The Anglo-Norman world was created by the union of Normandy and England in 1066, when William, the

duke of Normandy, conquered the kingdom of England.

In the year 1066,

7000 Norman infantry and knights sailed in warships across the English Channel.
Their target was England, home to more than a million people.
Theirs was a short voyage with massive consequences.
And around the same period of time,
other groups of Normans were setting forth all across Europe,
going on adventures that would reverberate throughout that continent’s history.

So who were these warriors and how did they leave their mark so far and wide?

This story begins over 200 years earlier,

when Vikings began to settle on the shores of northern France
as part of a great Scandinavian exodus across northern Europe.
The French locals called these invaders Normans,
named for the direction they came from.
Eventually, Charles, the king of the Franks,
negotiated peace with the Viking leader Rollo in 911,
granting him a stretch of land along France’s northern coast
that came to be known as Normandy.

The Normans proved adaptable to their newly settled life.

They married Frankish women,
adopted the French language,
and soon started converting from Norse paganism to Christianity.
But though they adapted,
they maintained the warrior tradition and the conquering spirit of their Viking forebears.

And Before long, ambitious Norman knights were looking for new challenges.
So, The Normans’ best-known achievement was their conquest of England In 1066, by William, who
lived up to his nickname "William the Conqueror"

William consolidated his gains with a huge castle-building campaign

and a reorganization of English society.

through a massive survey known as the Domesday Book,

which recorded the population and ownership
of every piece of land in England. Norman French became the language of the new royal court,
while commoners continued to speak Anglo-Saxon.

Over time, the two merged to give us the English we know today…

Now, My classmates are going to continue talking about the Normans conquest.

conclusion
So if the Normans were so successful, there is a question and it is why aren’t they still around? We
don’t truly know

But In fact, this was a key part of their success:

not just ruling the societies they conquered, but becoming part of them.

Although the Normans eventually disappeared as a distinct group, but

their contributions remained.
And today, from the castles and cathedrals that dot Europe’s landscape
to wherever the English language is spoken,
the Norman legacy lives on.

The Anglo-Normans (Norman: Anglo-Normaunds, Old English: Engel-Norðmandisca)
were the medieval ruling class in England, composed mainly of a combination of
ethnic Normans, French, Anglo-Saxons, Flemings and Bretons, following
the Norman conquest. A small number of Normans had earlier befriended
future Anglo-Saxon king of England, Edward the Confessor, during his exile in his
mother's homeland of Normandy in northern France. When he returned to
England some of them went with him, and so there were Normans already
settled in England prior to the conquest. Edward's successor, Harold Godwinson,
was defeated by Duke William the Conqueror of Normandy at the Battle of
Hastings, leading to William's accession to the English throne.

The victorious Normans formed a ruling class in Britain, distinct from (although
inter-marrying with) the native populations. Over time their language evolved
from the continental Old Norman to the distinct Anglo-Norman language. Anglo-
Normans quickly established control over all of England, as well as parts
of Wales (the Cambro-Normans). After 1130, parts of southern and eastern
Scotland came under Anglo-Norman rule (the Scoto-Normans), in return for their
support of David I's conquest.

The Norman conquest of Ireland in 1169 saw Anglo-Normans and Cambro-

Normans settle vast swaths of Ireland, becoming the Hiberno-Normans.
By the end of the 12th century, the Normans had further expanded into Wales, Scotland, and
Ireland.

though the divide between lords and peasants can still be felt
in synonym pairs such as cow and beef.

Soon after landing in England,

William and his knights met Harold’s army near the town of Hastings.
The climactic moment in the battle
is immortalized in the 70-meter-long Bayeux Tapestry,
where an arrow striking Harold in the eye seals the Norman victory.
William consolidated his gains with a huge castle-building campaign
and a reorganization of English society.