William the Conqueror, the Norman who dared to invade England 

man, england history is like game of thrones in real life

its crazy to the think that it changed the course of language,religion and history itself

By time 1066 invasion. The normans were fully French by now in language and customs and all. Three centuries mixing with the French made them no longer Danes, etc. They only spoke French and made no effort ruling england to lean English”

really well done. I quite enjoyed it.

So you mean to tell me that all these people in the comment section are related to this dude? 🤔

Crazy that his life isn't more known in France itself, considering the effect William's invasion of England had on French history. I mean had the invasion not succeeded, presumably the Anglo-Saxon England would have continued, the hundred years war probably wouldn't have taken place, and 1000 years of Anglo-French rivalry might not have happened.

So basically England was a French district, and made the English high class to be distinguished by speaking French for centuries, while the peasants and fishermen continued speakin the underestimated English. That's how hate towards anything French was born.

Interesting fact. When he took England, he eventually went back to Normandy, he did not try to incorporate the two as if they were the same realm, he ruled them separately and differently as if they were their own separate entities. He also would spend more time in Normandy overall, even when he took England.

rise and fall? he never did actually fall from power

Im related to my mother!

My grandmothers maiden name is Freeman which I traced back to translate to "De Fremingham" or "De Farningham" My norman ancestor was named "Ansgot Of Rochester"

Awesome

To people whining about their ancestry - you share 92% of your DNA with a mouse.

And thus began 300 years of French rule over England.

An Armor Bearer of Williams was my Great++++++ Grandfather Wyamarus Whalley. He was given the County Leicesture after the Battle of Hastings. I am doing research on this and it is so interesting.

produce something more about french history and culture and life style like this than US POLITICS that we get sickntired of

Please add English subtitle.

He was like really pissed when he found out Harold got the thrown

In 1996 I started a contract with Vodafone, by chance the last 4 digits of my number were/still are 1066. That year I left a VERY well paid job to start making and restoring armour for a living... I still don't know whether to blame The Battle of Hastings for this stupid career change or Vodafone? 😂

Our family can trace our lineage back to William Stoddart, the maternal, cousin of William the Conquerer. He was a part of his council and came with him to england.

I'm related to William the conquer on my dad's side of the family. He's done all his ancestry and I can't wait see it all soon!

I'm a descendent of King Henry I and my family are lords, ladies and sirs. I'm related to King Malcolm III of Scotland. Robert II of France and a direct relative of King Lothar II!

He'd have never have conquered England if the Saxons hadn't have had to fight off a Danish invasion 4 days earlier.

It's hardly unlikely that William & King Harald Hardrada of Norway didn't have a pact to invade England at the same time and split the kingdom. William was only held back a few days due to contrary winds. Or did he stall on purpose to wait for the outcome ? If King Harold 11 hadn't had to fight the Norwegian Army first, hundreds of miles away, he would have made short work out of William's army. There is no doubt though that William was a very brave if ruthless individual much like an angry wild boar in chain mail.

im a decendant of william my 29th great grand father was his uncle.

does "anything but ordinary" mean the opposite of what I thought it did?

Like this william Viking

Crazy to think, if he had died in that first invasion in 1066, I wouldn't be here today.

And then killed 100, 000 people in Yorkshire and other northern regions. Inculding villages that never raised their swords against him , men women children . He did like his masscares.

I would like to thank whoever decided to post this video to this site. The video on France 24 kept chinking, so it made things difficult to watch and listen. I have always been fascinated by William the Conqueror, the Normans and the Franks/French that decided to take on England in 1066. Their military tactics were absolutely brilliant. It is a shame that William and his Normans are frowned upon in British society. The Normans were brutal with their tactics, but I believe that the Saxons and their invasion of Britain was just as bad. It makes me wonder if British school children are taught only one side of the story that makes the Anglo-Saxons rise up on a pedestal and criminalises the Normans for doing the same thing that they did centuries earlier.That said, I would like to say that the earlier comments on this video (that aren't about what this video is about) is unnecessary. What does modern Islam have to do with William the Conqueror?

Damn vikings made huge impact 8th - 1066 ad

ik this is gonna sound weird but i am whatching to see how smart he is in order to find how smart Ancalagon the black is

Willian was a french hero and king which defeated the british and enslaved them fir 300 years and brought french language to the savage island.

Dedication, ambition, determination, greed, discipline, want, need, craving, thirst, hunger, hormones, horny, views, and vision could get you in those locations

William, son of Rollo, a Dane. His army, sons of Danes as well.

not sure if my family tree is correct, but i've traced my family back to william the conqueror, if his descendants went to de la hulle/Hill

Page 240 conker = n an informal name for the horse chesnut (Sense 2).

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Came here because he was mentioned in hoi4

My great grandfather

"I am a French Viking King of England. Your argument is invalid."

hello I had statue , I think it was william the conqueror if you want I'll send some photos

Dare I say my grandmother and us are off of William the Conqueror fact

Three English lions represent, Normandy, England and Aquataine.

can not hear !

Im related to this guy

okey nice setory

Hold on to your Allen's William

I'm a direct descendant of William the Conqueror and Rollo. The internet is freaking crazy!

I am related to William the Conquerer so I figured that I would do some research about him.

William The conquer was the reincarnation of Arjuna of mahabharat. In recent he taken birth as yognanda paramhans, the perfect yogi...

I'm a descendant of this dude.

My blood line goes back to him so this is a cool thing to watch for me 😊

So the host speaks English, and the interviewees understand English but speak French?

Stands to reason he's not a part of the curriculum in French schools, because then they have to explain the reason why Normandy is called Normandy and that William was descendant of a Norseman called Rollo. It opens up a can of worms that the French don't really like to talk about.

Not a word about the Huguenots desecrating William's tomb and only a leg bone survives. Long live the memory of king Harold.

William the conqueror is my 26th grandfather

Was William considered a usurper by the English people?

William the Conqueror is one of my relatives!

They were Vikings who held their own against the well-established Franks in their own lands. And on top of that conquered the Saxons and Danes on that still hotly-contested island, and also held their own against the Celts there. Among people who fought and fought well, they fought well and loved to fight, and fought to win, and won.

I found out today that I am related to him

OBAHMA claims he was .Nah he's not a viking he's a enemy

Very interesting stuff but I still don’t understand why this is impacted the western world so much. It’s as to say that the Anglo-Saxon of Britannia were inept and weren’t forging their own path. Also, for the people that are arguing whether the Normans were French or not, you cannot think in terms of how we do today. There were no nations. There were “peoples” and kings of those peoples. Charles III was the king of the western franks who appeased Rollo and gave him the land that later became Normandy. Norman’s spoke Norman French but are not French. As Belgians do, but they aren’t French either.

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I am French but never heard about this history , weird bc it is a big thing !In school it seems they just teach us the Gallo Romans ,Franks, Plantagenets ennemies louis XIV and ,loss of Nouvelle France because of stupid Louis XV , the great Revolution,wars and deafet of Napoleon ,Prusian wars/Alsace moselle and the 2 WW

One fact about I can tell you is harald hardradar and William both deserved the throne they are victims of Edward the confessor making false promises

2:45 my GOD England used to look like THAT

I feel like he glossed over alot of stuff.

I'm a descendant

#WilliamtheConqueror

Is anybody have this man as one of their ancestors besides me

Waiting for BLM to topple this

The French did conquer the Normans conquered England as the Normans were not French they were Frankish but they weren’t French you might ask then why did they put franks versus Saxons which translates today as French versus English on the bayeux tapestry then. Because one they spoke French and two Franks did not translate as French back then there were no French people technically the French didn’t come into the equation until the first king of the Franks started calling himself king of the French and even then France was very divided ethnically as well as England too. If you went back in time and asked a Burgundian if he was French he would say no I’m Burgundian if you asked him if he was Frankish probably say yes if you asked him if he was a Frank he’d say no the Franks are over there. But that said you might get a Burgundian a noble man who was a frank and identified as a frank. The Normans identified themselves as Normans and saw themselves as Normans but culturally they would say they were Frankish and that is probably why they said Franks not Normans fought Anglo-Saxons.

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Is William the Conqueror the first King of England? Why is he so important?

if l anderstand correctly Great britain belongs to France 😂 Canada belongs to France 😂 The english Will have to pay rent 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

It’s hard to believe that I’m descended from William the conqueror. From family I’ve been told that he is my ancestor, makes me really proud and ashamed at the same time lol doubt he would be proud of a fat 28 year old lol Need to lose weight

Harold Godwinson deserved to be king oof

Nor man Not french

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No anglo saxons all vikings

lol

He was NOT a norman. His D-N-A was not germanic

Some Alt right members have found their way back to this channel again..smdh

Please guys watch Wikipedia before written a commentary it will avoid you to write some bullshits like either William was a Viking or Scandinavian

His mother was Jewish so this doesn't make him Norman or white. He was the first Jewish king of England.

I’m a descendant of William the Conqueror..

lol