Pretty much. Actually, the History Channel's series "Vikings" is a precursor, loosely based on English and French history. William is supposedly descended from the Viking Rollo.
Aegon Targaryen's conquest is very very similar to William the conqueror in our history. There is an argument to be made that the Targaryens are partly french which gives the conflict between the 7 kingdoms and the Targaryens a whole new meaning.
@@reidparker1848 England was a French oversea duchy so colony is quite appropriate especially since he brought thousands of Frankish soldiers with him that stayed and founded families
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.
david marwood but they made the English speak French; just like the English made the Irish & Scots speak English.!!!! So the whole invasion would have been attributed to the Franks which are the ancestors of the French today.
The Norman's came from the far East, possibly India, because they worshipped Hindu God's as is recorded and were given a part of northern France to rule over because French were unable to repel the plunderings of mighty normans
Ya only the royal families had enough to keep their family alive. Remember the plagues and lifestyle of peasants made it near impossible to reproduce and keep your family strong so many blood lines died out during the medieval ages, and only the strong ones survived. It’s actually natural selection within recorded history, just not spoken of too often.
@@A_name_is_a_name natural selection?? Its kill or be killed. Take or be taken advantage of. Have or have not.. being born into an opportunistic life is not "natural selection"
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”
Almost all of the nobles spoke English by the middle of the 1100's mate...it was just the very upper class at court (French was the language spoken all over Europe in court) that took longer
He left his lands in a state of warfare and his son that should have been successor to England, he didn't even trust and gave him Normandy instead. Not to mention his body was plundered for all its value after his death. William I was a failure.
Henry V of England Heir of France I have to admit that "rule" can be used to play in semantics. What I meant is from 1066 to 1399 England was ruled by dynasties that came from France.
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.
Normandie remained French. Guillaume while vassal of the French king simply became king of england. Before the French invasion of england, Normandie was a duchy of France, not an independant kingdom.
@@henrypernoix1793 yes. I realize I didn't say it in my comment, but yes that's what I was referring to. Ruling them seperate. Normandy as a duchy of France and England as a kingdom seperate from France.
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.
Napoleon, Emperor of Europe The Normans weren't French. plus.google.com/112864547723925272788/posts/VaJKEJJ9ycs The Normans were Normans. They didn't see themselves as French.
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.
@TheBritishBulldog Nah just stating a fact . If we are going to praise him for his acheviements then we also have to remember that he was capable of being very ruthless and cruel. He was brutal for his time period and not just in Yorkshire .
@@joannechisholm4501 He killed around a hundred thosaund men women and children and salted the earth . Villages and crops were burned and animals will killed . Plenty starved to death , if they surivied the cutting down of them as they fled . It's called the Harrying of the North .
You're supposed to get sick and tired of US politics, one way to keep you from paying attention to what's been done. Either you follow one of the two parties, rather blindly. or you pay attention and get frustrated over how ridiculous it seems, especially on the surface. A lot of noises being created.
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.
Why would William make a pact with Hardrada if he believed that he was in line for succession? If anything, the idea that England belongs to William, and William alone, seems stronger as oppose to the notion that he and Hadrada agreed to split the kingdom.
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? 😂
@@joannechisholm4501 Yes, even though I may be related to some Norman or other, I really don't think it's something to be proud of. It would be like a German telling you that his grandfather was a concentration camp guard!
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.
@Seiko Loveless actually quite a lot of people can trace their lineage back to William himself. All Im saying is that my last name, Stoddard, is connected to some dude named Stoddart who was related to him. Its not a big deal, I mean you and I have a chance that were both related to Gangas Khan as they say 15% of the population is somehow related to him.
Nope... William, son of Rollo, a Dacian. His army, sons of Dacians and Angles (Saxons) from East Anglia. Don't blame me... That's literally what the text that the Normans left behind says.
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?
