The Battle of Hastings occurred 950 years ago on October 14, 1066

VA Viper ^ | 10/14/2016 | HarpyGoddess

[harpygoddess]

More - maps, links, video history and re-enactments, an animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry, and the story of William's exploding corpse.

[gattaca]

I was just reading about that...

https://www.thetrumpet.com/article/14264.18.0.0/world/war/the-950th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-hastings

[ExGeeEye]

This is why we eat “beef”, not “cow”, and polite people say “manure” when they meant “sh

[VanDeKoik]

Almost 1000 years of continuous British(English) monarchy!
And to think, in 50 years there will likely be another King William too.

Assuming it is sultan Abdul III instead.

[pepsionice]

It wasn’t till last year that I came to realize that my family heritage comes from this period, and some relatives were part of the Norman invasion. The Battle of Hastings has an impact with me.

[Oberon]

In which some of my ancestors fought against some of my other ancestors. Happened again during the Hundred Years' War, the War of the Roses, and the English Civil War.

Durned in-laws can't get along...

[PUGACHEV]

George Orwell wrote an ever-timely essay on how Latin words, which came to us from the Norman conquest, "[fall] upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details". It's worth a read.

Politics and the English Language

[11th_VA]

Can’t we all just get along? (/sarcasm)

[Verginius Rufus]

Harold Godwinson, the last legitimate monarch of England.

All the reigning kings and queens of England since then have been descendants of William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy.

[Verginius Rufus]

Harold Godwinson, the last legitimate monarch of England.

All the reigning kings and queens of England since then have been descendants of William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy.

[Joe 6-pack]

We are also about a week and a half from the 601st Anniversary of Agincourt :)

[odawg]

The Battle of Hastings was the last successful invasion of England, until the current Muslim invasion engineered by England’s elected representatives.

[harpygoddess]

That is excellent, and I’ve never seen it before. Thank you!

[TruBluKentuckian]

My family can trace directly back to William himself. I suspect many can if they just do the work.

[harpygoddess]

Agincourt, the charge of the Light Brigade and Leyte Gulf, actually - all took place on the same day (October 25)

http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2010/10/today-in-history-agincourt-charge-of.html

[Claud]

The Normans conquer the Anglo-Saxons, who previously conquered the Britons, who very likely conquered the Picts.

Reparations all around!

[Wilum]

My family also traces back to William.

[Oberon]

When William's nobles settled in the various fiefdoms they held around England, the next thing they proceeded to do was to marry into all the oldest noble families in that area. So by the second generation, even if you resented answering to the old earl, at least the new earl was related to the "rightful lord" of that region. It made political life easier for the Norman ruling class going forward.

As a result, though, if you're descended from any of William's nobles, you're also descended from the old aristocracy of Cornwall or Devon or Yorkshire or Kent. That's just the way it was.

[Red Badger]

Excellent essay!

My college English professor would be aghast!

He ENCOURAGED the use of pretentious words in writing, calling them “Learn-ed Words”, not ‘learned’ but ‘learn-ed’, two syllables.

He ENCOURAGED the use of foreign phrases and idioms in writing to ‘spruce it up’ has he said.

This was in 1973..................

[Mrs. Don-o]

I was just gonna say that! You rascal, you copied me beforehand!!