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Dieu et mon droit

>mfw I found out that the English, whomst I thought were quintessentially Angles, Saxons and Jutes, are actually based on some French family

>>10865290
>>10865822
Horatio Nelson once said

>"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

Now you know why

who are the lannisters

>>10865859
The opposite of Greeks

>>10865290
it's spelled lancaster retard

>>10865875
Lancasters are a branch of the Plantagenet

>>10865290
Reminder that the first men are anglos and that the andals are french

>>10865896
i know, that's why i'm so surprised this retarded faggot didn't realize the lancasters and plantagenets were related, but what can you expect from the literal retards of /his/

>>10865859
I think they're a type of falcon

>>10865903
the fastest i hear

>>10865290
>king of england
>king of the romans
Wat?

Pretty much every member of the Royal Family has ancestry from Europe, like most of Europe's royal families have British ancestors. Even the Tudors were fucking Welsh and not English.

>>10866002
They were massive LARPers

>>10866041
Except for the Plantagenets, it's not just "ancestry"
It's literally some random French count who crowned himself king of England one day, and then his successors kept speaking French (while ruling in fucking London) for centuries

That's some massive humiliation
To think that England's greatest hero, Richard Lionheart, couldn't speak a word of English...

>>10865290
I wonder how did it feel to be ruled by a King who didn't even speak English

>>10866213
I bet anglocucks were used to it
Before the Angevins took over, England had been ruled by the Normans (who spoke French) and by the Danes (who spoke Danish)

>>10866234
And even later, by Hanoverians (who spoke German).

>>10866248
Don't forget the Welsh and the Scots (well, at least they spoke English)

>>10866262
By your own standards the Stewarts wouldn't count as Scottish, spastic.

>>10866002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard,_1st_Earl_of_Cornwall

>>10866210
>Richard Lionheart
Wasn't he the lad that nearly bankrupted the kingdom playing crusader?

>>10866210
Harry Kane is England's greatest hero

>>10865290
>my last name is irish
>thought I was Irish
turns out i'm a dirty mutt, with my highest percentage being 27% Fr*nch

>>10866766
yes and king John, his brother, is remembered as a villain for trying to fix the economy.

>>10865290
England was under Norman rule for a very long time, so the English probably share a quite a bit of French DNA.

>>10866210
by the time the War of the Roses started the Plantagenets had been fully absorbed in English culture

>>10867175
only a few hundred Normans permanently relocated to England, they had almost no effect on the genetic make up of Britain

>>10867233
Oh, see I was talking out my ass. I do know, however, the English language was endangered during that time, as French was the dominant language. English pretty much got on through trade and the underground.

>>10867228
>English
>culture

>>10867254
kek

>>10867115
COYS

>>10865865
>greeks are poor, brown, gay and fuck outside the family
I guess they are the polar opposite.

>>10867511
richard the lionheart was a gay tho

>>10865290
>I feel cheated

>>10867581
Well he's french so that's a given.