Tbf thats funny but the Norman’s were vikings who settled in France.
England belongs to France
English flag is also turkish. So technically we are all turkic.
I’m currently learning French so I can refuse to speak it as opposed to simply being unable
About a century too late there.
Conquered, not colonised, and certainly not founded. England was already pretty well established by the time of the Norman (not French) invasion.
France, invaded countless times, England has had no successful invasion for a thousand years. I think I can live with that.
Oh those cheeky Gallic scamp’s.
How could I stay mad at them
Angle-land, so…. More like new management
France was an English Territory which broke away you mean. France rightfully belongs to the King of England!
…founded…?
Deep down we are all African.
England had already been around as a whole country for about 150 years before Hastings, it was united by Æthelstan as a way to better fight off the vikings
The “Duke of Normandy” was a Viking named Rollo that France paid so he would stop taking all their shit.
Yeah well we Brits beat you in Waterloo
*Sips my tea*
/s
Repeat after me, kids: Normandy wasn’t French!
If Normans weren’t French, there’s a lot of people about to not be English anymore either.
England was we recognise it was created in 924….
As a Brit I endorse this message.
We all share a history. Stuff is complicated. I like your cheese and wine, fancy a beer?
*clears throat in viking*
That time the French massacred the northerners for resistance and that’s why the country is still massively imbalanced population wise
And why northerners are the only true Englishmen :p
England was founded over 100 years before the Norman conquest in 927
England existed well over a century before the Normans even got the idea to invade. The dream of a unified Anglo-Saxon nation can be attributed to Alfred the Great in the late 9th Century. Then his son Edward and grandson Aethelstan saw his dream realised with the conquering of the remaining Viking kingdoms in the 920’s. The Normans didn’t reach these shores until 1066.
This myth of England being founded by the Normans is exactly that. A myth. Their conquest changed the country forever, kickstarted a very long line of royal descendants and they had a huge influence on our culture and language, but they were not the founders. England literally derives from the Old English “Engla land” which means “land of the Angles.”
I thought it was the saxons that formed England and the Norman’s invaded them.
Wouldn’t that make it a filled German colony that kicked a lot of French ass after we kicked most of them out too?
It’s funny how this upsets some people. Ultimately, when you trace it back far enough we all came from the same soup.
Pfft. We had been invaded loads of times before the Normans rocked up. Just because you lot codified it doesn’t make you any better.
England; the proudest little island that hasn’t been invaded since the last time it was invaded and everyone forgot they never left.
But it also meant that later, the King of England was technically the King of France…
And France was founded by the Franks, who were a Proto-Germanic tribe…
Actually, from what I recall, the Vikings who cosplayed as French invaded England but then had to choose whether to become kings of England under France or give up their land in France, and choose the latter.
Basically, not a colony, although history is never quite as clean as that.
I mean, Northern France was British for a long old time. Hence the name.
It’s all fun and games, Putin claims the British started WW2, well technically we did declare war so maybe he’s right. Trump claims Zelenskyy started the war with Russia, well he did oust a pro-Russian leader but it’s more mental gymnastics.
So what about the Saxons, Vikings and Celts
It all started with those bloody beaker people and their daft clay beakers
I am happy to allow the French to be blamed for everything that is wrong with the world.
Æthelstan erasure.
It wasn’t the Normans tho….
It still wasn’t the native English lol, it was the Anglo-Saxons. Aethelstan is regarded as the first king of a unified England (not the same England as now 😂).
Hell, it’s the Angles we even get the name for England from lol
That went right*
Went right
The first king of the English was Æthestan, who was king 140 years before Hastings
I don’t think I can ever live a peaceful life knowing my ancestors were French
Per the feudal laws of the era the Duchy of Normandy was a sworn vassal to the Kingdom of France (hence why it wasn’t a kingdom and why William wanted to acquire the crown of England so badly), but only on paper. In reality, Normandy was much more militarily and economically powerful than France, which at that time was essentially Paris and the surrounding countryside. Most of what is now France was ruled by various dukes and counts, themselves also technically vassals to the king but de facto independent warlords who often intimidated and bullied France proper (and indeed the Norman vikings repeatedly besieged Paris and extorted their gold).
So yeah, ‘France’, never conquered England. Normandy, with the help of Brittany and Burgundy, did. People from those regions can crow if they want, but Parisians, Provençals and Périgourdins can go suck a 🥖!
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Tbf thats funny but the Norman’s were vikings who settled in France.
England belongs to France
English flag is also turkish. So technically we are all turkic.
