normandy have much more Scandinavian elements than place names in France have Frankish.
Some say that the Normans were Vikings! Good. Apart from the name, which is the heritage of the Vikings! They are not the Vikings in 1066 but French! Why? Because the French are not the only descendants of a single nation but France is one of several people dug! The Gauls are the foundation but they certainly are not the only ancestors of the French there are the Roman and Germanic (Franks Alemanni Burgundians, Visigoths)
The army of the Norwegian King Haraldur Hardradi Sigurdsson was attacked by the Harold Godwinson (who was half Danish so more Anglo-Danish than Anglo-Saxon) when the Norwegians were not ready for war resulting in them being slaughtered. Now that is not honorable.
If the Normans were an opurtunist bunch what does that make their followers the Bretons?
In 1057 William & his Normans destroyed the much larger army of the Frankish King Henri I who tried to invade Normandy AKA the battle of Varaville.
An ok description of the even. Could have been more detailed, but at just 7:27 mins long, it was acceptable. The part @ 2:17 mins, where the narrator only explains that Harolds army were 'battle weary' could have been explained to why they were so. I'm sure that that added detail would give a more detailed account, as to the lack of experience, within Harold's army, as they faced off against William and maybe could have been a major cause to in Harold's down fall.
this guy needs to read a little more about english history ... his story is a lacking 100% facts the english DIDNT run away and break the lines when they THOUGHT harold was dead infact the english line was so strong , that williams men attacked and attacked the line and still couldnt break through ,
the battle went on for hours and hours . with the possibility of victory the english line on the right flank began to chase the normans down the hill ........
this guy needs to read a little more about english history ... his story is a lacking 100% facts the english DIDNT run away and break the lines when they THOUGHT harold was dead .... infact the english line was so strong , that williams men attacked and attacked the line and still couldnt break through ,
the battle went on for hours and hours ..... with the possibility of victory the english line on the right flank began to chase the normans down the hill ........
The Norman and Hasting => funny army...=> The very 100% Norman Battle...= Bretons+ Angevins+Poitevins + Manceaux+ Flanders+Bourguignon+ Picards and the Norman (40%/50% of total contingent...)
The Norman were an opportunist Gang... that's all
Without the Norwegian army in the north (6000-6500 soldiers) William would have never won Hasting and kill Harold Godwinson the Great of Saxon descent, from Wessex
@davidbreizh You are completely correct, William won at Hastings by default. If Harold doesn't have to fight the Vikings in the north before he meets William, Harolds larger, stronger, fresher army defeats William.
In fact William premeditated everything before his war campaign...
There is chronicles also to say that at Senlac William sent scouts to see the result of the campaign of Harald Hardrada in the north...
William had also planned mason-builders in his army who were responsible for consolidating the fortress of Senlac after a first engament, so he could retreat to a fortress siege warfare if Horold won a first engament...
Conan II was the Duke of Brittany and was against William. During the month of December 1066 it will go on the attack in the allied fiefs of William (Maine Anjou ... => south of Normandy), he took several towns but died on December 11, 1066 by poison, by a traitor on the orders of William the Bastard, suspected of ordering the killing. (William was crowned on December 25 at Westminster Abbey)
When we read the chronicles of this time it is clear that william organized an opportunist schema, prepared to use Harold and his soldiers for the siege of Dinan in Brittany a little earlier, and so causes a geopolitical shift in Brittany where the east part of the Duchy will be at Hastings with William (the left army)
@davidbreizh How would he be able to build a fortress after losing a first engagement? I know the Normans brought over a prefabricated wooden castle, but it wasn't at Senlac, and it wouldn't of been much use if it were surrounded by a much superior force in hostile territory.
I wonder why you don't mention the battle of Civitate were the Normans completely outnumbered by the armies of the pope, the German emperor and the Byzantine emperor won them in one single combat making the pope the leader of Christianity their prisoner.
After that the Normans ruled all of Southern-Italy and Sicily.
Then there is the Norman conquest of Antioch etc.
Don't be jealous now just because the Breton counts paid their homage to the Norman dukes.
Je te rapelle ami normand que la basse-neustrie à été incapable de repousser les scandinaves et que une fille se disait "hóra" => une putain....
l'ecosse, la bretagne(Alan Barbetorte), l'irlande (brian boru), le sud ouest (guillaume II Sánchez ) on tous repoussé les scandinaves...lol sauf la basse-neustrie...!!!
Aussi je te rapelle que la Normandie à reussie à se refaire envahir par les Plantagenet, Geoffroy V Plantagenêt, s'empare de la Normandie en 1144 ...lol
Let me remind you that Brittany was owned by the Vikings of the loire
Let me remind you thar the "Scottish" Islands of Orkney and Shetland are still proud of their Viking origins they are not Celtic at all
Let me remind you that Geoffroy Plantagenet was helping his Norman wife and her Norman followers in a Norman civil war. Let me also mention to you that Geoffroy Plantagenet was a direct descendant of Rollon the founder of Normandy.
Tu confonds ton envie de prolonger l'histoire des Normands avec leur fin inevitable....à partir de 1136,Geoffroy Plantagenet concentra la conquête systématique de la Normandie...la suite est connue c'est le royaume Anglo-Angevin... => lignée d'Anjou tu n'as pas compris que les personnes qui traversent et se logent de l'autre coté de la manche etaient un ramassi d'opportunistes... et se justifient via des prébendes accordé pour des oeuvres de propagandes "Roman de Brut...etc"
@davidbreizh I don't have to feel the need to prolong the history of us Normans, it's still ongoing. The first European king-ruler of the Canary Islands was the Norman Jean de Béthencourt in the 15th century. He was no Breton no more than Surcouf who's family originated from the Cotentin. Surcouf being a typical Norman family name of Scandinavian origins such as mine Anquetil ;)
There was no replacement of the Norman nobility in England with ppl from Anjou. Fantasy and dreams on your part lol.
Tous les scandinaves en Bretagne furent vaincus et chassé...:-) ainsi la seul tombe à barque scandinave retrouvé est en Bretagne et non en Nor...ment...die...avec Athelstan les Bretons (cavalerie) ont vaincu à Brunnaburg 937 les Hiverno-scandinaves alié aux scot-Briton du Strat-Clyde Mathuedoï de Poher est chez les West Saxon d'ou il revient en en 936 son fils Drogon de Bretagne devient comte de Nantes et duc de Bretagne en 952 les vikings se sont fait pulvériser ...
The Vikings might have been defeated but for a long time they were the masters of Brittany.
Not bad considering they were completely outnumbered by the Bretons. The Scandinavians frequently massacred the Bretons for over a century like in Nantes in 843. And let us remember when Nominoë after losing 3 times against the Vikings decided to verse them a tribute in 847 instead of fighting more.
Now the 44 is outside Brittany but Insular Normandy is still independent from the RF.
@davidbreizh The Normans from Normandy went on to Conquer all S-Italy and Sicily creating the Kingdom of Sicily and under the Norman king Roger II a part of Libya.The Normans under Bohemond conquered Antioch.The Normans with William conquered England with the help of their obedient Breton & Flemish followers.With Béthencourt Normans also conquered the Canary Islands
The literature of the kingdom of England was composed in Norman not French, Gallo, Breton or Angevin.
Je viens de comprendre un truc extraordinaire tu me dis que tu t'apelles "Anquetil"
====> Tu sais ami que tu es le plus gros "suce boulle" des Anglais du web...
