Timeline for Was England considered a "colony" of France?
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| Nov 25, 2015 at 16:06 | comment | added | 0A0 | Good point. It's easy to forget that, despite being a Norman, William was also Edward's first cousin once removed, giving him an arguably better claim to the throne than Harold Godwinson had (at least if we're going by blood ties.) | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 14:49 | comment | added | MCW♦ | And he claimed that he was not conquering England, but merely carrying out the wishes of Edward the Confessor. | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 14:36 | comment | added | Tom Au | OK, I unbolded "Frenchman" and put it in scare quotes instead. | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 14:36 | history | edited | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 25, 2015 at 13:19 | comment | added | GeoffAtkins | Yes, the Normans were a fairly recent arrival in France. | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 8:45 | comment | added | RedSonja | I think if you had asked him he would have identified as Norman, not as French. | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 17:02 | history | answered | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |