what are normans?

Answer 1

"The Normans (adapted from the name "Northmen" or "Norsemen") were a people who colonized Normandy, conquered England, and played a major political, military and cultural role in the northern and Mediterranean parts of medieval Europe for centuries. Their most famous achievement was the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
Originally they derived from the indigenous population of Neustria and Vikings originating in Scandinavia. They began to occupy the northern area of France now known as Normandy in the latter half of the 9th century. In 911, Charles the Simple, king of France, granted the invaders the small lower Seine area, which expanded over time to become the Duchy of Normandy. The invaders were under the leadership of Hrolf, who later became known under his latinized name Rollo who swore allegiance to Charles the Simple.
The Norman people adopted Christianity and the Gallo-Romance language and created a new cultural identity separate from that of their Scandinavian forebears and French neighbours. Norman culture, like that of many other migrant communities, was particularly enterprising and adaptable. For a time, it led them to occupy widely dispersed territories throughout Europe."
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Answer 2

Currently, Normans are people who live in Normandy, France.

Historically, Normans were a mixture of native French and Vikings. Norman means Northman. The Norman heyday was the 10th through the 12th century.

They were the elite warriors of their day. The Dukes of Normandy were expert battle tacticians innovating a number of military strategies. They used cavarly to good effect though at the Battle of Hastings many were still holding their spears over-handed.

In the late 9th century the viking chief Rollo began pillaging and later settling the area that would become Normandy. In 911 he was named duke of Normandy. Overtime the Norsemen adopted the French language and many French customs.

Though technically a subject of the French king, they more often than not warred against him and were basically autonomous.

The most famous Norman was William the Conqueror (formerly the Bastard). He conquerored the English at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became King of England (though he spent most of his time back in Normandy).

Many Normans from Normandy and Sicily joined in the First Crusade (1095-1099) including William's son, Duke Robert.

The independent Duchy of Normandy was lost to the Norman king of England when Robert's brother, Henry I, defeated him in battle and threw him in prison. From then till King John, Normandy and England were united as one realm.

Once Normandy came firmly under the control of the French monachry, it kind of lost it's individual character and Normans like the ones at the Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Jerusalem faded from history.

Answer 3

French invaders that conquered the Brits at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.