In fact Normans are descendant of vikings who were raiding coastal France, England and Scotland. I think it was Charles the Simple or Pepin the Just who, realizing he couldn't get rid of them, decided to give them the Duchy of Rouen to permanently establish themselves. Those Normans mingled and inter-bred with the local French and adopted their way of life. After generations they basically became French. Norman-French.
British aristocratic society are descendants of William or his Norman courtiers. It's the ordinary people who consider themselves to be Anglo Saxon who have their doubts.
Anglo Saxon Germans rule England now , naturally they frown upon a mighty superior race who conquered with really a very few men. England had a much greater manpower,. Yet the leonine ultra masculine scion of the Indo-European race , William the conqueror crushed those Anglo Saxon invaders. The Norman R1a1a paternal haplogroup is the cousin haplogroup of the native R1b of the Celtics of England. But the Anglo saxons are not the Indo-European peoples
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.
Me as well. My mother's maiden name is Tracy and we are related through Gieva deTracy then through SIr WIlliam de Tracy who gained fame killing a Bishop. Through what line are you descended?
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"
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.
Dedication, ambition, determination, greed, discipline, want, need, craving, thirst, hunger, hormones, horny, views, and vision could get you in those locations
Me as well. My mother's maiden name is Tracy and we are related through Gieva deTracy then through SIr WIlliam de Tracy who gained fame killing a Bishop. Through what line are you descended?
I am as well. He is listed in our family bible as our great and so forth grandfather. We didn't know this until after I was diagnosed with a rare birth defect.
Both of my parents’ lines descend from him. My dad’s side goes back to Henry II of England (through his illegitimate son William Longspée). While my mom’s goes back to Edward III of England (through his sons John and Thomas). Ironically enough, William’s rival, Harold Godwinson is an ancestor of Edward III through his mother.
Me as well. My mother's maiden name is Tracy and we are related through Gieva deTracy then through SIr WIlliam de Tracy who gained fame killing a Bishop. Through what line are you descended?
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Yes we know that Franks had germanic D-N-A but by the time of William the Conqueror there were not Franks anymore since they all mixed with the French half Celtic half roman population. Also, the Anglo Saxons at that time were mixed with Celts and not full germanic anymore
@@catholicracialist776 you don’t get it do you franks weren’t just an Germanic race of people who later became gallo-Roman they were a tribe it’s not about ethnicity it’s about identity. What I’m trying to say is you call Them french they called themselves Franks Frank and French didn’t mean exactly the same thing back ten It was starting to by time of the 1066 invasion of England tho But still the Normans would’ve seen themselves as uniquely different to the rest of The Franks they were Norse Franks hence the name Normans and anyway there were no Frenchman and there were no English they were Franks and Anglo-Saxons which today translates to us as me English and you French. PS and they did not and probably would not have identified with earlier Frank’s either pps and yes the invasion force was a mix including a lot of franks from the rest of France but they all identified slightly differently to the rest. PPPS The kingdom of England is actually technically older than the kingdom of France.
@@veronicalogotheti5416 he was descended from Scandinavians as many Normans were but he himself was French. His first language was a dialect of French and he grew up in Normandy, a region that was loyal to the French Kingdom. You're just salty that France's best King was in fact the King of England.
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
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man, england history is like game of thrones in real life
Pretty much. Actually, the History Channel's series "Vikings" is a precursor, loosely based on English and French history. William is supposedly descended from the Viking Rollo.
William is a Jew not a Viking
@@luxintra5335 No he wasn't .
Same can be said about any other european country , to be honest.
Aegon Targaryen's conquest is very very similar to William the conqueror in our history. There is an argument to be made that the Targaryens are partly french which gives the conflict between the 7 kingdoms and the Targaryens a whole new meaning.
its crazy to the think that it changed the course of language,religion and history itself
It basically made England the first independent French colony
Ψ Воинomme language yeah but the religion still stayed the same
@@ommsterlitz1805
Lol, not even close.
@@reidparker1848 England was a French oversea duchy so colony is quite appropriate especially since he brought thousands of Frankish soldiers with him that stayed and founded families
@@reidparker1848
english cope going hard with this one 🗿
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.
