Who were the Normans?

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  • @KnowHistory
    @KnowHistory  6 місяців тому +8

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    • @tusk3260
      @tusk3260 3 місяці тому

      The Normans were French tho. Yes their ethnicity was viking, but they also spoke French so they were French.

  • @mercianthane2503
    @mercianthane2503 6 місяців тому +51

    Normans. The guys no one expected would change the face of Europe in multiple ways.

    • @KnowHistory
      @KnowHistory  6 місяців тому +21

      I myself learned too that they helped the first portuguese king to conquer Lisbon from the moors in Iberia during the reconquista, I was never taught this! I loved learning about them! Perhaps in the future there will be more videos about the Normans!

    • @mercianthane2503
      @mercianthane2503 6 місяців тому +5

      @@KnowHistory Wonderful!

    • @joetraders7476
      @joetraders7476 6 місяців тому

      AI ahh comment

    • @johnmanole4779
      @johnmanole4779 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@KnowHistory where is Alfred the great?

    • @SevenMacEleven
      @SevenMacEleven 4 місяці тому +1

      @@KnowHistoryafter 800 years of rule by the moors, you forget to include that part

  • @CharWick5
    @CharWick5 6 місяців тому +22

    Amazing work as always!! Loved the video, keep it up!

    • @KnowHistory
      @KnowHistory  6 місяців тому +2

      Thank you! I sure will!

  • @LukeAnthony94
    @LukeAnthony94 6 місяців тому +12

    Exceptionally made and fantastic narration as always!

  • @Shiranu17
    @Shiranu17 6 місяців тому +38

    It's so sad that most people's knowledge of the Normans is, "1066, William the Conqueror" - and nothing past that. Always love to see new videos about them, the peoples who built the foundations for modern Western Europe are not given nearly enough credit.

    • @KnowHistory
      @KnowHistory  6 місяців тому +7

      After reading a fair amount about them I got very interested in their history! I might do a couple more videos about the Normans all across the Mediterranean!

    • @scene2much
      @scene2much 6 місяців тому +4

      Its good research and reading: The Normans provided much support, chaos, and opposition to the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium). Everything in that 'Normanorum' text rang true.

    • @tylerhaines8662
      @tylerhaines8662 4 місяці тому

      😅7⁷67😮😅 2:14 6 2:14 😮😅😅66😅 2:16 2:16 😅7😅😮😅

    • @jacquesrenou2850
      @jacquesrenou2850 2 місяці тому +1

      My ancestors,Wragenwulf circa 975 and remained in the area to this day for the most part.Cheif of the wolf clan/ Wragenwulf. My last name derived from Wragenwulf to Renou,basically the same letters as the City Reoun rearranged .

    • @ulrikjensen6841
      @ulrikjensen6841 16 днів тому

      Why was it rearranged from "Rouen"?

  • @mindhistorydocumentary
    @mindhistorydocumentary 4 місяці тому +7

    The Normans were like medieval real estate agents-they showed up in England, said 'Nice place, we’ll take it,' and just… never left!

  • @foswa6335
    @foswa6335 6 місяців тому +15

    Great video with beautiful visuals.

  • @abdulazizclare9545
    @abdulazizclare9545 4 місяці тому +8

    Long live Rollo and the Normans. Bless them always the wolf among us.

  • @ashtonbarwick6696
    @ashtonbarwick6696 6 місяців тому +4

    Crusader kings is the only reference I have when I think about historical figures as to how they looked😂

  • @Jokesonyou123
    @Jokesonyou123 3 місяці тому +1

    I love how you use the ck3 map , good work mate 👍🏻

  • @zaidatimash713
    @zaidatimash713 6 місяців тому +5

    Love your content, keep up the good work. If I may ask, how is it that you make those amazing maps?

    • @KnowHistory
      @KnowHistory  6 місяців тому

      Thank you! I have a tutorial on how to do them on reddit, I'll link it!
      www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/l6v5ab/ck3_map_template/

    • @zaidatimash713
      @zaidatimash713 6 місяців тому +1

      @@KnowHistory this is amazing, thank you so much 🙏

  • @rawr2u190
    @rawr2u190 6 місяців тому +2

    Thank you, TIL

  • @kratosboy5557
    @kratosboy5557 Місяць тому

    Vikings:You can’t do this to Me, I started this Company DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?

  • @masahibbhatti4088
    @masahibbhatti4088 6 місяців тому +4

    This channels is gold bro. Use CK3 and explain the history there amazing stuff. I hope you cover a bit more of the islamic world and the indian subcontinent

    • @KnowHistory
      @KnowHistory  6 місяців тому

      Thanks! :D Due to my ignorance I don't know much about those places in the middle ages, that makes it a bit hard to get ideas, but if you have any sugestions, I am more than welcome to take them in! The only ideia i have at the moment is something on the lines of "Who were the Mamluks?"

