A Norman New Year!

Happy new year and nice write up and coin!

 

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There was a specific tactical advantage to that Norman hair style. In battle, it amounted to one less way the enemy could put you in a perilous situation if he was unable to grab your hair, then slit your throat. It was one fewer thing to worry about for the Norman warrior. It was also an outward symbol of one's warrior status. Whether or not one actually was a warrior, the hairstyle gave the impression that someone was - not unlike the popularity of "virtual baldness" adopted by those emulating the current "hairstyle" fashion of the military.

 

Very interesting and helpful, thanks!

 

@Magnus Maximus
Great write-up (as always). I love getting my 'history' this way.
I am afraid that my only 'Norman' coin (Roger) is the same as 'Zumbly's' (sorry).

 

A very good write-up about an interesting period in european history.
Well done!

I have always been interested by the Normans and their conquest of England.
The area of France where they originated is, still today, a historic and romantic place.

I do not have any early Norman coinage, but I do have this penny of Richard the Lionhearted, king of England and Duke of Normany, Aquitaine and Gascony.
Richard I the Lionhearted was a direct grandson of William the Conqueror.






Here is a write-up I did a few years ago on the history of Richard I the Lionhearted.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/richard-i-the-lionhearted-coeur-de-lion.106564/#post-882847

 

Very nice write up and coin, @Eduard!

 

Turns out that the modern day beagle is descended from the Tallbot hounds that William the Conqueror brought to England in 1066.

Irony of ironies that Rosie is my dog then
Happy New Year everyone!

 

Happy New Year everyone

MM I am pretty sure that you and husband must be cousins on some level.

Excellent write up.

 

More Normans?

 

Husband's ancestor came across to England with William the Conqueror.

 

Well, due to the fact that the OP and your husband are descended from the Northmen, here is a coin from king of Norman descent.



Obverse:
HENRICVS REX III: Bust facing.


Reverse:
TOMAS ON EVERW: Long cross.

Weight:
1.48 grams.

Diameter:
18.26 mm.

 

I would like to find a William the Conqueror coin for hubby, without taking out a mortage

 

Get a Norman coin from Richard I or the other Norman Dukes. If his ancestors came over with the Conqueror then they certainly lived under the Dukes.

 

Awwww, that's a very cute dog-photo ... M&M, that's a cute lil' Santa-friend

I have this sweet photo from Halloween ...

=> Larry & Buster, rockin' their Trailer Park Boys outfits!!

 

There is supposed to be a tentative marriage connection to Bill the Boss himself which is why I wanted one of his coins. Hell, I don't want hubby getting too interested in coins.

 

Thanks!
The Holidays are always her favourite time of the year because she gets dibs on leftovers.

 

Oh bless you Ann, that made my night!

 

Sounds similar to Alexander III the Great of Makedon that had his men shave / cut their beards so they were not pulled from their saddles or had them grabbed to get their heads hacked off in battle.

BTW @Magnus Maximus , GREAT write up and coin!

 

Yeah, my Blue is 1/3 Australian Shepherd, 1/3 Basset, 1/3 Beagle. I traced her X-Y & Z chromosomes back to the William-who-illegally-took-England-type-guy also. I had a hard time getting Blue to spit... but we got it done with her slobbering over some lamb chops...

Oh wait, that was ME that had the genome tests. Mine came up Irish, Scandinavian, and Finnish... rats, oh well. None of that Briton/Anglo-Saxon/Norman in my blood...

Wow, comparing my Avatar to my posted pic... Blue has aged a bit...

 

@Alegandron
Thanks!
The Normans honestly remind me of the early Romans.

From Britannia.com
"Among the Norman traits regarded by their contemporaries as specially characteristic were their utterly unbridled character and their capacity for quick and fruitful imitation and adaptation. The former characteristic contributed to the production, by a process akin to natural selection, of lines of outstandingly able and ruthless rulers wherever a Norman state came into being"

and

"Specially marked by cunning, despising their own inheritance in the hope of winning a greater, eager after both gain and dominion, given to imitation of all kinds, holding a certain mean between lavishness and greediness, that is, perhaps uniting, as they certainly did, these two seemingly opposite qualities. Their chief men were specially lavish through their desire of good report. They were, moreover, a race skillful in flattery, given to the study of eloquence, so that the very boys were orators, a race altogether unbridled unless held firmly down by the yoke of justice. They were enduring of toil, hunger, and cold whenever fortune laid it on them, given to hunting and hawking, delighting in the pleasure of horses, and of all the weapons and garb of war."~ Goffredo Malaterra