----- Message d'origine ----- De: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The Normans of course were frankified Norsemen. On their father's side apparently (well, great-grand-father's side since Rollon received Normandy as a fiefdom in 911 from Charles le Simple, king of the Franks and became one of its vassals). Most Norsemen then intermarried with local women. In any case, England was not only conquered and ruled by the Normans, it was also ruled by Angevins (the Plantagen�t) and a steady small stream of Frenchmen from Normandy and Western France settled in England. The Hundred Years war abrupty ended the Frenchification of England. Nearly missed being civilized...and speak French ;-) P. A.