  • @alarik36
    @alarik36 15 днів тому

    I did DNA -familyresearch, and as far as I know my mothers ancestors came from south Småland. And my MtDNA showed that I had a lot of ties, 30-40% hits were in N England. This means that far back in time, more than a thousand years we share a common female ancestor. I am related to f.ex. operasinger Christina Nilsson from Småland... Probably Canute and Swayn invited also like a thousand vikings from Småland to take part in conquest of England.. Other celibrities that have some roots here are Michelle Pfeiffer, Scarlett Johansson And Nina Persson in Cardigans...

  • @jonnybanjo3424
    @jonnybanjo3424 15 днів тому

    Rollo was a Norwegian viking by the name of Rolf, known as Gange Rolf (Walking Rolf). He was expelled from Norway by kong Harald Hårfagre (king Harold Fairhair) because Rolf engaged in domestic viking raids. He was not executed by the king because his father was an earl and a friend of king Harald. This is quite well documented in sagas and scripts by, among others, Adam of Bremen, so the claim in the video of scarce sources is quite questionable.

  • @scene2much
    @scene2much 6 місяців тому +1

    Somehow "The Allied Invasion of Nuestria lacks a certain 'gravitas'."

  • @DarrenRFC
    @DarrenRFC 6 місяців тому +1

    Danny dyer from football factory is a descedent of Rollo🤣

  • @Equilibrium-Manifesto
    @Equilibrium-Manifesto 2 місяці тому

    So almost all of my extensive English genealogy work has led me to nothing but Norman, a few Flemish, and a few Scottish family names which, other than Scottish, all originate in Normandy area but remained in England from 1066 until the 1600s when they came to America. I’m astonished to find I test as having no English ancestry but lots of Germanic and Scandinavian ancestry along with some Scottish ancestry. Is it possible that these families managed to only marry amongst eachother and maintain a Norman ancestry differing from the English population for 600 plus years and manifest itself on my genetics tests as Germanic and Scandinavian? I was always told I was German and had no knowledge of the English origins and find it pretty astonishing if so many lines managed to be a distinct ethnic group living in England for so long. They were all prominent aristocrats and descendants of William and Rollo which I’m sure is common, but I can’t imagine many have so much English geographic ancestry without the genetic ancestry of English

    • @MightyCdG
      @MightyCdG Місяць тому

      Do you know your y dna haplogroup

    • @Equilibrium-Manifesto
      @Equilibrium-Manifesto Місяць тому

      @ I don’t. I just did ancestry. Both my parents did 23&me I wonder if theirs would tell me

    • @alarik36
      @alarik36 15 днів тому

      I did DNA -familyresearch, and as far as I know my mothers ancestors came from south Småland. And my MtDNA showed that I had a lot of ties, 30-40% hits were in N England. This means that far back in time, more than a thousand years we share a common female ancestor. I am related to f.ex. operasinger Christina Nilsson from Småland... Probably Canute and Swayn invited also like a thousand vikings from Småland to take part in conquest of England.. Other celibrities that have some roots here are Michelle Pfeiffer, Scarlett Johansson And Nina Persson in Cardigans...

  • @AndrewMercieca
    @AndrewMercieca 6 місяців тому +4

    I am still amused that my ancestor, William Duc du Normandy, ended up marrying a descendant of Charlemagne : Matilda of Flanders.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 6 місяців тому +3

    Nice video

  • @alarik36
    @alarik36 3 місяці тому

    Many came from Skåne: Hougby-Hyby, Fullto-Fulltofta, Iveto-Ivetofta, Bourgeby-Borgeby etc...

    • @ulrikjensen6841
      @ulrikjensen6841 16 днів тому

      @alarik
      Could be from Sealand (Sjælland) as well

    • @alarik36
      @alarik36 15 днів тому

      @@ulrikjensen6841 Certainly...

    • @alarik36
      @alarik36 15 днів тому

      @@ulrikjensen6841 Selvfölgelig...

  • @ulrikjensen6841
    @ulrikjensen6841 16 днів тому

    Viking is not a race, but an occupation and a way of living on the sea; rape is NOT "uncool", but a crime - also in the medieval times.

  • @gaynor1721
    @gaynor1721 3 місяці тому

    There was no shortage of women in Scandinavia. Vikings had wives *and* mistresses to whom they were loyal and fiercely defensive. It's a myth that Vikings were rapists, too, concocted by Victorians in their Sagas stories to instill xenophobia in the British. Scandinavian children are taught to hold their heads up high, whenever anyone starts accusing Vikings of being rapists. Only one in 33 British men have Viking DNA, which also debunks the myth.