The Norman's weren't French, they were Norman. That's like calling the Scottish englishmen
david marwood but they made the English speak French; just like the English made the Irish & Scots speak English.!!!! So the whole invasion would have been attributed to the Franks which are the ancestors of the French today.
david marwood No, it's not lol.
david marwood No, it's not lol.
The Norman's came from the far East, possibly India, because they worshipped Hindu God's as is recorded and were given a part of northern France to rule over because French were unable to repel the plunderings of mighty normans
So you mean to tell me that all these people in the comment section are related to this dude? 🤔
Dude, this guy lived almost a thousand years ago, if you're a englishman is very likely that you're related to him too.
Ya only the royal families had enough to keep their family alive. Remember the plagues and lifestyle of peasants made it near impossible to reproduce and keep your family strong so many blood lines died out during the medieval ages, and only the strong ones survived. It’s actually natural selection within recorded history, just not spoken of too often.
@@A_name_is_a_name natural selection?? Its kill or be killed. Take or be taken advantage of. Have or have not.. being born into an opportunistic life is not "natural selection"
I'm not related to him. My family (Minot(t)Mynot(t) was compatriots and fought along side him.
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”
Norman invasion was french culture Norse dna I think
@@user-gu5pk6ty7v Nope. Norse (germanic) D-N-A was lost when they started mixing with the French.
@@catholicracialist776 that's not how DNA works DNA isn't just lost
Almost all of the nobles spoke English by the middle of the 1100's mate...it was just the very upper class at court (French was the language spoken all over Europe in court) that took longer
Not only Normans, William brought his father-in-laws army too from Flanders.
rise and fall? he never did actually fall from power
He left his lands in a state of warfare and his son that should have been successor to England, he didn't even trust and gave him Normandy instead. Not to mention his body was plundered for all its value after his death.
William I was a failure.
His legacy is only with him rising and rising
He literally did fall. From his horse.
And thus began 300 years of French rule over England.
Dos Wheels Яouges There was never 300 years of French rule over England. It's as retarded as saying USA won WW2.
Henry V of England Heir of France
I have to admit that "rule" can be used to play in semantics. What I meant is from 1066 to 1399 England was ruled by dynasties that came from France.
goff0103 the current royal family isn't
@William Devereux how is that conspiracy what is knight templar
@@doswheelsouges359 More like French-speaking Norweigans.
Im related to my mother!
Kirkland Buchanan ikr there are so many ‘I’m related to him!’
le gasp
What would be unique is if you're NOT related to him, lol
nooo, wayyyy
I am not.
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.
Normandie remained French. Guillaume while vassal of the French king simply became king of england.
Before the French invasion of england, Normandie was a duchy of France, not an independant kingdom.
^ vassal by an oath and not conquest. They just kept their oath of loyalty to inferior French kings for generations to come
@@henrypernoix1793 yes. I realize I didn't say it in my comment, but yes that's what I was referring to. Ruling them seperate. Normandy as a duchy of France and England as a kingdom seperate from France.
@@henrypernoix1793 The court of England didn't even speak English until the rule Henry V.
@@pij6277
"inferior french kings" high anglo copium detected
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.
He'd have never have conquered England if the Saxons hadn't have had to fight off a Danish invasion 4 days earlier.
exactly what I'm thinking, but he won nevertheless
They were French...
Napoleon, Emperor of Europe well no, they really weren't. They were Normans. France as we know it, wasn't even a thing back then.
It was a french duchy, william was vassal of the french king, (although he was weak and hated by his dukes, especially William).
Napoleon, Emperor of Europe The Normans weren't French.
plus.google.com/112864547723925272788/posts/VaJKEJJ9ycs
The Normans were Normans. They didn't see themselves as French.
To people whining about their ancestry - you share 92% of your DNA with a mouse.
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.
@TheBritishBulldog Nah just stating a fact . If we are going to praise him for his acheviements then we also have to remember that he was capable of being very ruthless and cruel.