I’m currently learning French so I can refuse to speak it as opposed to simply being unable
About a century too late there.
Conquered, not colonised, and certainly not founded. England was already pretty well established by the time of the Norman (not French) invasion.
France, invaded countless times, England has had no successful invasion for a thousand years. I think I can live with that.
Oh those cheeky Gallic scamp’s.
How could I stay mad at them
Angle-land, so…. More like new management
France was an English Territory which broke away you mean. France rightfully belongs to the King of England!
…founded…?
Deep down we are all African.
England had already been around as a whole country for about 150 years before Hastings, it was united by Æthelstan as a way to better fight off the vikings
The “Duke of Normandy” was a Viking named Rollo that France paid so he would stop taking all their shit.
Yeah well we Brits beat you in Waterloo
*Sips my tea*
/s
Repeat after me, kids: Normandy wasn’t French!
If Normans weren’t French, there’s a lot of people about to not be English anymore either.
England was we recognise it was created in 924….
As a Brit I endorse this message.
We all share a history. Stuff is complicated. I like your cheese and wine, fancy a beer?
*clears throat in viking*
That time the French massacred the northerners for resistance and that’s why the country is still massively imbalanced population wise
And why northerners are the only true Englishmen :p
England was founded over 100 years before the Norman conquest in 927
England existed well over a century before the Normans even got the idea to invade. The dream of a unified Anglo-Saxon nation can be attributed to Alfred the Great in the late 9th Century. Then his son Edward and grandson Aethelstan saw his dream realised with the conquering of the remaining Viking kingdoms in the 920’s. The Normans didn’t reach these shores until 1066.
This myth of England being founded by the Normans is exactly that. A myth. Their conquest changed the country forever, kickstarted a very long line of royal descendants and they had a huge influence on our culture and language, but they were not the founders. England literally derives from the Old English “Engla land” which means “land of the Angles.”
I thought it was the saxons that formed England and the Norman’s invaded them.
Wouldn’t that make it a filled German colony that kicked a lot of French ass after we kicked most of them out too?
It’s funny how this upsets some people. Ultimately, when you trace it back far enough we all came from the same soup.
Pfft. We had been invaded loads of times before the Normans rocked up. Just because you lot codified it doesn’t make you any better.
England; the proudest little island that hasn’t been invaded since the last time it was invaded and everyone forgot they never left.
But it also meant that later, the King of England was technically the King of France…
And France was founded by the Franks, who were a Proto-Germanic tribe…
Actually, from what I recall, the Vikings who cosplayed as French invaded England but then had to choose whether to become kings of England under France or give up their land in France, and choose the latter.
Basically, not a colony, although history is never quite as clean as that.
I mean, Northern France was British for a long old time. Hence the name.
It’s all fun and games, Putin claims the British started WW2, well technically we did declare war so maybe he’s right. Trump claims Zelenskyy started the war with Russia, well he did oust a pro-Russian leader but it’s more mental gymnastics.
So what about the Saxons, Vikings and Celts
It all started with those bloody beaker people and their daft clay beakers
I am happy to allow the French to be blamed for everything that is wrong with the world.
Æthelstan erasure.
It wasn’t the Normans tho….
It still wasn’t the native English lol, it was the Anglo-Saxons. Aethelstan is regarded as the first king of a unified England (not the same England as now 😂).
Hell, it’s the Angles we even get the name for England from lol
That went right*
Went right
The first king of the English was Æthestan, who was king 140 years before Hastings
I don’t think I can ever live a peaceful life knowing my ancestors were French
Per the feudal laws of the era the Duchy of Normandy was a sworn vassal to the Kingdom of France (hence why it wasn’t a kingdom and why William wanted to acquire the crown of England so badly), but only on paper. In reality, Normandy was much more militarily and economically powerful than France, which at that time was essentially Paris and the surrounding countryside. Most of what is now France was ruled by various dukes and counts, themselves also technically vassals to the king but de facto independent warlords who often intimidated and bullied France proper (and indeed the Norman vikings repeatedly besieged Paris and extorted their gold).
So yeah, ‘France’, never conquered England. Normandy, with the help of Brittany and Burgundy, did. People from those regions can crow if they want, but Parisians, Provençals and Périgourdins can go suck a 🥖!
How’s [Little Britain](https://snippetsofparis.com/history-of-brittany/)?
Bruh this is just ragebait
Normans came from Scandinavia, so if anything, England is a Norwegian colony gone wrong
England predates the Norman conquest, so this meme makes no sense.
Nodric actually and the duke of norman linage can be traced back to viking raiders and ragna lothbruks brother Rollo…
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