Thread 214765245

What do you think about English history?

>>214765245 (OP)
I like the part where we raped you

>>214765245 (OP)
Kinda boring.
I'm only really interested in some of the more mysterious early Germanic Kings like Offa because they're so foreign to what we later know of as England.
After William, I don't really see much that is interesting beyond the times the English went to France or Germany to fuck around.

cool I guess

>>214765395
All the strong Danish men left for England in the 8th century, all that's left is the germanified FREAKS like you

>>214765395
You guys literally collaborated with them during the norman campaigns

>>214765245 (OP)
Yes. Why is the flag of the Lombard league so similar to Saint George's Cross?

It's interesting to see how you went from Britannia rule the waves to whatever your current state is in 60 years

>>214768871
It's the genoese flag. During a crusade the genoese ferried them to the holy land and the english king bought the flag for his own use

>>214769467
>>214769504
Which imo is very similar to how fast italian seamanship jus vaporized in less than a century. It takes generations to build a credible navy (not just the ships) and seamen but it can all be lost in 1-2 generations

>>214769504
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_League
>The association succeeded the Veronese League, established in 1164 by Verona, Padua, Vicenza, and the Republic of Venice
You sure? Seems to be Venetian in origin. They sponsored Welf, which later became Hanover, but the British only had Hanover monarchs by the late 17th century. It's just bizarre to me.

>>214769618
On the origins of the flag and its connection to the Genoese flag, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, said in a speech in Genoa in 1992:

The St. George's flag, a red cross on a white field, was adopted by England and the City of London in 1190 for their ships entering the Mediterranean to benefit from the protection of the Genoese fleet. The English Monarch paid an annual tribute to the Doge of Genoa for this privilege.[9]

>>214769707
I also read that both Britain and France originally had some Trojan origin story. The oldest printed text in early modern English was a history of Troy. Medieval France also thought they descended from the Trojans. In some more obscure comparative mythologies Saint George is sometimes seen as a Christian adaptation of Perseus. Does Italy have anything like that? When did Troy move from being considered historical to being mythological?

>>214769813
>Brut sett London Stone

>>214769813
Are you confusing the french with Virgil?

>>214765245 (OP)
evil people that kill cute bpd egirls for no reason at all

>>214769927
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francus
>Francus or Francio is a mythological figure of French medieval historians which referred to a legendary eponymous king of the Franks, a descendant of the Trojans, founder of the Merovingian dynasty and forefather of Charlemagne.
Niet. I was talking about Francus. It's not accepted history anymore it's considered mythological now.

>>214770017
No shit it's a meme. Btw the Franks werent even a real people but a collection of peoples and not all of them were even germanics, they even had latins and gauls. So they spent a lot of time to create the image of a united people through myths and stories

>>214770084
France didn't truly centralize until Richelieu and it definitely wasn't under Trojan identity, the Gallicans washed that out just as the Church of England did. The only reason I mind it at all is because The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first ever book printed in English. Then Byzantine collapses and everyone starts trying to run their own church.

>>214765245 (OP)
Raped and conquered for 2000 years

>>214765245 (OP)
I don't really know anything about it desu. I don't think we had much contact before WW1.

My knowledge of English history comes from playing 300 hours of CK2.

>>214765245 (OP)
The reformation period, New England colonies, and English Civil War period of English history is kino as hell

>>214771955
CAREFUL NOW

>>214772815
Why did they let him get away with all that shit?
How was he able to keep support despite acting like an absolute cunt all the time?
Was it just bribing people with the money he took from the churches?

I'm only interested in the HYW

>>214765245 (OP)
love it
https://youtu.be/C61BKSMtyhI
basically the protagonists of History