He was brutal for his time period and not just in Yorkshire .
He sure did for that dam doomsday books of his he was a truly evil tyrant.
He genocided the people of England? He killed the English dukes and replaced them with his Norman Barrons.
@@joannechisholm4501 He killed around a hundred thosaund men women and children and salted the earth . Villages and crops were burned and animals will killed .
Plenty starved to death , if they surivied the cutting down of them as they fled .
It's called the Harrying of the North .
Today he would be put in the dock for mass genocide
produce something more about french history and culture and life style like this than US POLITICS that we get sickntired of
This slice of paradise This sacred throne of Kings it’s connected to French history as well. Y’all share my ancestor please.
You're supposed to get sick and tired of US politics, one way to keep you from paying attention to what's been done. Either you follow one of the two parties, rather blindly. or you pay attention and get frustrated over how ridiculous it seems, especially on the surface. A lot of noises being created.
The world needs to look for other countries to look up to. Like Australia and Norway, maybe?
really well done. I quite enjoyed it.
Please add English subtitle.
im a decendant of william my 29th great grand father was his uncle.
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.
Why would William make a pact with Hardrada if he believed that he was in line for succession? If anything, the idea that England belongs to William, and William alone, seems stronger as oppose to the notion that he and Hadrada agreed to split the kingdom.
@@hybridphoenix7766 because he wanted it for himself and tricked Hardrada? Deceit was very common back then?
@@randomnoob698 I don't think so
@@randomnoob698 maybe but also this sounds more like a crusader kings scenario lol
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!
Salut cousine
@@french8780 back at you cousin! Nice to meet you in the youtube comments. Heard our family is pretty big haha
@@Sara_Raney thanks Sarah
Yes The french family is pretty Big 😉
Bonjour de France
Us to grandmother's side
@@rhondanielson3753 hey hey family! I didnt even know there was comments here for a year!
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? 😂
I would say fate
Lol, I hope you love your job
Making and restoring armour sounds like a great job.
He was like really pissed when he found out Harold got the thrown
Did u know he went to Northern England went on the rampage and killed ever one called the Harrowing of the North?
@@joannechisholm4501 Yes, even though I may be related to some Norman or other, I really don't think it's something to be proud of. It would be like a German telling you that his grandfather was a concentration camp guard!
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.
@Seiko Loveless actually quite a lot of people can trace their lineage back to William himself. All Im saying is that my last name, Stoddard, is connected to some dude named Stoddart who was related to him. Its not a big deal, I mean you and I have a chance that were both related to Gangas Khan as they say 15% of the population is somehow related to him.
William, son of Rollo, a Dane. His army, sons of Danes as well.
Nope...
William, son of Rollo, a Dacian. His army, sons of Dacians and Angles (Saxons) from East Anglia. Don't blame me... That's literally what the text that the Normans left behind says.
Are you calling the Normans retarded? And how can you, a guy who lives in the present, know better than the Norman chroniclers who lived in the past?
@@HolgerDanske874 but they call themselves french,keep crying
@@HolgerDanske874 you are dumb
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?
In fact Normans are descendant of vikings who were raiding coastal France, England and Scotland. I think it was Charles the Simple or Pepin the Just who, realizing he couldn't get rid of them, decided to give them the Duchy of Rouen to permanently establish themselves. Those Normans mingled and inter-bred with the local French and adopted their way of life. After generations they basically became French. Norman-French.
British aristocratic society are descendants of William or his Norman courtiers. It's the ordinary people who consider themselves to be Anglo Saxon who have their doubts.
Shut up robot!
Anglo Saxon Germans rule England now , naturally they frown upon a mighty superior race who conquered with really a very few men. England had a much greater manpower,. Yet the leonine ultra masculine scion of the Indo-European race , William the conqueror crushed those Anglo Saxon invaders.
The Norman R1a1a paternal haplogroup is the cousin haplogroup of the native R1b of the Celtics of England.
But the Anglo saxons are not the Indo-European peoples
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.
