Instablaster.

Just found out that Roger de Hauteville is my direct ancestor! I can trace their lineage to 670ad in Norway.

👍William the who ? Roger has always been the best norman hes a sleeper. I didnt know judith was such a awesome tho. Shes a real role model to women not some suffragette slag.

@@asbelhomeowner6615 Santa Clause

@@asbelhomeowner6615 Um, he probably has close to a billion living descendants. 🤣🤣

oh really because normans were danes lol quit lying@@asbelhomeowner6615

Same! And without commie indoctrination like at universities!

Why is your hair color related to this ?

@@javier6926 Because red hair and blue eyes in Sicily are thought to be from the Normans and Lombards.

Mad Martigan but that tradition is absolutely lacking a scientific basis. It’s impossible to know where that trait comes from , because the assumption that blondes or redheads didn’t exist in Sicily before the 11th century is ridiculous.

​@@javier6926 Redheads are only 0.57% of the Italian population at large. In Sicily, redheads are called "Normanne". That's enough to pique my interest!

vikedude 123 well Sicily was inhabited/populated prior to the Normans by Italic tribes who had a prominent amount of Indo-European Steppe ancestry relative to some of their neighbors, and then after them the Italic Latins/Romans, all of whom had light hair and eyes in small/varying degrees. The Greek colonists probably did too, but in even smaller proportions, this is all related to the amount of WHG and EHG/Steppe ancestry each succeeding group had.

Well, My birthday is coming up...

Nice item, are you heppy with it?

Sure wish I had that!

Do you stroke it in your dark watery cave, whispering precious again and again?

Baltic ?

I want to make that!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great ancestry! And thanks!

You are welcome!

thanks!

Welcome aboard!

It's because they came from Scandinavia - mainly Denmark 😁😁

Thanks from my holy country Normandy

That is extremely sad

That’s awful

dude wot..and how did italy let this happen?

Thank you very much!

Thanks!

Much appreciated!

I appreciate that

Glad you enjoyed it

Glad it was helpful!

The 'pigeon tactic' seems to have been used everywhere...the tarantulas though, only the Normans, lol.

The Normans did excellent things in southern Italy, especially Sicily.

At that time, they hadn't been Vikings for a moment. Or at least, they were Franco-Norses.

@@tibsky1396 Same people though, they also took over Russia, led the crusades, took over Britain and Ireland - basically changed world history

@@tibsky1396 just norses thanks

@@christophedel2642 Tu dis des conneries.

christian vikings yea, just like richard

Glad you like them!

Interesting question. War horses at this time were not the massive creatures they would be later. They were strong, but swift and agile as well. Most likely, they would've been fairly similar horses on both sides. The best warhorses were Arabs bred in Spain, and the Normans loved these horses. William the Conqueror used them, and the Normans in Italy and Sicily used them as well.

Yes indeed... forever

..dude what? teutonic knight crusade on sicily? when

what do you think?? this was 11th cent. all lands were the leader's. the previous landowners pledge allegiance and paid the taxes. sometimes they paid with daughters!!! RCH is a glamourized historical novella. under the arabs you had land and were not subject to a hierarchical religious oligarchy that sold alms!!!

Μυλωνόγιαννης Λι you’re retarded to think they were any better under arab rule. The spainiards for hundreds of years kept trying to to take back spain because arab rule wasn’t as fruitful as you make it out to be. If it wasn’t for that traitor it would have been under Byzantine rule. But the Byzantines cared more about the snake politics than reconquering their land. But I think it would have been the ideal situation if the Byzantines were the ones who reconquered scilly

@@meep3035 if this time was under alexios komnenos the first 1 Sicily would be under Byzantine hands 😒😒 Constantine the 9 was trash

Vae Victis. No one wants to hear your sob story, every human and whomever he descends from has one.

Lady Lacrimal which campaign was it? I don’t remember anything for the Norman conquest of Sicily.

@@historicalminds6812 I'm sorry but I was hoping to find out if there was a campaign from other listeners lol.

I had to edit to say "I wish we could have played.."

Lady Lacrimal ah no worries. If anything create a steam account and get the newer versions and expansions for the game. You can create these scenarios in the editor if you want or even pitch it on the reddit community forums! There are a lot of creators that are always wanting to do more stuff; that’s what’s kept the game alive for so long.

@@historicalminds6812 Thanks, I wish this was a campaign when I played AOE back in the day.

Lots

They were around and mixed in with local populations. The Normans were usually smaller in numbers but fierce and battle tested.

And in North of France given to them by the Pope.. that's why was called Normandy From there invaded Britain

@@enricomanno8434 not by the pope but king of france

@@christophedel2642 Yes indeed.. and also by the Pope.. that's why the Normans build beautiful cattidrals and churches.

Looks to me like some of the total wars, certainly medieval 2. Possibly Attila with a mod?

