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>>17190462
The army is pretty small, 10,000 men in a country of 3,000,000 and wasn't followed by colonisation. Of course, I think he's overstating how much Norman ancestry the upper classes retained, what with intermarriage - it's probably in the low single figure percentages. The Norman names are a lot stickier and tend have only reached more or less parity with good old Anglo names recently, they still retain some prestige.
>https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/60593/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRARY_Secondary_libfile_shared_repository_Content_Cummins%2C%20N_Surnames_Cummins_Surnames_2015.pdf