Damon 79 kill them
Enslaved who and a hero normandy is question
french hero who conquered and colonized england*
William is Norman, not French
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.
I am related to William the Conquerer so I figured that I would do some research about him.
Me as well. My mother's maiden name is Tracy and we are related through Gieva deTracy then through SIr WIlliam de Tracy who gained fame killing a Bishop. Through what line are you descended?
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"
does "anything but ordinary" mean the opposite of what I thought it did?
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Crazy to think, if he had died in that first invasion in 1066, I wouldn't be here today.
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.
If The Normans were not French, but were French-speaking Vikings, then the Saxons weren't English, but were English-speaking Germans!
I'm a direct descendant of William the Conqueror and Rollo. The internet is freaking crazy!
Happy to welcome you in the French Familly, compatriote.
Joshua Traffanstedt I’m also direct descendant of William the Conqueror..
@@henrypernoix1793 he wasn’t French he was Norman
@@majesticman1852
Normans were French from Normandy.
@@henrypernoix1793 they weren’t French why do you think they are called normans instead of French
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
William the Conqueror is one of my relatives!
Yes he actually is. I have a family tree going down centuries. He is one of the people in it.
Zactura I just found this out as well. We're distant blood! :)
Zactura I am related to king Tutankhamen
Zactura Wow, me too, our great x17 grandfather must have either loved rape or was a real hit with the ladies, most likely door number one though.
I am related to one of the people tortured in the salem witch trials
Dedication, ambition, determination, greed, discipline, want, need, craving, thirst, hunger, hormones, horny, views, and vision could get you in those locations
Was William considered a usurper by the English people?
Hes the cousin of edward the confessor the English king
Up north we see him as a genocidal manaic
@TheBritishBulldog Norman's did not leave much genetic inprint behind.
There are things to admire about him others not so much .
Yes most from an Englishwoman
@רבקה All the DNA studies say there has been no input .
Consdring the Harrying was seen as brutal for its time period says it all
My great grandfather
Three English lions represent, Normandy, England and Aquataine.
My blood line goes back to him so this is a cool thing to watch for me 😊
Me as well. My mother's maiden name is Tracy and we are related through Gieva deTracy then through SIr WIlliam de Tracy who gained fame killing a Bishop. Through what line are you descended?
Mine too, I saw today a family tree that goes back to him
I am as well. He is listed in our family bible as our great and so forth grandfather. We didn't know this until after I was diagnosed with a rare birth defect.
Both of my parents’ lines descend from him. My dad’s side goes back to Henry II of England (through his illegitimate son William Longspée). While my mom’s goes back to Edward III of England (through his sons John and Thomas). Ironically enough, William’s rival, Harold Godwinson is an ancestor of Edward III through his mother.
Mine does too.
Awesome
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
hello I had statue , I think it was william the conqueror if you want I'll send some photos
Damn vikings made huge impact 8th - 1066 ad
Like this william
Viking
"I am a French Viking King of England. Your argument is invalid."
Hold on to your Allen's William
Willam the conqueror was Portuguese 🇵🇹
Not a word about the Huguenots desecrating William's tomb and only a leg bone survives. Long live the memory of king Harold.
is your last name legitly hitler???
Long live Harold Godwinson 2nd!!
Came here because he was mentioned in hoi4
I found out today that I am related to him
lemme smash yeah me to not long ago, hello fellow relative
Damn, I honestly may be related to you.
Me as well. My mother's maiden name is Tracy and we are related through Gieva deTracy then through SIr WIlliam de Tracy who gained fame killing a Bishop. Through what line are you descended?
I found out I'm related to one of his close accomplice's a knight, Anschetil de Grey, and founder of the noble House of Grey.
Well at least try to spell his name right as it was Guillaume never was William it's the historian that started calling him William
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!
To what degree
I am a descendant of William The Conqueror, ergo, I am greater than you! King Henry, I have the low ground! Surrender!
Dare I say my grandmother and us are off of William the Conqueror fact
So the host speaks English, and the interviewees understand English but speak French?
