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To: Little Bill

Sounds like the typical corruption French names undergo among the anglo saxons and the Celts.

wikipedia has this:

“The first Norman knight to land in Ireland was Richard fitz Godbert de Roche in 1167,”

I wasn’t aware that the Norman conquest included Ireland. Probably Scotland as well.


82 posted on 09/13/2014 11:24:03 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Pelham

Yes

Henry II

it proved problematic


83 posted on 09/13/2014 11:41:03 PM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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