What the fuck were the Normans on in the 1000s? It’s like they magically turned into Supersoldiers out of nowhere and conquered England, Southern Italy, and a few Crusader states like it was nothing

William got lucky,his invasion fleet was delayed by storms so Harold went north to fight the vikings, as a result the Normans had an unopposed landing.

Harold's depleted army then had to march south to fight the fresh Norman army

>>17831868 (OP)
Germanic cavalry was already pretty op even when they just a bunch of hicks squatting in the forests. Once they acquired good armour and logistic, as well a slightly higher iq through eugenic breeding the rest was history.

>>17831971
And even then Hastings was a dawn-til-dusk slogfest in an age where most battles were settled within a couple hours.

The Greeks, Arabs (real ones not the Nafris), and Kurds defeated the Normans many times in that time period.

>>17832007
De Hautevilles permanently destroyed the Komnenoi when they sacked Thessalonica in 1185.

>>17832087
The Byzantines and Komnenos won that war and defeated the Normans, liar.

>>17832108
Andronikos got lynched for it and the Angeloi took over. Afterwards the Hohenstaufen destroyed Norman Sicily and made Byzantium their bitch.

>>17831971
>Harold's depleted army then had to march south to fight the fresh Norman army
the battle in the north and the battle in the south were fought by almost entirely different armies

Christianity.

>>17831971
Also Harold was retarded

>>17832113
The Greeks also defeated the Germans many times.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Constantinople_(1147)

>>17832116
No it wasn't you stupid fucking cunt.

>>17832125
Harold negated most of the Norman advantages in the battle,

Vgh, if only Roussel de Bailleul had succeeded, all of Asia Minor under Latin-Norman dominion......

>>17831868 (OP)
The 1000s was the peak medieval era, no plagues or famines and the population of Normandy soared. Since the normans followed the germanic system of inheritance, only the eldest son inherited the land,the younger sons had to leave home and find their own land.

The De Hautevilles were particularly vigourous in this respect, about 10 brothers were riding about southern Italy, first in the employ of Byzantium and then as the popes mercenary gang

>>17831868 (OP)
>just trust me bro

>>17832007
>real ones not the nafris, kurds
When ? You retarded faggot
Nafri/Berber Almohads kicked out Normans out of tunisia

If you talking about the crusades it was mostly turks who did the job

>>17832346
>Normans out of tunisia
Nafri monkeys lost all of Iberia that their Arab masters had conquered. Then they conquered you in North Africa.
>If you talking about the crusades it was mostly turks who did the job
Turks are the ones who lost it, Nafri monkey.

>>17832358
Baybars, Zengi, Ottomans all crushed crusaders you retard
Even crusaders cried about the turks in their letters
I dont like them but its mostly turks who won the crusades against christians
>arab masters had conquered
Tariq was berber and so was his army retarded cuck

Pls tell me your ethnicity that i laugh you faggot
And what i said is true, nafris fucked the normand in tunisia, fucked the crusaders of saint louis and conquered iberia
Seethe and cope gweron/arap faggot

Test

>>17831868 (OP)
>England
The conquest of England was basically a storm of everything going right for the Normans. Harold had almost no legitimacy as a ruler, had already fought a major battle and took his arm down the entire country to fight the Normans and he died in battle, leaving the English with no unified leadership until Edgar returned to England but it was too late by then and for the next decade and a half William would slowly beat down and destroy English resistance from the Earls and people. William had the backing and active support of nearly all of Northern France besides the Angevins and the King, forming one of the largest armies of the 11th century.
>Southern Italy
This one actually was more systematic, and it almost failed against the local Lombard princes and with the Byzantine armies coming by consistently until 1050. With the end of active Byzantine involvement in the region the Normans were able to finally master the region as they outcompeted the Lombards by essentially playing by a different rulebook. Normans as a whole were regarded as faithless opportunists and tyrants even by other Western Europeans.
>and a few Crusader states
Antioch was the only Norman Crusader State, but much of the military efforts on the Crusade were not Norman but rather in part German and from other Northern French peoples.