William The conquer was the reincarnation of Arjuna of mahabharat. In recent he taken birth as yognanda paramhans, the perfect yogi...
Dinesh Singh I’m a crumb of that yogi
can not hear !
William the conqueror is my 26th grandfather
@chanctonbury63 I'm positively sure
@chanctonbury63 an nah I'm not very old
@chanctonbury63 yeah
@chanctonbury63 damn I dunno all I know is that William the conqueror is my 26th grandfather.
Im related to this guy
okey nice setory
The Vikings shaped Europe
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.
2:45 my GOD England used to look like THAT
I'm a descendant of this dude.
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
Guillaume le Conquérant fait partie de l'histoire de France, je sais pas dans quelle établissement tu as enseigné?
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.
Well, England eventually became the most powerful of European nations so this event was sort of a "ripple effect" that set them on their path.
@@robwalsh9843not close
I feel like he glossed over alot of stuff.
Willam the conqueror was Italian 🇮🇹
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
trop guez
OBAHMA claims he was .Nah he's not a viking he's a enemy
I’m a descendant of William the Conqueror..
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.
Yes we know that Franks had germanic D-N-A but by the time of William the Conqueror there were not Franks anymore since they all mixed with the French half Celtic half roman population. Also, the Anglo Saxons at that time were mixed with Celts and not full germanic anymore
@@catholicracialist776 you don’t get it do you franks weren’t just an Germanic race of people who later became gallo-Roman they were a tribe it’s not about ethnicity it’s about identity. What I’m trying to say is you call Them french they called themselves Franks Frank and French didn’t mean exactly the same thing back ten It was starting to by time of the 1066 invasion of England tho
But still the Normans would’ve seen themselves as uniquely different to the rest of The Franks they were Norse Franks hence the name Normans and anyway there were no Frenchman and there were no English they were Franks and Anglo-Saxons which today translates to us as me English and you French. PS and they did not and probably would not have identified with earlier Frank’s either pps and yes the invasion force was a mix including a lot of franks from the rest of France but they all identified slightly differently to the rest. PPPS The kingdom of England is actually technically older than the kingdom of France.
@@chrishilton3626 It was about race and yes they later became Gallo roman because they mixed with the natives of the area of what is now france
@@chrishilton3626 which is sad ofcourse
@@chrishilton3626 they mixed
I'm a descendant
Nobody cares
Nor man
Not french
He was French and he's the greatest Frenchman of all time.
@@xavier01110 he was not french
Most probably hun
Couldnt write or read
Killed the french merovigians
@@veronicalogotheti5416 he was descended from Scandinavians as many Normans were but he himself was French. His first language was a dialect of French and he grew up in Normandy, a region that was loyal to the French Kingdom. You're just salty that France's best King was in fact the King of England.
@@xavier01110 so he was a rollo relative
Nothing to do with french or germanic
if l anderstand correctly
Great britain belongs to France 😂
Canada belongs to France 😂
The english Will have to pay rent 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
😂
Is anybody have this man as one of their ancestors besides me
Waiting for BLM to topple this
Is William the Conqueror the first King of England? Why is he so important?
Because of him Old English died out and modern English is basically half French
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
#WilliamtheConqueror
No anglo saxons all vikings
No French Guillaume le Conquérant born Falaise from France 💯% French UK belongs to France 😂😂🇨🇵
Some Alt right members have found their way back to this channel again..smdh
Is that some kind of indie book store?
Rata jogi
Please guys watch Wikipedia before written a commentary it will avoid you to write some bullshits like either William was a Viking or Scandinavian
lol
2nd6 OUAIIII
He was NOT a norman. His D-N-A was not germanic
Aegon Targaryen 🐲🐲🐲
I said the same thing man!
Pretty much the inspiration for it
His mother was Jewish so this doesn't make him Norman or white. He was the first Jewish king of England.
No. His mother was Matilda of Flanders.
His mother name was called Herleva
@@Digiphex His wife was Matilda of Flanders =)
lol