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The history of England, like the land and its people, has been specially insular, and yet no land has undergone deeper influences from without. No land has owed more than England to the personal action of men not of native birth. Britain was truly called another world, in opposition to the world of the European mainland, the world of Rome. In every age the history of Britain is the history of an island, of an island great enough to form a world of itself. In speaking of Celts or Teutons in Britain, we are speaking, not simply of Celts and Teutons, but of Celts and Teutons parted from their kinsfolk on the mainland, and brought under the common influences of an island world. The land has seen several settlements from outside, but the settlers have always been brought under the spell of their insular position. Whenever settlement has not meant displacement, the new comers have been assimilated by the existing people of the land. When it has meant displacement, they have still become islanders, marked off from those whom they left behind by characteristics which were the direct result of settlement in an island world. The history of Britain then, and specially the history of England, has been largely a history of elements absorbed and assimilated from without. But each of those elements has done somewhat to modify the mass into which it was absorbed. The English land and nation are not as they might have been if they had never in later times absorbed the Fleming, the French Huguenot, the German Palatine. Still less are they as they might have been, if they had not in earlier times absorbed the greater elements of the Dane and the Norman. Both were assimilated; but both modified the character and destiny of the people into whose substance they were absorbed. The conquerors from Normandy were silently and peacefully lost in the greater mass of the English people; still we can never be as if the Norman had never come among us. We ever bear about us the signs of his presence. Our colonists have carried those signs with them into distant lands, to remind men that settlers in America and Australia came from a land which the Norman once entered as a conqueror. But that those signs of his presence hold the place which they do hold in our mixed political being, that, badges of conquest as they are, no one feels them to be badges of conquestall this comes of the fact that, if the Norman came as a conqueror, he came as a conqueror of a special, perhaps almost of an unique kind. The Norman Conquest of England has, in its nature and in its results, no exact parallel in history. And that it has no exact parallel in history is largely owing to the character and position of the man who wrought it. That the history of England for the last eight hundred years has been what it has been has largely come of the personal character of a single man. That we are what we are to this day largely comes of the fact that there was a moment when our national destiny might be said to hang on the will of a single man, and that that man was William, surnamed at different stages of his life and memory, the Bastard, the Conqueror, and the Great 10 Things You May Not Know About William the Conqueror Did you know? Twenty years after taking control of England in 1066 William the Conqueror ordered a survey of his kingdom that became known as the Domesday Book William the Conqueror: E A Freeman: 9781438536781 William the Conqueror King of England is my 25th Great Grandfather which made me interested in the history of this man and his influence over England William the Conqueror - Military Leader King - Biographycom Follow the tempestuous life of William the Conqueror who served as duke of Normandy before he was crowned king of England at Biographycom How did William the Bastard become William the Conqueror? Timeline outlining William the Conquerors life including his rise from the Duke of Normandy to King of England William I king of England Britannicacom William I byname William the Conqueror or William the title William I but he is commonly called William the biography/William-I-king-of-England; William the Conqueror - Wikipedia William I (c 1028 9 September 1087) usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard was the first Norman King of England William the Conqueror - Home Facebook William the Conqueror 356 likes 32 talking about this 1217 were here Newly refurbished Family-friendly Pub/Restaurant on the banks of River William - Wikipedia William I of England (10271087) aka William the Conqueror or William the Bastard; William II of England (10561100) aka William Rufus; William I 'The Conqueror' (r 1066-1087) The Royal Family Born around 1028 William was the illegitimate son of Duke Robert I of Normandy and Herleve (also known as Arlette) daughter of a tanner in Falaise William the Conqueror - History Learning Site William the Conqueror should strictly be known as William I William is credited with kick-starting England into the phase known as Medieval England; William was the
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