Tout le web te connais....lol
Je te rapelle que le breton lui est toujours pratiqué ami...et il n'y as jamais eu de seconde normandie car les Breton on pulvérisé tes potes... ==> en plus tu fais des recensions historique...;-)
Behind your identity is a self hating Breton known all over YT for licking the ass of the French. The same people who said the Bretons were animals and their Celtic language fit for pigs
NB there are 2 Breton languages, one is Celtic and one is an Oil language. We Normans still have our Norman Oil language, the same used by the Norman nobility of England for 300 years ;)
That said Breton achievements can't be compared with those of Normandy
@LaNormandieLibre tu parles comme un enfant et parles de jalousie tout le temps ;-) la principale réalisation de tes potes c'est trois guerre de cent ans car les conséquence vont se faire sentir très tardivement....car tout au long de leur histoire les Anglais vont hair la langue française... je te rapelle que aucun secteur en france n'a une continuité continu de la langue comme c'est le cas en Bretagne les vénète en realité les wenned (dissimilation) se retrouve en gwenned de l'autre coté..etc
You're a self hating Breton, not my problem. I am not the one who said the Bretons were sub humans and the Celtic language of Brittany fit for pigs, your masters the French did. No wonder Welsh is doing better
Men from Normandy conquered lands in three continents when the Franks were still in Europe. The legacy of Normandy reaches from Ireland to Antioch and from Scotland to Malta
Today a part of Normandy is not under the RF but the 44 was taken out of Brittany, deal with it.
No I don't take you for a proud Breton, I take you for a self hating Breton sucking French cock.
I take you for a person who is with a big mouth and no balls, basically I take you for a Frenchman not a Breton.
I shit on France and your petty French nationalism.
Let's talk on Skype my skype name is eulhintaer, Then we can exchange phone numbers and see if you are as cocky then as you are here, hein mon gars ;)
As a person from Normandy I have nothing but contempt for the French
Hey fucker I am a Norman, from Normandy and my family name is of Norman Scandinavian origins and I know my history better than a fucking Yank who does not even know what happened yesterday.
The Normans were a mixed bunch of Scandinavian, Gaulish, Saxon & Frankish elements.
So you can as well say they were of Gaulish (Celtic) descent.
Fact is the Normans were a result of Mixing just like the English.
The army at Hastings was half Norman the rest being mostly Bretons & Flemish, then came mercenaries from all over including Normans from Norman ruled S-Italy. The commanders of the army were Normans. William the Conqueror, his brother Odo and Williams best friend William FitzOsbern.
La Grande armée, what a funny "French" army composed of Dutchmen, Italians, Saxons, Prussians, Bavarians, Austrians, Poles, Swiss etc and Frenchmen...
But it did serve a great purpose, it broadened the English vernacular and garnished it with new terms and ways of writing and speaking. It all worked out so that by the time of Shakespeare and Milton and even Chaucer, The English language had words and terms for description that transcended the gutteral Phonemes of merely one or two syllables that the Germanic Anglo-Saxons had used. Plus it helped do away with the use of Latin.
I doubt that the Norman French alone could have taken the anglo-saxons who were mixed with the Italians from Rome, since Rome had control of england prior to the anglo-saxons, and Prior to Rome, the Celtics lived there. So it was mixed breeds fighting mixed breeds claiming to be pure. Which is the case throughout history, most times. If it were not for the fact that the French themselves had already capitulated or succumbed to the Vikings, they wouldnt have won at hastings.
@DeMarkieSade romans never controlled England cause it didn't exist at the time and instead of calling them anglo saxon's why do you call them English as that is what they called themselves in 1066.
@redcoatsrule My bad, Redcoat, I like the name also. I am not a troy or loyalist, however. I believe in change and democracy and in not having a Monarchy or Royal Absolutism dictating what can be written and disbursed as literature, films, plays, and as all artistic forms. For such is the right of the people to be what they are---people---and individual spirits.
It is their God given right to voice their opinions and to fraternize and opt for change when too many constraints are being placed upon them. My bad, also, they were indeed Anglish=English at the time of The Battle of Hastings.
Yet they were still mixed, a mixed population, as are all societies when broken down. Celtic, Romans, then the Danes even came through a few times depredating the area, king Alfred the Great however defeated them, but some lingered no doubt. Dont forget the Diaspora
@DeMarkieSade i am indeed English i'm not royalist either, i never had to learn latin and i dont know anyone who is learning it only languages i could take were german,french and spanish.
most of the time i've seen it spelt Englisc and not anglisc like seo stow is gehaten Heofonfeld on Englisc or the east Engle though i have seen it before, you dot like old englisc do you?sounds like you prefer all this foreign influence?there was back in old english but not half as much as there is today.
@redcoatsrule I cannot understand one word that you have written amid this dribble. Please learn to write using the English which evloved from anglo's Anglism Anglish, before responding to me. and yes i know, different parts of England have different dialects and such.
@DeMarkieSade seo stow is gehaten Heofonfeld on Englisc "the place is called heavenfield in English" it's anglo saxon or anglish as you call it and i call Englisc like many people do.
i never mentioned anything about dialects and accents wasn't going to either, i was on about you don't like old English and prefer all this foreign influence and what was written was perfectly fine English.
anglo's anglism anglish is nonsense looks like you need to learn to write not me.
@redcoatsrule You must not know much. Everyone knows that the Anglo tribe was the most formidable and largest, ergo lending their name ANGLO=ANGOLAND, then it became England from Anglish. Why do you think people refer to those who have a love for England as an "Anglophile"? or people who fear it as suffering from "Anglophobia"?
if you had taken some time to view my youtube channel you'd see my video 1066:when our England died you'd know that i already know these things so i have no need of your so called teachings.
the angles most formidable? yes they had their time of dominance over surrounding kindoms but the anglians didn't do to well against the danes did they or the picts at nechtansmere(imagine if they won that ). you should check out anglo saxon foundation my name is Englisce fyrd on asf.
@redcoatsrule I am going to check out the Anglo-Saxon foundation and look for you "Englisce fyrd.” In addition, I will check out your YouTube channel as well. I want to learn and no about the history of this stuff.
@redcoatsrule. I know the Danes attacked England during the reign of "King Alfred the Great" and he dispatched and routed many of them; yet, some did indeed settle and remain there brining their culture and bits of their language, which we owe much, especially the pronouns and such--or so we have been taught here in America.
@redcoatsrule. However, as I said, I want to know more from the people who live there and who actually know the facts from the time of Arthur, to King Ethelbert, to Saint Augustine, to Alfred the great, etc.
@redcoatsrule Hey red coat, I coudnt find you on the web site so send me the specific url so we can talk on there if you don't mind. I want to learn more about the old country.
@redcoatsrule of the jews from Rome either, which many crossed the Caucus mountians and crossed the English channel.
But nevertheless, I was mainly talking in respect to how it all help to evolve what we now call the English language. Bits of Celtic, Latin, French, and Greek even (probably coming from some of the Romans) to the Germanic Anglish= English we speak now, after centuries of alterations and amending. I am glad I am a native speaker of the language myself.
@redcoatsrule Also, I have heard this and I wonder if it is true and to how wide spread it is if it is indeed true, but is Latin making a come-back in the schools and as a secondary langauge again in parts of England, or Great Britain rather? I figure you may know this redcoat, I take it you are from England or GB, or just an Angliophile, which is okay too.
Normandy or Normandie, region of France along the English Channel. It became known as Normandy about 911, when France turned it over to a band of Vikings.
