You should add Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, former Varangian Guard of the Emperor of Rome, to the mix.
Poor Harold managed to stop him before succumbing to a bad case of arrow in the face while fighting William.
The whole story is amazing, including the previous guy being an ambiguous moron in pointing out an heir.
MUH VARANGIAN GUARD
He'd got his shit kicked in even if he somehow beat godwinson like William Iron-Arm did it italy. Normans just had better soldiers and tactics.
moron-kun, the Saxon Varangian that botched so much happened AFTER the event on the OP. The two things are actually connected, to the point that they lost a battle due to being isolated chasing an hated enemy - the Norman.
Also, more imporantly moron-kun, Harald has an amazing story that goes from Constantinople to Anatolia to the Levant to Sicily back to Kyiv then to Norway. THEN to Ingerland.
The other two kings, especially William, have similar histories but Harald's is the richest.
>Also, more imporantly moron-kun
Learn to read and to understand the point of a conversation you fricking autist.
This is why none can stand you in person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Olivento
Here it is wikipedia is such SHIT I don't know how people navigate this shit site.
>Also, more imporantly moron-kun
Learn to read and to understand the point of a conversation you fricking autist.
This is why none can stand you in person.
If the Normans already met Hardrada it would make the story more interesting as a 3vs3 story.
This would be a great TV series but we all know what would happen.
That's what I always thought. It was almost like God or whatever intended for that to be the final standoff but dumb Tostig fricked up so bad even fate itself changed/
Apparently Edward himself had agreed to support William for the throne. But he was coerced into it because he was being held hostage by William so I don't know how much that kind of oath was considered legal.
If it wasn't for Hardrada, Edward might have won and we would be living in a completely different world today.
The one show I wanted to rise out of GoT's prominence was this whole business about the English throne. From the lead up to Edward dying to the Harrying of the North.
I read somewhere that when the angles and saxons arrived in England, they found the native celtic women so ugly they shipped their own women from germany instead.
Well sorta. They're either dane vikings up norf or norman rape babies or the original britons.
Those descended from Danes aren't better off than their Anglo counterparts, and there were no Norman rapebabies, the Normans were a ruling elite who didn't intermix, they didn't leave behind a genetic presence in the wider population, I mean it wasn't until Henry IV that the Norman kings even learnt English
> According to some genealogists, more than 25 percent of the English population is also distantly related to William, as are countless Americans with British ancestry.
>THEY came, they saw, they conquered. But while the Romans, Vikings and Normans ruled Britain for many years, none left their genetic calling cards behind in the DNA of today’s mainland Caucasian population. That’s the message from the most comprehensive analysis yet of the genetic make-up of the white British population.
I'd rather get a Robert Curthose drama about him being a useless drunk loser and all his competent followers like the aethling seething.
Don't be mean to Robert, his brothers have already bullied him enough.
>big therefore stronger and better
You should add Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, former Varangian Guard of the Emperor of Rome, to the mix.
Poor Harold managed to stop him before succumbing to a bad case of arrow in the face while fighting William.
The whole story is amazing, including the previous guy being an ambiguous moron in pointing out an heir.
MUH VARANGIAN GUARD
He'd got his shit kicked in even if he somehow beat godwinson like William Iron-Arm did it italy. Normans just had better soldiers and tactics.
moron-kun, the Saxon Varangian that botched so much happened AFTER the event on the OP. The two things are actually connected, to the point that they lost a battle due to being isolated chasing an hated enemy - the Norman.
Also, more imporantly moron-kun, Harald has an amazing story that goes from Constantinople to Anatolia to the Levant to Sicily back to Kyiv then to Norway. THEN to Ingerland.
The other two kings, especially William, have similar histories but Harald's is the richest.
Wrong battle, idiot homosexual. The normans under William Iron arm beat Hardrada personally in southern italy.
>Also, more imporantly moron-kun
Learn to read and to understand the point of a conversation you fricking autist.
This is why none can stand you in person.
If the Normans already met Hardrada it would make the story more interesting as a 3vs3 story.
This would be a great TV series but we all know what would happen.
That's what I always thought. It was almost like God or whatever intended for that to be the final standoff but dumb Tostig fricked up so bad even fate itself changed/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Olivento
Here it is wikipedia is such SHIT I don't know how people navigate this shit site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Montemaggiore Also at this battle
Harald was a distant cousin of William or something like that, right?
I only remember Canute marrying any norman prostitutes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cnut_the_Great_family_tree
They're all fricking Danish
There is French (but perhaps more Frankish), Polish, Breton (from Brittany, not Briton), and even stupid sexy Flanders thrown in.
Apparently Edward himself had agreed to support William for the throne. But he was coerced into it because he was being held hostage by William so I don't know how much that kind of oath was considered legal.
If it wasn't for Hardrada, Edward might have won and we would be living in a completely different world today.
Nope
The one show I wanted to rise out of GoT's prominence was this whole business about the English throne. From the lead up to Edward dying to the Harrying of the North.
i have a weird gap there:
>1057 Macbeth (2015)
>1092 El Cid (1961)
has there really been no good movie made about it?
So from what I understand the ruling class of the UK are all Dutch descended and and uh um all the hobgoblin lookin aah poor people are the orginals
Well sorta. They're either dane vikings up norf or norman rape babies or the original britons.
I read somewhere that when the angles and saxons arrived in England, they found the native celtic women so ugly they shipped their own women from germany instead.
Norman descendants
Those descended from Danes aren't better off than their Anglo counterparts, and there were no Norman rapebabies, the Normans were a ruling elite who didn't intermix, they didn't leave behind a genetic presence in the wider population, I mean it wasn't until Henry IV that the Norman kings even learnt English
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2479271/1-000-years-invaded-need-Norman-like-Darcy-Percy-ahead.html
Article about how those of Norman descent still make up the upper class of England today
> According to some genealogists, more than 25 percent of the English population is also distantly related to William, as are countless Americans with British ancestry.
>THEY came, they saw, they conquered. But while the Romans, Vikings and Normans ruled Britain for many years, none left their genetic calling cards behind in the DNA of today’s mainland Caucasian population. That’s the message from the most comprehensive analysis yet of the genetic make-up of the white British population.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530134-300-ancient-invaders-transformed-britain-but-not-its-dna/
>Any good movies about the Norman Conquest of England?
>2 of the 3 kings are called harald and harold
>they all share a lion in their banners
what kind of talentless hack wrote this?
Very odd how some people try to pretend the Normans were french.