Today in history William, Duke of Normandy defeats Harold Godwinson at Hastings.
Accompanied by Rogerus Magnus - my ancestor...
Accompanied by Rogerus Magnus - my ancestor...
"If the Normans had not defeated Godwinson..."
Every History prof I ever had pondered the question "what if". Although I didn't pay a whole lot of attention back then, I finally surmised we all might be calling it the garasje instead of the garage. Not much difference, granted. But a Norman loss would probably have meant a lot larger Northern European influence in Great Britain than the French (By the 1700's, in England, ALL business and commerce was done in French. The two crowns wound up interbreeding so much it eventually gave everybody in England bad teeth...).
We might all be talking some Germanic tongue now. Great Britain would have probably been swallowed up by some large North Atlantic Nation and the "discovery" of what we call North America would have happened 200 years earlier. France would probably have eventually lost a war with Spain and years later neither WWI or WWII would have occurred.....Maybe...or maybe WWI and II would have been fought in the 1800s...
But what if Adam hadn't liked apples?....hmmm....
paden cash, post: 340500, member: 20 wrote: We might all be talking some Germanic tongue now...
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paden cash, post: 340500, member: 20 wrote: "If the Normans had not defeated Godwinson..."
Every History prof I ever had pondered the question "what if". Although I didn't pay a whole lot of attention back then, I finally surmised we all might be calling it the garasje instead of the garage. Not much difference, granted. But a Norman loss would probably have meant a lot larger Northern European influence in Great Britain than the French (By the 1700's, in England, ALL business and commerce was done in French. The two crowns wound up interbreeding so much it eventually gave everybody in England bad teeth...).
We might all be talking some Germanic tongue now. Great Britain would have probably been swallowed up by some large North Atlantic Nation and the "discovery" of what we call North America would have happened 200 years earlier. France would probably have eventually lost a war with Spain and years later neither WWI or WWII would have occurred.....Maybe...or maybe WWI and II would have been fought in the 1800s...
But what if Adam hadn't liked apples?....hmmm....
Problem wasn't the apple in the tree, it was the pear on the ground...
Jim in AZ, post: 340497, member: 249 wrote: Accompanied by Rogerus Magnus - my ancestor...
Also accompanied by Chauncey de Chauncey one of my ancestors, but then I had ancestors on both sides of that fight.
William was great-great-great-grandson of Rollo, otherwise known as Rolf the Ganger (walker), so named because he was too tall to ride a horse. He made himself independent of the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair, sailed and raided for a while until he decided to settle down, He then extorted from Charles the Simple the Dukedom of Normandy in a place called France.
Ah - for the good old days!