911 to 1066 . The Vikings had gained control of Normandy France through an armistice or peace treaty in 911 and the Battle of Hastings took place 155 years later. So, it wasnt just the French that conquered King Harold, as the guy in the video Stated, it was bastards of French and Viking (Danish) descent.
@wing2912 in the same way we're all africans. Normans spoke frankish, lived a frankish lifestyle, had frankish culture, and their genes are way closer to the franks than their ancestral vikings. So no, they are french.
@NScott45 Wrong. My ancestors thousands of years ago may have been but I, and no one else alive today are not. William was separate from the French court. Hell, even the word Norman and Normady comes from the term "man of the north". Read a book and in the very first sentence you know you're wrong. Besides...you're French so you're obviously going to claim some kind of victory over the English
@TalonMercenary Indeed Norman means "men from the north" and indeed their ancestors were viking. But they spoke french, obeyed to the french crown, had french culture and lifestyle, and most of all, their genetics were far closer to the french than the viking.
"Read a book and in the very first sentence you know you're wrong" I have read many, and they all confirm you are wrong
"you're French so you're obviously going to claim some kind of victory over the English" what? just stop hating, ok?
We Normans are Normans not French. Normandy is divided in 2 today but both are Normandy and not talking about Haute and Basse Normandie.
There is continental Normandy where I am from and Insular Normandy (Guernsey & Jersey) both are Normans.
The official legislation of insular Normandy is still Norman law as was for us until 1806. But to become a lawyer or Judge in Insular Normandy you must learn Norman law in Caen.
Some of these blogs are nosense talk! My surname is Pettitt (Petite) My orgins are French! They came over after the Normans invaded, THEY WERE NOT VIKINGS!!! people forget or choose to forget that they came from all parts of France to settle in England and southern Italy, the name Petite is clamed to come from a reigon south east of Paris - Burgundy.
@1988scottcarey He's a traitor, that rebeled about 300 years after. His ancestors may have been fighting at hastings, as his family was most-likely a rich Landowner, of English decent.
@1988scottcarey this was hundereds of years before that and the english as we know them didnt exist at that time this battle was between anglo saxons and normans from france.
French are not of norman ascendense only. There are more share of blood on the historical french. Normans were vilings established initially in northern france and then expanded into england ans sicily cause of their pirate instinct. And the english of those days were not only saxons but also brits and celts.
it's funny as the English are hard to admit Normans was French, say "the Normans were not French, they were vikings", it's like saying humans are not humans they are monkeys, because monkeys is human ancestors. it's stupid, to day, humans are different to monkeys, like normans were also different to their vikings ancestors.normans spoke french and they had nothing to do with vikings, and french people pure blood also come from normans people, so what you saying is really stupid
Normans did not speak French but Norman. Our language the French falsely call patois is a separate Oil language, the French language is only one of the many Oil languages not the original source.
Inform yourself and google "Langue Normande"
The origins of Gallo-Roman Oil languages did not start from the Paris region were the Francian Oil language evolved.
Norman was written down in literature before Francian was.
Norman and Picard are officially recognized in other countires.
Normans were considered French or Franks, as they were a continental power. However, this does not mean they are pure French. They have Viking stock, intermarried with French populous/culture/technology/religion. They have been assimilated to a degree.
However, England has its roots the the Anglo-Saxons primarily and also to Normans as well. We cannot disregard the heritage of the Anglo Saxons and the Normans. They all contributed to the formation of modern England.
According to the Domesday Book, this is where the beginnings of my family name are from, well from Normans. Then the family lived in Leicestershire, England. Surnames were not really used up until this time. Then in America in 1639 on the ship Susan Constant arriving in Virginia. My name is named after a place in Normandy, and it does sound French! Cool to know that I may be some part Viking, English and American. Nice to know the history where you come from. My mothers name was Scottish.
@MrDataCode There were more English because they lived and ruled the country, they regarded themselves as distinct from Normans socially and culturally, and had laws/government that were particular to Saxon England. I would agree that modern notions of England and France don't help, but to say there was no difference at all at the time is not accurate.
I was wondering what if Duke William of Normandy submited the Kingdom of England to King Philip I of France or established a new country about Normans instead of acceding to the throne of England... Would there not be a country as the UK in Great Britain right now..?
Yeah, surely the UK wouldn't be as it is today if all of that historical events weren't be experienced. Even though, existence of normans and influence of their language is't that important, the history of England in cotton yarn!?
the normans changed the english language , and they introduced the class system, not really a positive contribution, the normans accepted the multi faith system in sicily/malta which was arab/muslim. also the norman empire was multi cultural, the saxon way of life was a more basic way of life, but the normans continued with the same ideology as the romans, being multi cultural, why did the normans persecute the saxons so much? pointless
William is not a favorite of mine, but I'll give the devil his due. He's the ancestor of my wife at least three times over, and if William had died instead of Harold those Norman ancestors wouldn't have been part of her story. He was a capable, but a harsh, driven monarch. You didn't want to make him your enemy.
@AuxaneD Normans were comprised of Viking who invaded Normandy. I think they were the majority and dominant force, especially in this battle. Viking Rollo was main person.
@Guppy915 Nope, more than 200 years after with total exogamy! They were even protecting French (and English) coasts from other potential Viking invasions. By language (Langue d'oïl dialect of Norman...), culture, religion, and even DNA Normans were and are French. Bayeux Tapestry : "Hic Franci Pugnant"...
@legomyeggo713 Cool for you to go that far back in your genealogy. Nothing to explain. 885 - 1066 = 181 years, almost 2 centuries, your ancestors closer down the line were Normans (of Viking ancestry for some) = French. Exactly my point! ;)
@AuxaneD You're wrong, Norman's were named that that because they were "NORTH MEN" in those times referring to vikings that came from the north. Meaning by blood they were not at all french. Owned.
Is it me or does this guy sound like he sort of has a grudge against William?
Sagemaster00 1 week ago
Battlefield Bad Company 2
tromuniapp 1 week ago
FOREVER A SAXON
TalonMercenary 2 weeks ago
The battle was decisive from any miltary perspective if your small in number never be surrounded
ghasl1 1 month ago
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Carbon dating shows the Bayeux Tapestry was created in the 15th century, during the Renaissance. There was also a battle fought in Normandy during the Hundred Years War, in which a duke called William also fought. Is history repeating itself? Or is the history we know as history FALSE?
verynicelookingguy27 1 month ago
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Hastings => = the funny "Norman army" =>Bretons +Angevins + Manceaux + Poitou + Flanders+ Bourguignon +Picards and the Normans ...lol :-)
("the French have big mouths and no balls...") => the Norman have no balls
davidbreizh 1 month ago
HAHA his face on the opicture on the video...
Hes like Duuhh!
govreno911 2 months ago
meanwhile in the middle east... they were inventing things
Foodforthepack 2 months ago
screw the French
Foodforthepack 2 months ago
@Foodforthepack yea the french are pretty faggoty, but hey, good thing this video isn't about them. but you probably knew that, surely.
paintballer058 1 month ago
@Foodforthepack Don't worry, Normans were not French. They were a Viking tribe who settled in north France in the 800s AD. But of course the frogs like to gloss over this
TalonMercenary 2 weeks ago
KING: IF WE WIN THIS BATTLE WE GET HASTINGS!!!!
MEN:(BORING SARCASTIC VOICE)WOOO YYYEEEAAA HASTINGS..
EPICSHADOW191911 2 months ago
wish the whole series was on youtube.
makky123 2 months ago
I used to be a king, like Harold.. then I took an arrow in the eye.
