Crossword clues for normans
normans
- Opera covering polar opposites? Wisdom was famously one of them
- William the Conqueror's lot?
- Bog’s not half ugly stench, a source of odorous seeds
- Two points about unusual Roman invaders of Britain
- William's followers
- They won the battle of Hastings
- Old Viking descendants of northern France
- Mailer and Rockwell
- Invaders of 1066
- England invaders
Wiktionary
n. (plural of norman English)
Wikipedia
The Normans ( Norman: Nourmands; ; ) were the people who in the 10th and 11th centuries gave their name to Normandy, a region in France. They were descended from Norse ("Norman" comes from " Norseman") raiders and pirates from Denmark, Iceland and Norway who, under their leader Rollo, agreed to swear fealty to King Charles III of West Francia. Through generations of assimilation and mixing with the native Frankish and Roman-Gaulish populations, their descendants would gradually adopt the Carolingian-based cultures of West Francia, ultimately resulting in their own assimilation into the Romance society. The distinct cultural and ethnic identity of the Normans emerged initially in the first half of the 10th century, and it continued to evolve over the succeeding centuries.
The Norman dynasty had a major political, cultural and military impact on medieval Europe and even the Near East. The Normans were famed for their martial spirit and eventually for their Christian piety, becoming exponents of the Catholic orthodoxy into which they assimilated. They adopted the Gallo-Romance language of the Frankish land they settled, their dialect becoming known as Norman, Normaund or Norman French, an important literary language. The Duchy of Normandy, which they formed by treaty with the French crown, was a great fief of medieval France, and under Richard I of Normandy was forged into a cohesive and formidable principality in feudal tenure. The Normans are noted both for their culture, such as their unique Romanesque architecture and musical traditions, and for their significant military accomplishments and innovations. Norman adventurers founded the Kingdom of Sicily under Roger II after conquering southern Italy from the Saracens and Byzantines. An expedition on behalf of their duke, William the Conqueror, led to the Norman conquest of England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Norman cultural and military influence spread from these new European centres to the Crusader states of the Near East, where their prince Bohemond I founded the Principality of Antioch in the Levant, to Scotland and Wales in Great Britain, to Ireland, and to the coasts of north Africa and the Canary Islands.
The legacy of the Normans persists today through the regional languages and dialects of France, England, and Sicily, as well as the various cultural, judicial and political arrangements they introduced in their conquered territories.
Usage examples of "normans".
She might well harbor notions of Normans and their vindictive treatment of unvirtuous or disobedient brides, notions that were neither wholly inaccurate nor unjustified.
But she dared not keep her light linen chemise, for the Normans would know a common girl would not possess such a garment.
For this part of the Isles, blondes prevailed, a legacy of both the Saxons and the Danes, unlike the slightly darker Normans whose blood had mixed with Franks and Bretons.
He knew well enough the reputation of Normans among these northern folk.
It seemed to be the way of these Normans to behave so irreverently toward their lord, and it seemed to be his way to accept it of them.
The Normans drank from their cups with bemused smiles curling on their lips.
In the end, he could only do as Normans, as all men, always did, and slay the one who betrayed them.
Then the Normans had come, taken over her home and forced her into marriage.
Gerard had earned respect among the Normans who had already ridden with him.
One large Saxon burst forth from the melee, sliced alongside the Normans instead of fighting head on, and surged toward the ring of Norman knights surrounding her.
The Normans that swarmed about her bristled like a hedgehog with their great lances.
The three wounded Normans still rode their horses, and managed well enough.
The word she had not deciphered became a shout as the Normans took it up.
In a very real way, the Normans had caused the eternal damnation of her soul, because of the suicide.
They spend their time causing as much trouble for the Normans as possible.