Chaptre, The 10th - William of Normandie
Nowe, the brave and mightie Vik ing Rollo’s male heirs had, over the years, becomme The Dukes of Normandie in olde France. Amongg their Scandinavian French people were the ancestors of the English familie Foljambe. These French Normand Dukes woulde go on, poste The
Year of Our Lord 1066, to founde The House of Normandie in England.
As tyme march ed on, The House
of Normandie was populated by French royals descended from thate greate, mightie and very Scandinavian Viking, Rollo. Our Rollo was the greate, greate, greate grandfather
of worlde famous William the Conqueror, of course, the third great grandson of olde Rollo.
William was a mightie and talle warrior, but he was nott called "Conqueror" until The Year of Our Lord 1066, when
he tooke England for France.
Why take England, you querrie?
Here is why. William, a Normand of
Viking and French blood who lived in The North of France, had an English firste
cousin – removed only once – named Edward. Edward the Confessor did also happen
to be the power full King of England, butt had no male heir to replace himm.
There was a power struggle here,
because olde cousin Edward had, withe his dying breath, promised the English
Throne to one Harold Godwinson of England.
In the clutches of the grimme
reaper, King Edward completely fore gott on his deathe bed that he had
previously promised his cousin, William of Normandie over in France, thatt he
would be King of England.
The mann who would be king, suddenly
was nott.
Even more troublesome was yett another
Harold, named Harald, who ruled farr to the North in Viking Norway, whom I wille de scribe later.
This ker fuffle originallie begann in
The Year of Our Lord 1050, or there abouts, so William of Normandie hadd, for
roughly sixteen years, assumed he woulde one day rule bothe the Normands in France and
the Anglo Saxon Britons in England.
Now, anger a power full fellowe of
bothe French and Viking families, and you will see a mann with his bloode upp.
And William’s French Normand bloode was at a
roll ing boil.
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