  • @valfa-c2o
    @valfa-c2o 3 місяці тому +3

    the Normans don't speak French in their palates, a language d'oïl (Latin) the Normans... And not to mention that the Nordic language, Normannic, endured 400 years after the colonization of France... He didn't have a French culture, but a Norman one.... good video I'm happy to know your channel

    • @seigneurcanardo7030
      @seigneurcanardo7030 2 місяці тому +1

      Norman language is a langue d'Oil, like Francien, Picard, Gallo or Angevin...

    • @valfa-c2o
      @valfa-c2o 2 місяці тому

      @@seigneurcanardo7030 That's what I'm saying 💀

    • @seigneurcanardo7030
      @seigneurcanardo7030 2 місяці тому +1

      @@valfa-c2o and Norman is the result of rollo and 5000 men mixed into 110.000 locals in neustria, in 911. They depicted themselves as "Francii" on bayeux tapestry, spoke norman french, were catholics, adopted french feudal system ans gothic architecture... William was a descendant of Charlemagne, begged his suzerain, the King of France for help at the battle of Val Es dunes and cross the Channel with normans, bretons and king of France soldiers from flanders, an another dukedom vassal of King of France. That's why I can pronounce your royal motto better than you...

  • @haroldgōdwinessunu
    @haroldgōdwinessunu 6 місяців тому +4

    I hold a grudge against the Normans for 1066, for the destruction of the Old English language.

    • @KnowHistory
      @KnowHistory  6 місяців тому +14

      On another hand, it's thanks to that that English is so intelligible for many other European languages! Have you heard of Anglish?

    • @thegoon33
      @thegoon33 6 місяців тому +3

      @@KnowHistoryold English survived for 200 years after the conquest. English was already changing due to the Danes. Old English in Scotland didn’t experience the Norman conquest but it still evolved into Scots. I would blame the Angevins for all the French in English.

    • @Johnnybomb1
      @Johnnybomb1 5 місяців тому +1

      Get over it you dork. You sound like Tolkien waxing poetic about that shit.

  • @gilbertobertozzi7510
    @gilbertobertozzi7510 6 місяців тому

    I ❤ Roberto il Guiscardo

  • @m.forrestal5893
    @m.forrestal5893 3 місяці тому +1

    Quite a disappointing video considering that nearly half of it is given over to advertising your video war games... Added it which, the Normans also extended their influence to Ireland, particularly the South-east of the country. Strange you didn´t include that fact when showing their outreach into the UK. Note, I come from Norman stock!

    • @calum5975
      @calum5975 22 дні тому +1

      A very small amount of the video was assigned to the sponsorship, hardly half.
      The norman invasions of Ireland were after this story.
      Look at 8:40, it CLEARLY shows Ireland having extensive norman settlement.
      Are you refering to the later map that specifically shows the Kingdom of England? Why would that map include the Anglo-Norman Irish?

  • @Trueblue222
    @Trueblue222 5 днів тому

    Ironic that the French are always bitching that their language is becoming overly Anglicised when their ancestors bastardised Old Englishe in the first place.

  • @vitorfreitas1682
    @vitorfreitas1682 6 місяців тому +2

    British or Portuguese?

    • @KnowHistory
      @KnowHistory  6 місяців тому +3

      Me: Portuguese
      Narrator: British

  • @ccmetalhead
    @ccmetalhead 5 місяців тому

    Oh my God wow 30 seconds in and I'm being shilled a game

  • @mingthan7028
    @mingthan7028 2 дні тому

    Ah..yes the guys who ruined English spelling

  • @FrithonaHrududu02127
    @FrithonaHrududu02127 6 місяців тому +1

    Dismissed as Viking savages these dudes were politically astute LAMF, Managed to rule from Ireland to Outremer, still have descendants on thrones today... pretty impressive (except for the rape thing, that was uncool)

  • @majorstack7214
    @majorstack7214 16 днів тому

    Viking is not a race.

  • @sp00kyd00ks
    @sp00kyd00ks 17 днів тому

    T. Norman here, you must not know your alphabet. it's AD not CE...
    "Historians"

  • @RuislipResident-v7p
    @RuislipResident-v7p 6 місяців тому

    AD

  • @eversor10
    @eversor10 6 місяців тому

    >CE

  • @rickybroussard5350
    @rickybroussard5350 Місяць тому

    I have Norman genetics from my mom’s side

  • @Bcwildgreen
    @Bcwildgreen Місяць тому

    The Vikings or the original inhabitants of Europe. On Google maps you recognize Europe as all farmland. And city. What happened in North America to the indigenous happened in Europe. To find a good European you have to go where the forests are.

  • @thelordofgifts5343
    @thelordofgifts5343 5 місяців тому

    Ck3 gang

  • @luketracey3269
    @luketracey3269 2 місяці тому

    Or ..more importantly! Who am I now ?

  • @luketracey3269
    @luketracey3269 2 місяці тому

    They were native Irish . ..are to be exact !

  • @marvin23232323ify
    @marvin23232323ify 4 місяці тому

    AD