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 Apart from the [[Danes]], and once in a while the Pope, no one really likes the Normans, but it doesn't really matter.  When the Dane Rollo and his followers settled in Northern France two-hundred years ago, they took to knighthood and the feudal system of organization like a pig takes to garbage.   The Ducal house at times defeated the French king and subjugated England.  Norman adventurers carved out a kingdom in Sicily and Italy, fought the [[Byzantines]] to a standstill, established principalities in the Holy Land and lordships in [[irish|Ireland]].   Apart from the [[Danes]], and once in a while the Pope, no one really likes the Normans, but it doesn't really matter.  When the Dane Rollo and his followers settled in Northern France two-hundred years ago, they took to knighthood and the feudal system of organization like a pig takes to garbage.   The Ducal house at times defeated the French king and subjugated England.  Norman adventurers carved out a kingdom in Sicily and Italy, fought the [[Byzantines]] to a standstill, established principalities in the Holy Land and lordships in [[irish|Ireland]].  
  
-Strangely enough, the Normans get along better with their [[moors|Moorish]] subjects in Sicily than with their Italian or Byzantine neighbors. +Strangely enough, the Normans get along better with their [[Moorish]] subjects in Sicily than with their Italian or Byzantine neighbors. 
  
  
  
normans.txt · Last modified: 2020/03/22 18:28 by andrew