Recent content by Hus

We all know of the Axis War crimes - the Nazi Death/labour camps and the Japanese camps; etc, plus the thousands of smaller, sproradic and random atrociries committed against civilian and serviceman/woman alike, but which Allied actions were war crimes? The carpet bombing of Germany by the...

Chris, given that in early 1066 the Holy Roman Emperor gave Duke William's embassy his nominal support for the invasion of England, there must undoubtedly have been a force of German mercenaries with the Breton-Norman army? Also from Sicily and the many 'rival' regions of France (ie. Anjou)...

No, for us working/middle class people to trace ourselves back to Anglo-Saxon times would be very difficult to prove. Only the Queen and a few others have been able. I would think that there are a great many English people who are descended from the old AS nobility though? Tostig? Ansgar...

But, as the Normans 'looked down upon' the Anglo-Saxons, as Michael Wood suggested, then Duke William would have seen the king status as equal, or less, to that of Norman? Certainly he saw it as en extansion to his power and own status, let alone welath? This 'conquest' was where began the...

Imperium, this would be the Papal East/West schism? I hardly think that the supposedly corrupt and outdated Anglo-Saxon church (but whom the payments of 'Peter's Pence were up to date and paid regularly)- whom William kept almost intact for four years after the 'conquest', was doomed? The...

Did duke William come to England in 1051 and meet with King Edward, his (very) distant kinsman? Could he have risked leaving his [then] threatened duchy to his enemies in N. France, when he could have simply sent an embassy? Norman sources never present William as seeking anything from...

:laughing: Good man, I shall horse my messengers in readiness!

Pride in one's culture is one good thing (ie. Yorkshiremen and Normans, amongst others), but when we get hateful idiots and/or nationalists- even intelligent and literate ones who can spell- that twist history and denigrate every other culture as if they shouldn't exist, it becomes a boring and...

Thanks, Chris, I'll peruse the site and see...

Cheers Chris, looks like I stepped into a war zone? :wary2::laughing:

Yet from 1258 the Normans were officially not the rulers of their own domain?

It was, as the Normans themselves admitted, conducted "over hidden relics" and no witnesses for this 'oath' were ever named- was it a public oath- and in the open air(Bayeux tap)? English custom was that they were always sworn on a gospel book, (Normans say Harold swore manibus junctis-...

It would have to be Ghengis Khan's in terms of expanse/size, it was twice that of the Roman Empire (which would get my durability Empire vote) and four times that of Alexander the Great's.