DEDICATlON3 2 months ago 18
@DEDICATlON3 ahhh it's funny cuz it's skyrim
TheNaziboy007 2 months ago
@DEDICATlON3 Darn it I was about to make that joke >:( xD
mac5565 2 months ago
@DEDICATlON3 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
iMMostafa 2 months ago
@DEDICATlON3 damn it i just came here to post that arrow to the eye comment
thomasnbishop 1 month ago
@DEDICATlON3 He didn't took an arrow in the eye, he actually got killed by a gang of Norman Cavalry.
Drastyyy 5 days ago
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espoire1757 3 months ago
this has realy helped me with my history essay
amyrosie123 3 months ago
@amyrosie123 :o- i am writing an essay on it now- lol
chelseaking18 3 months ago
I see there are some Norman-philes strutting around. I wouldn't say the Normans have such a splendid past. They were largely war like, except for the Norman Sicilian kingdom which was splendid under Roger II. However, nothing lasts forever, but the Norman "empire" never lasted more than a century.
The Germans however, the HRE, still is the biggest early medieval faction that no nation tried to cross with. When Saladin heard they were on crusade, he was extremely fearful.
ConstantineJoseph 3 months ago
@ConstantineJoseph
Is that why the elite army of German Swabians and their allies were destroyed by the Normans at the battle of Civitate.
Let me remind you also that Norman architecture can still be found in Normandy, the British Isles (White Tower of London being the best example) and Italy & Sicily.
LaNormandieLibre 3 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre
Sounds like a lecture from you. Good contribution there, its quite right at Civitate, the Swabians were destroyed because the Italian infantry ran and left 900 elite Swabian swordsmen to die on their own. Just goes to show how pathetic the Italians are. They simply have no stomach to fight given their lack of confidence since the barbarian invasions.
The Normans do have viking roots. But they borrowed Frankish technology.......
ConstantineJoseph 3 months ago
Normans are a unique bunch. They regard themselves as French. In fact, they're French in everyway except their blood as they are not pure French. They are intermarried with the French populous mixed with their own Norse blood.
The only thing they retain from their Norse roots are their war like nature and their ferocity in battle, thats all.
ConstantineJoseph 3 months ago
@ConstantineJoseph
And the Norman Customary Law that was very different from Frankish laws with such laws as the Ullac, Hamfara, Murdrum, Wareech etc all of whom were of Scandinavian origins. As well as a large proportion of their language, the Norman language has more Norse vocabulary than French has Frankish. We still say Dalle in Norman for what the French call Vallée.
Or customs such as the More Danico (Danish wedding Stile).
Or the fact they still used Viking ships.
etc
LaNormandieLibre 3 months ago
I would have killed every single saxon by myself.... noobs -.-
Lorfmor 3 months ago
At 2:21 the spear is really blunt
lipstick322 3 months ago
The night the south of England lost it's gene-pool
TripeSmuggler 3 months ago
They are quick to take local women and are thus mixed with the locals! And two-generation language and Scandinavian culture disappeared! no more than the Scandinavian name of Norman! As there remains the name of the Franks of France, Burgundy and the name of Burgundy! That is why the Normans are French! The proof is that when the Normans arrived in England! they despised the Anglo-Saxons, but they have despised the Danes who were descendants of the Vikings since the time of the Danelaw
espoire1757 4 months ago
@espoire1757
The Normans despised the Anglo-Saxons? That's probably why Richard the Fearless of Normandy had much more to do with the English in politics than the French and why he wed his daughter Emma to the king of England Æthelred. The Normans however did hate the French. As can be seen when the Frankish king Louis d'Outremer was taken prisoner by them. Or when later William destroyed the French armies led by King Henri I at the battle of Varaville in 1057.
;)
LaNormandieLibre 3 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre It happened that the Dukes of Normandy make war against the king of France but they were not the only french lords to do! At the time the various lords and dukes were fighting among themselves and against their lord the king of France as it was needed! It is the policy! Besides, the worst enemy of the King of France to the surroundings of the millennium was not the Dukes of Normandy, but the dukes of Anjou!
espoire1757 3 months ago
@espoire1757
It does not matter how much you try to put the glory and achievements of my people the Normans into the hands of the French. The fact is Norman glory belong to us Normans only.
The Normans did not hate the Anglo-Saxons since they were partly Anglo-Saxons themselves as can be seen in our toponymy, google "Norman Toponymy".
The French were however hated by the Normans as can be seen by the Norman literature by the Norman writers Wace and André de Coutances etc.
LaNormandieLibre 3 months ago
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@LaNormandieLibre HIC FRANCI PUGNANT ET CECIDERUNT QUI ERANT CUM HAROLDO
translates here the FRENCH(FRANKS) have come to do battle with harold/ Here the French are fighting and have killed those who were with Harold..they considered themselves French consult bayeaux tapestry
espoire1757 3 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre You can not say that the Normans hate the French because the two populations are significantly similar! Effectively the Normans despised the English, including making fun of the Germanic language and customs of the Anglo-Saxons, there are many stories above the one of which is well known chroniclers who described the reaction of the Norman barons in marriage of Norman noble with English women barons mocked Anglo-Saxon name of the bride!
espoire1757 3 months ago
@espoire1757
I can say the Normans hated the French and the language brought to England was our Norman language not French. French is only one of the Oil languages, Norman is another. Norman has more Norse words than French has Frankish. In the Romanz di Rou you see the hate the Normans had for the French. You see the same in the Li Romanz des Franceis written by André de Coutances, the mocking of the French and how the Normans considered the French cowards.
Nothing has changed.
LaNormandieLibre 3 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre Pourquoi tu vas pas vivre en GB tellement tu leur fais de la lèche ils vont t'adopter gros débile:)
75lauranna 3 months ago
@75lauranna
Because Normandy is my country and not yours. We never welcome the French horsains who buy summer houses in Normandy because to us they are horsains (foreigners in Norman). We make their lives hell until they fuck off and don't come back ;)
For us in Normandy to hate the French horsains is a Norman tradition.
Stay away from our Normandy you repulsive French horsains ;)
LaNormandieLibre 2 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre Sur ton compte tu reconnais être en FRANCE.
75lauranna 2 months ago
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75lauranna 2 months ago
@75lauranna
It's what we say to the French horsains, either you love Normandy or you leave Normandy.
We also tell them, in Norman of course, We are in Normandy here, here we speak Norman.
LaNormandieLibre 2 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre Ah mais on l'aime notre Normandie ! On l'aime tellement qu'on ne la lâchera jamais ! Mais je comprends que des gens se réfugient dans le très lointain passé par ennui.
75lauranna 2 months ago
@75lauranna
Normandy is of course not yours, after all you are horsains, foreigners.
But I understand that the French want us to be a part of France. Normandy is eternal and strong like the Mont unlike France who is weak and mortal like the Eiffel Tower, rusting away.
LaNormandieLibre 2 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre In any of the many bullying and humiliation he remained the legend of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe, which date from this period! As for marriages between Normans and Anglo-Saxons, they were held for political reasons and that was limited to a few cases and was by no means general! The other evidence and the preservation of the French language by the Normans and the Norman-Angevin nobility until the end of the fourteenth century
espoire1757 3 months ago
@espoire1757
You French filth, I am from Normandy. A horsain (Norman word for the French meaning foreigner) like you will not tell a Norman his origins or history. We look nothing like the French, we are northern looking people.
Many of the founders of Normandy were Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Danes. I told you to google "toponymie normande" you will see that a large part of place names in Normandy is not only Scandinavian but English as well.
Do you understand that you French filth.
