Battle of Lincoln

Reminder that in 1217 France under King Louis VIII tried to invade England but the invasion force was successfully routed by a 70 year old William Marshal at the battle of Lincoln.
70 years old
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That image is the 1141 battle
This is the 1217 battle

Wouldn't have made any difference anyway
Both the French king, the "English" king and Williame Le Mareschal were Frenchmen, so...

Thank God, all these 100% English knights with incredibly English names such as "Le Marschal", "Longespée", "De Blondeville" or "Des Roches" were there to stop the filthy french!

Reminder that two welshmen (ian mortimer and henry tudor) invaded england from france twice and succeded in btfoing the rightful king at the time. Reminder that a dutchman invaded england in 1688 and took the throne. Reminder that a franco norseman took the throne in 1066

It would mean the Kingdom of England would be part of the Kingdom of France and the English just could not have that.
In fact I imagine they were quite miffed after the Norman invasion although slowly but surely they became accustomed to this new French ruling class as they became distinct from their continental brethren
They adopted the language, lived on the land and raised their sins and daughters in a new hybrid Anglo-Norman society.
Alongside this the English took to some French customs and borrowed the language.
Within 100 years the face of England had changed as it grew ties closer to the continent and by now the norman ruling class had distinguished itself from the nobles in France.
As the nobles (although not the royalty) became more English in nature, dissent with the King of France grew as he viewed it as a rebellion from noble bloodlines that once swore vassalage to him.
The English, now connected to the nobles, would not see a foreign invasion and so would fight by their lords to prevent this.
It wasn't nationalism per say, rather honour and loyalty to their lords.

Also a Frenchman from Anjou took over England in 1154
And before that, some Dane called Cnut did as well

Furthermore I never claimed they were pure English, but they fought for the English cause and that is noble enough.
Louis that day would not see himself crowned king of England as Henry III retained the crown with William acting as regent.
This is not a matter of ethnic purity, but loyalty to a kingdom and it's people

>Frenchmen

Marshal was 100% Italian. Why eksecwould he give his son an Italian name?

>'We shall be a lily-livered lot if we do not now take revenge on those who have come from France to take for themselves the lands of our men, thinking to inherit the same.'
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Now Now, no need to go bringing facts and sources into this.

That was beautiful

These Norman knights were indeed loyal to their kingdom
The kingdom they had created in 1066 when they raped actual English nobles and replaced them with themselves

>mfw you scroll down and stumble upon "This section offers the text in the original medieval French. "

Marshal was so English he wrote in French....

As I understand it, French was the language of nobility in Europe. For example, many of the great medieval literary cycles were written in French. Even Thomas Malory's 'The death of king Arthur' was printed with the french title 'Le Morte D'Arthur'

>French was the language of nobility in Europe

Only in England and France
It later spread to all the royal courts of Europe under Louis XIV (17th century), but during the Middle Ages, only France, England, Norman Sicily and the Crusader States spoke French

Please don't make it look like the Normans were cruel and merciless conquerors. They were just, yet fair although they could be ruthless in the face of rebellion as seen with the harrying of the north.
It is true that the Anglo-Saxon nobles were overthrown as the norman lords agreed to invasion on terms that they would be granted land.
They were, however, not distant from the population for long as within 50 years of the invasion, the nobles had taken to English as their primary spoken language with some learning French as a second language, similar to how a monk would learn latin

>They were, however, not distant from the population for long as within 50 years of the invasion, the nobles had taken to English as their primary spoken language with some learning French as a second language, similar to how a monk would learn latin

Absolutly wrong
French remained the native and main language among Norman (and Angevin) nobles in England until the 1390s/1400s
Some of them did learn English as well, some didn't, but all of them spoke French as primary language

>he thinks Marshal wrote the book that was written after his own death

>mfw everyone was called William

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