To: allmendream
From Normandy they took England, Sicily, Southern Italy, the Crusader Kingdom of Antioch, and twice came within one battle of taking the largest empire of the day, the Byzantines.All this on a diet of lutefisk! But they did hang out around Normandie for a while, enjoying French cuisine, washed down with Calvados, before setting out for England, Italy and points East.
10 posted on
01/31/2011 9:21:15 PM PST by
Kenny Bunk
(America might survive Obama. It cannot survive those who vote for him)
To: Kenny Bunk
Indeed. Most of the Normans who went on the first Crusade with Tancred and Bohemund grew up in Italy.
The Duke of Normandy Robert Curthose had to hock Normandy to William King of England his brother to afford to go on the first Crusade.
13 posted on
01/31/2011 9:36:54 PM PST by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: Kenny Bunk
But they did hang out around Normandie for a while, enjoying French cuisine, washed down with Calvados, before setting out for England, Italy and points East Trading Coq au Vin for Bangers and Smash. No accounting for some tastes . . . .
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