LaNormandieLibre 3 months ago
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@ it's 1 of the 22 regions of France. it's a part of French identity and history. so stop to write crap things !
Britanny region is considered as 1 of the 6 Celtic nations like Ireland, Scotland etc... they speak a Celtic language there.
Corsica region is more close to Italy, Alsace region has a strong German influence, in fact this land was stole to Germany in XVIII century,
France is a rich mix-ethnic country,even without the recent foreign mass immigration.
espoire1757 3 months ago
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@LaNormandieLibre next Normans got entierly mixed with french population after 911. They spoke french, had french DNA, culture and religion. Normans were vassals of France and even called themselves "Franci" during the invasion of England (see the Bayeux tapestry). Next France shone all over Europe during the 13th century.
espoire1757 3 months ago
But the installation of all these Germanic peoples or Scandinavian in France is not France one of the Germanic countries because in all cases the Germanic peoples were in number far below the local population once they quickly lost their native culture and religion and were mixed with the locals! thus it is the same for the handful of Vikings who settled in Normandy, France! They were not many did not as a rule women or children with them!
espoire1757 4 months ago
who give the name, country (Francs became France) or the regions (Burgond becomes Burgundy) and Scandinavians (Vikings giving their names to Normandy), but the installation of all these Germanic peoples or Scandinavian in France is not France one of the Germanic countries because in all cases the Germanic peoples were number much lower than the local population once they quickly lost their native culture and religion and are mixed with the locals!
espoire1757 4 months ago
@espoire1757
The French might have lost their Frankish heritage. But our Norman language we speak today has a much greater Norse vocabulary than French has Frankish.
Google "langue normande" We also still pronounce H and a hard R from the old Vikings unlike the French.
Google "Norman Customary Law" it retains a lot of Scandinavian laws.
The place names of Normandy have much more Scandinavian elements than place names in France have Frankish.
Google "toponymie normande"
LaNormandieLibre 3 months ago
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espoire1757 4 months ago
Some say that the Normans were Vikings! Good. Apart from the name, which is the heritage of the Vikings! They are not the Vikings in 1066 but French! Why? Because the French are not the only descendants of a single nation but France is one of several people dug! The Gauls are the foundation but they certainly are not the only ancestors of the French there are the Roman and Germanic (Franks Alemanni Burgundians, Visigoths)
espoire1757 4 months ago
I'm blood related to the normans. Axillium ab alto!
asisorfree 4 months ago
guys i think the saxons could win but difficult
HelleniCBlackMeta1 4 months ago
The army of the Norwegian King Haraldur Hardradi Sigurdsson was attacked by the Harold Godwinson (who was half Danish so more Anglo-Danish than Anglo-Saxon) when the Norwegians were not ready for war resulting in them being slaughtered. Now that is not honorable.
If the Normans were an opurtunist bunch what does that make their followers the Bretons?
In 1057 William & his Normans destroyed the much larger army of the Frankish King Henri I who tried to invade Normandy AKA the battle of Varaville.
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
An ok description of the even. Could have been more detailed, but at just 7:27 mins long, it was acceptable. The part @ 2:17 mins, where the narrator only explains that Harolds army were 'battle weary' could have been explained to why they were so. I'm sure that that added detail would give a more detailed account, as to the lack of experience, within Harold's army, as they faced off against William and maybe could have been a major cause to in Harold's down fall.
littlegreenman2001 4 months ago
Hollywood should make a movie on this
ACMilanLurz1 5 months ago 4
@ACMilanLurz1 no they shouldnt
stealth1692 4 months ago
@ACMilanLurz1 should make a brunanburh film too.
redcoatsrule 4 months ago
Awsome series. What a great presenter as well! :)
jamesaellis 5 months ago
@MyKingdom13 I never said the opposite, I totally agree
NScott45 5 months ago
it was at that point william saw his chance and made his men charge 1 last time and finally then the line broke :(
leighmossien2009 5 months ago
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this guy needs to read a little more about english history ... his story is a lacking 100% facts the english DIDNT run away and break the lines when they THOUGHT harold was dead infact the english line was so strong , that williams men attacked and attacked the line and still couldnt break through ,
the battle went on for hours and hours . with the possibility of victory the english line on the right flank began to chase the normans down the hill ........
leighmossien2009 5 months ago
this guy needs to read a little more about english history ... his story is a lacking 100% facts the english DIDNT run away and break the lines when they THOUGHT harold was dead .... infact the english line was so strong , that williams men attacked and attacked the line and still couldnt break through ,
the battle went on for hours and hours ..... with the possibility of victory the english line on the right flank began to chase the normans down the hill ........
leighmossien2009 5 months ago
The Norman and Hasting => funny army...=> The very 100% Norman Battle...= Bretons+ Angevins+Poitevins + Manceaux+ Flanders+Bourguignon+ Picards and the Norman (40%/50% of total contingent...)
The Norman were an opportunist Gang... that's all
Without the Norwegian army in the north (6000-6500 soldiers) William would have never won Hasting and kill Harold Godwinson the Great of Saxon descent, from Wessex
The Wessex lineage were one the best warrior
davidbreizh 5 months ago
@davidbreizh You are completely correct, William won at Hastings by default. If Harold doesn't have to fight the Vikings in the north before he meets William, Harolds larger, stronger, fresher army defeats William.
EnglishHuscarl 5 months ago
@EnglishHuscarl
In fact William premeditated everything before his war campaign...
There is chronicles also to say that at Senlac William sent scouts to see the result of the campaign of Harald Hardrada in the north...
William had also planned mason-builders in his army who were responsible for consolidating the fortress of Senlac after a first engament, so he could retreat to a fortress siege warfare if Horold won a first engament...
davidbreizh 5 months ago
@davidbreizh
Conan II was the Duke of Brittany and was against William. During the month of December 1066 it will go on the attack in the allied fiefs of William (Maine Anjou ... => south of Normandy), he took several towns but died on December 11, 1066 by poison, by a traitor on the orders of William the Bastard, suspected of ordering the killing. (William was crowned on December 25 at Westminster Abbey)
davidbreizh 5 months ago
@davidbreizh
When we read the chronicles of this time it is clear that william organized an opportunist schema, prepared to use Harold and his soldiers for the siege of Dinan in Brittany a little earlier, and so causes a geopolitical shift in Brittany where the east part of the Duchy will be at Hastings with William (the left army)
davidbreizh 5 months ago
@davidbreizh How would he be able to build a fortress after losing a first engagement? I know the Normans brought over a prefabricated wooden castle, but it wasn't at Senlac, and it wouldn't of been much use if it were surrounded by a much superior force in hostile territory.
EnglishHuscarl 5 months ago
@davidbreizh
I wonder why you don't mention the battle of Civitate were the Normans completely outnumbered by the armies of the pope, the German emperor and the Byzantine emperor won them in one single combat making the pope the leader of Christianity their prisoner.
After that the Normans ruled all of Southern-Italy and Sicily.
Then there is the Norman conquest of Antioch etc.
Don't be jealous now just because the Breton counts paid their homage to the Norman dukes.
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre
Je te rapelle ami normand que la basse-neustrie à été incapable de repousser les scandinaves et que une fille se disait "hóra" => une putain....
l'ecosse, la bretagne(Alan Barbetorte), l'irlande (brian boru), le sud ouest (guillaume II Sánchez ) on tous repoussé les scandinaves...lol sauf la basse-neustrie...!!!
