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17. dipsydoodle

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They do settled in England - at least in a fashion, but I guess most of them liked their estates in France/Normandie better than they liked their estates in England.. At least for the first couple of centuries when the castles was not more than wooden fortresses, the older, more comfortable castles in Normandie and France was a better place to live than England... But as time passed - and new ways of using the english to the betterment of the Norman overlord - it could be used to also build some new castles in stones - some of them exist to this days - others are mer memories on a hilltop - or ruins.. But still impressive ruins if you ask me!

The Normans, more or less made England into one country - even though the different kings and kingdoms had make some headway even before William the conquer (or as he also was known, William the bastard, as he was was born out of wedlock, something that was very important that days ) decided to conquer England - after been promised the throne after Edward the confessor.. King Harold - or Kong Harald hårråde as he is known in Norway, was in the way - but when William made a clever fint it all ended with King Harald killed - and most of the old nobel houses in England in shambles.. By 1080, most of the noble houses was either crushed into servitude, and had lost all of their land - or they was killed by the normans outright... And as the story goes - the rest is history...

But it is some interesting, to se that William the bastard - regardless of his lack of trust in the english - used most of the old governance to his own kingdom - and was able to organize his new kingdom into a decent modern one, using in part some of the ideas that had been floating around in the different parts of old England... But he also used the new, modern ideas coming from the continent - and was not shy of crushing rebellions in blood..

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