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- noun Plural form of
Anglo-Norman .
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I do think, Greg D., that Liz might have mentioned the Anglo-Normans.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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December 13th, 2009 5: 53pm just Louise - 'I do think, Greg D., that Liz might have mentioned the Anglo-Normans'.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Other names introduced by the Anglo-Normans include Eilis, Liam, Seamus, Ralph, Richard and Muiris, all of which only began appearing in Irish records after the invaders turned up.
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A new study has found that many names thought to be from auld Ireland, including Sean, arrived with the Anglo-Normans in the 12th century.
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The Anglo-Normans were replaced by the Angevins whose hold on England was secure, and they also acquired additional lands in western France, Maine, Potiou, Anjou, Touraine, Gascony, Saintonge, and Aquitaine.
Archive 2007-12-30 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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The Anglo-Normans were replaced by the Angevins whose hold on England was secure, and they also acquired additional lands in western France, Maine, Potiou, Anjou, Touraine, Gascony, Saintonge, and Aquitaine.
The Hundred Years War Background, Part #1 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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It was his misfortune to preside over the Irish Church during the time of the alleged Donation of Ireland by the English Pope Adrian IV to King Henry II of England, the arrival of the first Anglo-Normans, and the replacement of the old Irish ecclesiastical customs with those of England.
03/01/2003 - 04/01/2003 John 2003
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(See 1171) The period following the expedition of Henry II (1171) was marked by a steadily developing conflict between the feudalization of the incoming Anglo-Normans and the old tribal organization of the Irish.
3. Ireland 2001
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On _chansons_ written in French by Anglo-Normans, see "Mélanges de poésie anglo-normande," by P. Meyer, in "Romania," vol.iv. p. 370, and
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Anglo-Normans and English begin to codify and interpret their laws; they write general treatises; they collect precedents; and so well do they understand the utility of precedents that these continue to have in legal matters, up to this day, an importance which no other nation has credited them with.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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