Aussi je te rapelle que la Normandie à reussie à se refaire envahir par les Plantagenet, Geoffroy V Plantagenêt, s'empare de la Normandie en 1144 ...lol
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh
Let me remind you that Brittany was owned by the Vikings of the loire
Let me remind you thar the "Scottish" Islands of Orkney and Shetland are still proud of their Viking origins they are not Celtic at all
Let me remind you that Geoffroy Plantagenet was helping his Norman wife and her Norman followers in a Norman civil war. Let me also mention to you that Geoffroy Plantagenet was a direct descendant of Rollon the founder of Normandy.
You still paid homage to the Norman dukes lol
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre
Tu confonds ton envie de prolonger l'histoire des Normands avec leur fin inevitable....à partir de 1136,Geoffroy Plantagenet concentra la conquête systématique de la Normandie...la suite est connue c'est le royaume Anglo-Angevin... => lignée d'Anjou tu n'as pas compris que les personnes qui traversent et se logent de l'autre coté de la manche etaient un ramassi d'opportunistes... et se justifient via des prébendes accordé pour des oeuvres de propagandes "Roman de Brut...etc"
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh I don't have to feel the need to prolong the history of us Normans, it's still ongoing. The first European king-ruler of the Canary Islands was the Norman Jean de Béthencourt in the 15th century. He was no Breton no more than Surcouf who's family originated from the Cotentin. Surcouf being a typical Norman family name of Scandinavian origins such as mine Anquetil ;)
There was no replacement of the Norman nobility in England with ppl from Anjou. Fantasy and dreams on your part lol.
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre
Tous les scandinaves en Bretagne furent vaincus et chassé...:-) ainsi la seul tombe à barque scandinave retrouvé est en Bretagne et non en Nor...ment...die...avec Athelstan les Bretons (cavalerie) ont vaincu à Brunnaburg 937 les Hiverno-scandinaves alié aux scot-Briton du Strat-Clyde Mathuedoï de Poher est chez les West Saxon d'ou il revient en en 936 son fils Drogon de Bretagne devient comte de Nantes et duc de Bretagne en 952 les vikings se sont fait pulvériser ...
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh
The Vikings might have been defeated but for a long time they were the masters of Brittany.
Not bad considering they were completely outnumbered by the Bretons. The Scandinavians frequently massacred the Bretons for over a century like in Nantes in 843. And let us remember when Nominoë after losing 3 times against the Vikings decided to verse them a tribute in 847 instead of fighting more.
Now the 44 is outside Brittany but Insular Normandy is still independent from the RF.
;)
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre Excuse moi mais Geoffroy V d'Anjou et son père ne sont pas de Rollon....tu rêves !!!!!!!...
la ligné vient du mâle amis..
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh
I don't have to dream of anything. Geoffroy was a direct descendant of Rollon of Normandy.
He descended from Rollon on his mother side it still means he descended from Rollon.
just fact as did Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Viking blood runs in the great ones as Viking blood is great ;)
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
@davidbreizh The Normans from Normandy went on to Conquer all S-Italy and Sicily creating the Kingdom of Sicily and under the Norman king Roger II a part of Libya.The Normans under Bohemond conquered Antioch.The Normans with William conquered England with the help of their obedient Breton & Flemish followers.With Béthencourt Normans also conquered the Canary Islands
The literature of the kingdom of England was composed in Norman not French, Gallo, Breton or Angevin.
What did the Bretons do? ;)
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre
Je viens de comprendre un truc extraordinaire tu me dis que tu t'apelles "Anquetil"
====> Tu sais ami que tu es le plus gros "suce boulle" des Anglais du web...
Tout le web te connais....lol
Je te rapelle que le breton lui est toujours pratiqué ami...et il n'y as jamais eu de seconde normandie car les Breton on pulvérisé tes potes... ==> en plus tu fais des recensions historique...;-)
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh
Behind your identity is a self hating Breton known all over YT for licking the ass of the French. The same people who said the Bretons were animals and their Celtic language fit for pigs
NB there are 2 Breton languages, one is Celtic and one is an Oil language. We Normans still have our Norman Oil language, the same used by the Norman nobility of England for 300 years ;)
That said Breton achievements can't be compared with those of Normandy
Keep being jealous of us Normans lol
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre tu parles comme un enfant et parles de jalousie tout le temps ;-) la principale réalisation de tes potes c'est trois guerre de cent ans car les conséquence vont se faire sentir très tardivement....car tout au long de leur histoire les Anglais vont hair la langue française... je te rapelle que aucun secteur en france n'a une continuité continu de la langue comme c'est le cas en Bretagne les vénète en realité les wenned (dissimilation) se retrouve en gwenned de l'autre coté..etc
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh
You're a self hating Breton, not my problem. I am not the one who said the Bretons were sub humans and the Celtic language of Brittany fit for pigs, your masters the French did. No wonder Welsh is doing better
Men from Normandy conquered lands in three continents when the Franks were still in Europe. The legacy of Normandy reaches from Ireland to Antioch and from Scotland to Malta
Today a part of Normandy is not under the RF but the 44 was taken out of Brittany, deal with it.
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre tu me parles comme si tu pensais que je suis un nationalo-breton...???
A te voir vraiment t'as rien compris à ce qui s"est passé depuis le debut sur cette île...
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh
No I don't take you for a proud Breton, I take you for a self hating Breton sucking French cock.
I take you for a person who is with a big mouth and no balls, basically I take you for a Frenchman not a Breton.
I shit on France and your petty French nationalism.
Let's talk on Skype my skype name is eulhintaer, Then we can exchange phone numbers and see if you are as cocky then as you are here, hein mon gars ;)
As a person from Normandy I have nothing but contempt for the French
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
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davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh
And being the pussy you are you removed your comment lol.
As I said the French have big mouths and no balls.
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punkvictim 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre hey dumbass, the Normans we're actually of Viking decent and owned/lived in their own part next to France
shaneyjcs 3 months ago
@shaneyjcs
Hey fucker I am a Norman, from Normandy and my family name is of Norman Scandinavian origins and I know my history better than a fucking Yank who does not even know what happened yesterday.
The Normans were a mixed bunch of Scandinavian, Gaulish, Saxon & Frankish elements.
So you can as well say they were of Gaulish (Celtic) descent.
Fact is the Normans were a result of Mixing just like the English.
Don't try to teach me my history fucker.
LaNormandieLibre 3 months ago
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@LaNormandieLibre
T'es un cas unique sur le web => "LaNormandieLibre"=> "THE SUCK BALLS"
"LaNormandieLibre" ===> It's sound so freeeeeennnchhhh...!!!! lol
you're a psychiatric bouncer, liar, fibber, storyteller, who rewriting history on his keyboard...
Conseil => relis tes post ami
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@LaNormandieLibre
Hasting: => drôles L'armée Normande= Bretons + Angevins + Poitevins + Manceaux + Flandre + Bourguignon + Picards et les Normands ...
=>gang opportuniste célébré par les "suces boulles"...
CC=> 2 guerres de cent ans et un etat-nation france débile... et des Anglo-saxons qui haïssent les français...leur langue leur etat-nation débile
davidbreizh 4 months ago
@davidbreizh
The army at Hastings was half Norman the rest being mostly Bretons & Flemish, then came mercenaries from all over including Normans from Norman ruled S-Italy. The commanders of the army were Normans. William the Conqueror, his brother Odo and Williams best friend William FitzOsbern.
La Grande armée, what a funny "French" army composed of Dutchmen, Italians, Saxons, Prussians, Bavarians, Austrians, Poles, Swiss etc and Frenchmen...
The Grand Armée lost, the Norman army not lol.
