“yet no man in his senses can say that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honourable one. A French bastard landing with an armed banditti, and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original. It certainly hath no divinity in it.”
Thomas Paine-
He nailed it. Like most French bastards, he was more like a half-French bastard. ;^) Like an awful lot of people, thanks to the passage of nine centuries and the tyranny of math, I count William the Bastard (a common nick for him back then) among my ancestors. :^) Not my fault of course.