The most the Normans (they spoke French, but they weren't French. Norman is short for Northman) really did was sort of take over as a new ruling class. "England" as a state with its laws remained intact and in time the Normans were assimilated because England Prevails, my guy.
The most the Normans (they spoke French, but they weren't French. Norman is short for Northman) really did was sort of take over as a new ruling class. "England" as a state with its laws remained intact and in time the Normans were assimilated because England Prevails, my guy.
Normans were French. Many were even ethnically or culturally actually-British (from Brittany) like the Welsh, but they were French.