A Brief History of the Normans | Animated History 

TheSpartiatus I live in England and it’s not good lol

Ours also "Stanfield". Our ancestor fouut with Rollo at the battle of Hastings and was gifted the Stanfield castle. We then took on that last name.

why not scofield

Mine is glanville and that is also norman

@@naegabyeonhae8790 Scofield predates the Norman's if I'm not mistaken. By a good frequency hundred if not half a centuries worth of years. Still might be Norman but that last name originates outside Normandy as an origin. Still germanic and early germanic.

@@jillforsythe7133 Rollo didn't fight at the battle of Hastings

yeah you're basically a viking. lmao

Nice. My French side basically comes from Rollo inadvertently. His great or great great grand daughter. Then her great grandson iirc. Irish side goes back to a king who was baptized by st Patrick. English side is just old but got disposed by the Norman's. Dunno too much about that other then Anglo Saxons. So I've got viking or Saxon in me at multiple points.

@@bmxriderforlife1234 Nials of the Nine Hostages

Ahh, thanks now I know where my Sinclair cousins come from on my ftdna!

soooooooooooooooooooooooo dumb=you

@@yeetyeet6854 no u

+Francis Barnett Thank you! If you're interested, there is lots more information about 1066 and the Battle of Hastings on our website: www.english-heritage.org.uk/1066

I took the dna tests and that's quite true! I am related to Rollo first Duke of Normandy!

@@jimmyestrada3025 Are you the last Rollo?

@@davew4998 dude that's the saddest rollo.. the last one 😖

@@clipsedrag13 You're quite right. I would never take the last Rollo.

@@jimmyestrada3025 well hello distant relative. French lineage myself. But related to Rollo as well. Mine you can follow through paper documents and such. Had only done the digging up to Williams time till recently. Ironically I'm also related to one of the old Irish lines that got disposed by the Norman's. However this also means depending on line if that one French princess is ever found even if illegitimate heir we technically would relate to Charlemagne via marriage. And numerous other legendary peoples associated to Norman histories have been found to be real. This is what actually substantiated a few families claims in like the 19th century that they had old lineage going back to Williams time and his companions. Thus your old family also has ties to most likely at least 4 royal titles. Ireland Scotland maybe. And England and France if they still had a monarchy. And probably a few duchies.

1066 Normans were the Seventh generation of interbreeding with local French people, without renewal of Nordic blood. They were like 10% Danish and 90% French genetically, as well as 100% French culturally

@Halvor Eriksson also if one has ever seen a replica of William's ships, they look like viking longships. I don't know if that became a popular ship model to be used all over Europe, but at the first glance I immediately thought of classic longships. The presentation in the Falaise castle (it was William's keep) said the whole affair was more or less an internal feud between vikings, since Harold and William were related, and the area North of France up to England was viking territory more than France or England.

As soon as 2nd generation of viking settlers in Normandy, the vikings had already been quickly absorbed by local french population (such as famous William Long Sword) dna and martial spirit alone were insufficient to define an identity of a group of people.

Halvor Eriksson please don’t forget that frankish were a mixture of germanic and gaulish people. Thus, franks (northern french and southern belgium) were also half germanic. Besides, The Normans did retain viking martial spirit but there’s no evidence that they retained their nordic tongue since the second generation (Such as William Long Sword). Also they were vassals of french king, despite their relatively high degree of autonomy.

Halvor Eriksson a guy named Florian A. left a comment in another video. He quoted an excerpt from Cambridge Medieval History. (Volume 5, Chapter XV). By the end of reign of Richard 1 in 996, all normans became frenchmen

Dude. I know. But I'm also torn. I'm related sort of direct to Rollo and less directly to William. But they also basically ended my Irish sides royal line.

stephen10 tout à fait. En fait la seconde génération de vikings (par exemple Guillame Longue épée) ont été complètement assimilés à la population française.

@Halvor Eriksson thank you for the explanation.:)

they werent on the moon?

Not directly related to William but have lineage back to Rollo meaning William was a less immediate relative. My ancestors side actually a few sections of the family. We're granted land after 1066 by William directly.

@@bmxriderforlife1234 Greetings we are from many Kings. I have contact with the Gammage or Gammaches. One lived a few miles away and I didn't know until he posted stuff on a page on fb.

They did settle in Normandy their greatest strength was not by swords or arrows, but by mediation and integration..

Jimmy Estrada yes. And technically speaking the normans became stronger when they adopted the frankish’s cavalry tactics and city fortification skills.

It wasn't even a viking boat during the invasion, they lost their viking culture, they brings with them cavalry warfare, something unknown by the anglo-saxons or viking at the time

I agree with you, they were French invaders who had mixed with Scandinavians decades before, i believe its just British propaganda to keep up the arrogance that Britain is Superior to France and is unable to be invaded.

Karbine 34th lol Britain was a third rate country until acts of union. France was a long standing powerhouse centuries before that

The name Normans is not French although paying homage to the French king this area was totally reigned independently with a warrior culture that was very much aware of its origin. Normans are Normans, neither French nor Vikings. William the bastard a direct descendant of Viking royalty had claim to the throne through two bloodlines Viking and English. I am sorry to break this nationalist discussion, but William didn't identify himself with being French and I think that is most important. He saw an opportunity where he, as a bastard, could push a weak but well founded claim. When Harald of Norway helped the Danish claim to the throne, Goodwinson (himself of viking ancestry) was in a middle of a war with a viking opponent in the north - William saw the opportunity to open up a second front. William then met a decimated force that just a week previously have fought at Stamford bridge. And that force was not a third grade force - these were battle hardened housecarls well equipped with booty from the viking army they just defeated. William almost lost the battle and if Goodwinson's army hadn't pursued a retreat by williams main force, they would have stood their ground and there was little the cavalry could have done charging uphill. But a gap was made in the line and William took the prime of his force thrusting it into the gap however it was a make or break move. Only the speed of the horse made a difference in less than minutes on the battlefield. Goodwinson was killed and hence there weren't any successors to the throne. And the viking technique have survived till today in Normandy were a special dingue is still constructed the same way as a viking ship - so guys - the were Normans and identified themselves as Normans.

Get your facts right! Most British people think the Normans were French. The fact is they were second and third generation descendants of Danish Vikings. To keep the peace, the Franks (as the French were then called) gave the Danish Vikings land that they eventually called Normandy (the land of the north men or Norsemen). Normandy entirely belonged to the Danish Vikings and the Norsemen and the Franks did not mix. Each stayed in their own territory. DNA tests on Britons cannot distinguish the difference between Danish Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and the Normans as they are genetically too similar. The Franks (who were another Germanic race, closely related to the Germans from east of the River Rhine) mixed with the Romans and the French of today speak a form of Latin - a "romance" language, rather than a Germanic one, which is evidence they mixed with the Romans. The English language, on the other hand, belongs to the West Germanic group of Indo-European languages. The north of England was ruled by Danish Vikings under Danelaw and northerners have the highest percentage of Germanic DNA. Napoleon declared France a Roman Catholic country. Britain is largely a Protestant country, like the Scandinavian countries.

Okay so you want 90 % of RU-vid content gone then ?

Buhlmanzky lol 90% is a bit too much but you’re right, a large portion of content going viral on youtube will disappear haha