Medieval 2

Russo it means red.. nothing to do with the Russians

@@enricomanno8434 Long before the word Russo ever meant a Russian it was the name for the RUS, The Varagian Vikings who were body guards to the Byzantine Greeks. All Vikings or Norsemen were called Rus in the Greek Language of Byzantine Sicily.

@@ricciluigi2592 You are correct. After 1066 some Anglo-Saxons migrated to Constantinople to join the Emperors Varangian Guards!

The name Roussos and Rousso are are common in Greece

@@mickeymouse1697 Yes and to this day in Greece it means a Norseman. The Byzantine Greek word for the Vikings who were bodyguards to the Byzantine Emperors. They gave the name of their Tribe to Russia. All of Southern Italy was always Greek...Basically still is! HAHA

Really compared to your domari indian histories yours seem well represented.

No relation what so ever

@@Francesco1044 in Normandia si erano insediati 3 secoli prima.,caprone ignorante, si erano mescolati con chi vi risiedeva e ne avevano condiviso la lingua Langue d'oil. PRIMA dll'impresa in Sicilia dalla normadia Guiilemm ( Guglielmo il conquistatore, William I the conqueror ) sbarcò in Inghilterra e nella battaglia di Hastings sconfisse l'ultimo re sassone di quel paese Harold. Ebbe così inizio la monarchia dei Plantagenetes ( Plantageneti ) . La lora lingua era la Langue d'oil, da cui deriva il francese moderno. Lingua che fu parlata alla corte inglese fino al regno di Enrco IV 1404. Ma veniamo ai Normanni di Sicilia. Il loro luogo di origine era Hauteville Guichard vicino a Caen. Altavilla in italiano. Da lì un gruppo di una cinquantina di armati partì per unirsi alla crociata in palestina. I loro capi erano due fratelli Robert, detto le Guiscard ( guiscardo , l'astuto ), e Roger. Durante il viaggio verso Brindisi per imbarcarsi sulle navi dirette in terra santa, fecero tappa ad Amalfi, sotto assedio dei saraceni. I normanni si unirono agli amalfitani e sconfissero i saraceni. A quei tempi l'Italia meridionale nominalmente era sotto il dominio bizantino, di fatto però era in preda all'anarchia ed esposta alle incursioni saracene. Robert e Roger si unirono alle forze cristiane, che il paoa, Leone ....( non mi ricordo il numero ) aveva organizzato per respingere gli islamici dal paese. I normanni dimostrarono il loro valore, e il papa li incaricò di liberare la Sicilia dagli arabi. In cambio sarebbero diventati Re dell'isola. Nel frattempo Roberto il guiscardo era morto, fu così Ruggero a compiere l'impresa. Vi riuscì e divenne Ruggero I re di Sicilia, dando inizio alla dinastia degli Altavilla, vi furono altri 3 Ruggeri. L'ultimo il IV non ebbe figli maschi, na una femmina Costanza d'Altavilla. Costei si sposò con Corrado ( Konrad ) IV Hohenstauffen Gebeleingen. Figlio di federico I Barbarossa, imperatore del Sacro romano Impero. Dal loro matrimonio,,a Iesi,,durante il viaggio di ritorno dalla Svevia ( germania ) nacque Friedrich ( Federico ). Divenuto l'imperatore, Federico II del sacro romano impero, e re di Sicila tramite la madre. Se ti interessa potrei raccontarti il seguito, della lite fra Federico II e il Papa, del periodo Angioino e di quello Aragonese. Ma ritorniamo al punto. I Normanni di Siicilia venivano dal nord della Francua la loro lingua era la Langue d'oli, la stessa dei plantageneti. Durante il regno degli Altavilla in Sicila gli arabi che ne erano stati cacciati furono sostituiti da popolazioni della penisola, soprattutto dalla liguria, e da francesi. I cognomi Genovese, Savona, Spezia sono cognomi comuni in Sicilia ma non in Liguria, come Baudo, Carella e Riina, di chiara origine francese sono ora cognomi siciliani. Con questi coloni arrivarono in Sicilia anvhe i trovatiri ( troubiers ) occitani che furono fonte di ispirazione per poeti e scrittori italiani, fra i quali Dante e Giacomo da Lentini, l'inventore del sonetto, ispirato dalle Chansons dei Troubiers ( trovatori ). Come avrebbe detto Robert le guiscard. Adieu mom ami.

Not really the normans have Scandinavian roots and it is for this reason they are not big loosers like frenchies

Cope harder lol This was only 100 years after rollo converted, genes dont go away in 100 years 😂 If normans were french whyd philip 2 of france feel need to bakstab richard 😂 They were more of danes than french during this time, just like william who was son of half dane king and full dane norman woman herlava (norse name)

most importantly they were catholic lol

they were northern european thats for sure lol

This documentary is specifically about the conquest of Sicily.

Here is one I did about 1066 and England: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mpqVddOctZjNnIk.html