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
But it did serve a great purpose, it broadened the English vernacular and garnished it with new terms and ways of writing and speaking. It all worked out so that by the time of Shakespeare and Milton and even Chaucer, The English language had words and terms for description that transcended the gutteral Phonemes of merely one or two syllables that the Germanic Anglo-Saxons had used. Plus it helped do away with the use of Latin.
DeMarkieSade 5 months ago
I doubt that the Norman French alone could have taken the anglo-saxons who were mixed with the Italians from Rome, since Rome had control of england prior to the anglo-saxons, and Prior to Rome, the Celtics lived there. So it was mixed breeds fighting mixed breeds claiming to be pure. Which is the case throughout history, most times. If it were not for the fact that the French themselves had already capitulated or succumbed to the Vikings, they wouldnt have won at hastings.
DeMarkieSade 5 months ago
@DeMarkieSade romans never controlled England cause it didn't exist at the time and instead of calling them anglo saxon's why do you call them English as that is what they called themselves in 1066.
redcoatsrule 5 months ago
@redcoatsrule My bad, Redcoat, I like the name also. I am not a troy or loyalist, however. I believe in change and democracy and in not having a Monarchy or Royal Absolutism dictating what can be written and disbursed as literature, films, plays, and as all artistic forms. For such is the right of the people to be what they are---people---and individual spirits.
DeMarkieSade 5 months ago
It is their God given right to voice their opinions and to fraternize and opt for change when too many constraints are being placed upon them. My bad, also, they were indeed Anglish=English at the time of The Battle of Hastings.
Yet they were still mixed, a mixed population, as are all societies when broken down. Celtic, Romans, then the Danes even came through a few times depredating the area, king Alfred the Great however defeated them, but some lingered no doubt. Dont forget the Diaspora
DeMarkieSade 5 months ago
@DeMarkieSade i am indeed English i'm not royalist either, i never had to learn latin and i dont know anyone who is learning it only languages i could take were german,french and spanish.
most of the time i've seen it spelt Englisc and not anglisc like seo stow is gehaten Heofonfeld on Englisc or the east Engle though i have seen it before, you dot like old englisc do you?sounds like you prefer all this foreign influence?there was back in old english but not half as much as there is today.
redcoatsrule 5 months ago
@redcoatsrule I cannot understand one word that you have written amid this dribble. Please learn to write using the English which evloved from anglo's Anglism Anglish, before responding to me. and yes i know, different parts of England have different dialects and such.
DeMarkieSade 4 months ago
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redcoatsrule 4 months ago
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redcoatsrule 4 months ago
@DeMarkieSade seo stow is gehaten Heofonfeld on Englisc "the place is called heavenfield in English" it's anglo saxon or anglish as you call it and i call Englisc like many people do.
i never mentioned anything about dialects and accents wasn't going to either, i was on about you don't like old English and prefer all this foreign influence and what was written was perfectly fine English.
anglo's anglism anglish is nonsense looks like you need to learn to write not me.
redcoatsrule 4 months ago
@redcoatsrule You must not know much. Everyone knows that the Anglo tribe was the most formidable and largest, ergo lending their name ANGLO=ANGOLAND, then it became England from Anglish. Why do you think people refer to those who have a love for England as an "Anglophile"? or people who fear it as suffering from "Anglophobia"?
DeMarkieSade 4 months ago
if you had taken some time to view my youtube channel you'd see my video 1066:when our England died you'd know that i already know these things so i have no need of your so called teachings.
the angles most formidable? yes they had their time of dominance over surrounding kindoms but the anglians didn't do to well against the danes did they or the picts at nechtansmere(imagine if they won that ). you should check out anglo saxon foundation my name is Englisce fyrd on asf.
redcoatsrule 4 months ago
@redcoatsrule I am going to check out the Anglo-Saxon foundation and look for you "Englisce fyrd.” In addition, I will check out your YouTube channel as well. I want to learn and no about the history of this stuff.
DeMarkieSade 4 months ago
@redcoatsrule. I know the Danes attacked England during the reign of "King Alfred the Great" and he dispatched and routed many of them; yet, some did indeed settle and remain there brining their culture and bits of their language, which we owe much, especially the pronouns and such--or so we have been taught here in America.
DeMarkieSade 4 months ago
@redcoatsrule. However, as I said, I want to know more from the people who live there and who actually know the facts from the time of Arthur, to King Ethelbert, to Saint Augustine, to Alfred the great, etc.
DeMarkieSade 4 months ago
@redcoatsrule Hey red coat, I coudnt find you on the web site so send me the specific url so we can talk on there if you don't mind. I want to learn more about the old country.
DeMarkieSade 3 months ago
@redcoatsrule of the jews from Rome either, which many crossed the Caucus mountians and crossed the English channel.
But nevertheless, I was mainly talking in respect to how it all help to evolve what we now call the English language. Bits of Celtic, Latin, French, and Greek even (probably coming from some of the Romans) to the Germanic Anglish= English we speak now, after centuries of alterations and amending. I am glad I am a native speaker of the language myself.
DeMarkieSade 5 months ago
@redcoatsrule Also, I have heard this and I wonder if it is true and to how wide spread it is if it is indeed true, but is Latin making a come-back in the schools and as a secondary langauge again in parts of England, or Great Britain rather? I figure you may know this redcoat, I take it you are from England or GB, or just an Angliophile, which is okay too.
DeMarkieSade 5 months ago
Normandy or Normandie, region of France along the English Channel. It became known as Normandy about 911, when France turned it over to a band of Vikings.
911 to 1066 . The Vikings had gained control of Normandy France through an armistice or peace treaty in 911 and the Battle of Hastings took place 155 years later. So, it wasnt just the French that conquered King Harold, as the guy in the video Stated, it was bastards of French and Viking (Danish) descent.
DeMarkieSade 5 months ago
Normans were French, not Viking, and that is an irrefutable fact. Not trying to be offensive, just letting history do the talking
NScott45 6 months ago
@NScott45
no, they were a mixture of Viking and celtic
wing2912 6 months ago
@wing2912 in the same way we're all africans. Normans spoke frankish, lived a frankish lifestyle, had frankish culture, and their genes are way closer to the franks than their ancestral vikings. So no, they are french.
NScott45 6 months ago
@NScott45 No they were not, they were Norsemen who settled in northern France
TalonMercenary 5 months ago
@TalonMercenary [sigh], yes, and you're an african who migrated through europe and asia and th americas
NScott45 5 months ago
@NScott45 Wrong. My ancestors thousands of years ago may have been but I, and no one else alive today are not. William was separate from the French court. Hell, even the word Norman and Normady comes from the term "man of the north". Read a book and in the very first sentence you know you're wrong. Besides...you're French so you're obviously going to claim some kind of victory over the English
TalonMercenary 5 months ago
@TalonMercenary Indeed Norman means "men from the north" and indeed their ancestors were viking. But they spoke french, obeyed to the french crown, had french culture and lifestyle, and most of all, their genetics were far closer to the french than the viking.
"Read a book and in the very first sentence you know you're wrong" I have read many, and they all confirm you are wrong
"you're French so you're obviously going to claim some kind of victory over the English" what? just stop hating, ok?
NScott45 5 months ago
@NScott45
We Normans are Normans not French. Normandy is divided in 2 today but both are Normandy and not talking about Haute and Basse Normandie.
There is continental Normandy where I am from and Insular Normandy (Guernsey & Jersey) both are Normans.
The official legislation of insular Normandy is still Norman law as was for us until 1806. But to become a lawyer or Judge in Insular Normandy you must learn Norman law in Caen.
We are Scandinavian-Gaulish-Saxon in origins.
Inform yourself.
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
Some of these blogs are nosense talk! My surname is Pettitt (Petite) My orgins are French! They came over after the Normans invaded, THEY WERE NOT VIKINGS!!! people forget or choose to forget that they came from all parts of France to settle in England and southern Italy, the name Petite is clamed to come from a reigon south east of Paris - Burgundy.
JamieA44 6 months ago
@JamieA44 I also read somewhere that their were french people living in Britain even before the conquest...
Johnny158371 4 months ago
Where's william wallace?
1988scottcarey 6 months ago
@1988scottcarey He's a traitor, that rebeled about 300 years after. His ancestors may have been fighting at hastings, as his family was most-likely a rich Landowner, of English decent.
300warrior300 6 months ago
@1988scottcarey this was hundereds of years before that and the english as we know them didnt exist at that time this battle was between anglo saxons and normans from france.
JordoF6 6 months ago
Roy Cropper certainly knows a lot about the Battle of Hastings :P
mancmusic1 6 months ago
French are not of norman ascendense only. There are more share of blood on the historical french. Normans were vilings established initially in northern france and then expanded into england ans sicily cause of their pirate instinct. And the english of those days were not only saxons but also brits and celts.
ledjorge 6 months ago
it's funny as the English are hard to admit Normans was French, say "the Normans were not French, they were vikings", it's like saying humans are not humans they are monkeys, because monkeys is human ancestors. it's stupid, to day, humans are different to monkeys, like normans were also different to their vikings ancestors.normans spoke french and they had nothing to do with vikings, and french people pure blood also come from normans people, so what you saying is really stupid
cardett75 7 months ago
@cardett75
Normans did not speak French but Norman. Our language the French falsely call patois is a separate Oil language, the French language is only one of the many Oil languages not the original source.
Inform yourself and google "Langue Normande"
The origins of Gallo-Roman Oil languages did not start from the Paris region were the Francian Oil language evolved.
Norman was written down in literature before Francian was.
Norman and Picard are officially recognized in other countires.
LaNormandieLibre 4 months ago
could I have english cc to get more accurate comprehension?
1bkmds 7 months ago
The French actually won a war!
I find that hard to belive. They are a coward race.
thicky7ern 7 months ago
@thicky7ern The Normans were not French.
AquilaRomana8 7 months ago
@thicky7ern
Johnny158371 4 months ago
@Johnny158371 I dont think the French are a coward race...
Johnny158371 4 months ago
Well if the saxons has won, England would be a very different place today. Only the slightest thing can change histroy forever
TalonMercenary 7 months ago
Normans were considered French or Franks, as they were a continental power. However, this does not mean they are pure French. They have Viking stock, intermarried with French populous/culture/technology/religion. They have been assimilated to a degree.
However, England has its roots the the Anglo-Saxons primarily and also to Normans as well. We cannot disregard the heritage of the Anglo Saxons and the Normans. They all contributed to the formation of modern England.
dishwasherman83 8 months ago
@legomyeggo713 and King Harold was married to the sister of the king of denmark.
Danfitz2010 8 months ago
According to the Domesday Book, this is where the beginnings of my family name are from, well from Normans. Then the family lived in Leicestershire, England. Surnames were not really used up until this time. Then in America in 1639 on the ship Susan Constant arriving in Virginia. My name is named after a place in Normandy, and it does sound French! Cool to know that I may be some part Viking, English and American. Nice to know the history where you come from. My mothers name was Scottish.
Guppy915 8 months ago
Saxons were a confederation of old germanic tribes, Germans.. the Saxons are not any more "English" than the Normans were at that time.
MrDataCode 8 months ago
@MrDataCode There were more English because they lived and ruled the country, they regarded themselves as distinct from Normans socially and culturally, and had laws/government that were particular to Saxon England. I would agree that modern notions of England and France don't help, but to say there was no difference at all at the time is not accurate.
THthefirst 8 months ago
Got an exam with an essay on this tomorrow! i recon ill get an a+
youpkmt988 8 months ago
so the surname BERRY IS FRENCH, NOT ENGLISH..shit..
chadberry75 9 months ago
I was wondering what if Duke William of Normandy submited the Kingdom of England to King Philip I of France or established a new country about Normans instead of acceding to the throne of England... Would there not be a country as the UK in Great Britain right now..?
Yeah, surely the UK wouldn't be as it is today if all of that historical events weren't be experienced. Even though, existence of normans and influence of their language is't that important, the history of England in cotton yarn!?
aalexxanderr 9 months ago
the normans changed the english language , and they introduced the class system, not really a positive contribution, the normans accepted the multi faith system in sicily/malta which was arab/muslim. also the norman empire was multi cultural, the saxon way of life was a more basic way of life, but the normans continued with the same ideology as the romans, being multi cultural, why did the normans persecute the saxons so much? pointless
74stigma 9 months ago
not fucking battle boring saxons.
joebstarsurfer 9 months ago
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6:53 this bastard!!
likeasomebodyyyyyyyy 9 months ago
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likeasomebodyyyyyyyy 9 months ago
William is not a favorite of mine, but I'll give the devil his due. He's the ancestor of my wife at least three times over, and if William had died instead of Harold those Norman ancestors wouldn't have been part of her story. He was a capable, but a harsh, driven monarch. You didn't want to make him your enemy.
Fitzmartel 10 months ago
Fuckin' Normans.
Goddamn Viking motherfuckers.
chenalos 10 months ago
@chenalos Vikings forever! :)
TheGreentomato123 9 months ago
@chenalos Normans were French, not Vikings.
AuxaneD 9 months ago
@AuxaneD Normans were comprised of Viking who invaded Normandy. I think they were the majority and dominant force, especially in this battle. Viking Rollo was main person.
Guppy915 8 months ago
@Guppy915 Nope, more than 200 years after with total exogamy! They were even protecting French (and English) coasts from other potential Viking invasions. By language (Langue d'oïl dialect of Norman...), culture, religion, and even DNA Normans were and are French. Bayeux Tapestry : "Hic Franci Pugnant"...
AuxaneD 8 months ago
@AuxaneD no all norman noblity was of viking stock but the normans who were at the battle of hastings were also joined by french and britons alike
legomyeggo713 8 months ago 2
@AuxaneD well then explain the written history about my ancestor who came to Normandy with Hrolf in 885
legomyeggo713 8 months ago
@legomyeggo713 Cool for you to go that far back in your genealogy. Nothing to explain. 885 - 1066 = 181 years, almost 2 centuries, your ancestors closer down the line were Normans (of Viking ancestry for some) = French. Exactly my point! ;)
AuxaneD 7 months ago
@AuxaneD for fucks sake the Normans ain't french.
legomyeggo713 7 months ago
@legomyeggo713 Way to argument. Stop the propaganda. Normans were and are French. Vikings were Vikings.
AuxaneD 7 months ago
@AuxaneD You're wrong, Norman's were named that that because they were "NORTH MEN" in those times referring to vikings that came from the north. Meaning by blood they were not at all french. Owned.
IXSuperRadGamerXI 7 months ago
@AuxaneD normans were not french. they just lived in Normandy a part of france but they werent french. they are descendents of vikings.
patton395 7 months ago
I really enjoyed watching this! I just wish it was much longer! lol
ranchy888 10 months ago
the normans have literally forever won britain after the battle of hastings, snorky brits won't just admit, lmao.
Peppepoppldoppl 10 months ago