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Excerpt from Norman Architecture in Cornwall: A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture, With Notes on Ancient Manor-Houses
The English and the Normans were really kindred nations; for, while the Danes were making settlements in England, other of their kinsmen from the North were making Similar inroads and settlements in France. Just as Alfred granted a large part of Britain to Guthrum on condition that the latter was baptized, so, in 912, Robert, Duke of the French, agreed to grant part of the land to the pirate - leader, Rolf or Rollo, on similar conditions. This land was called, from its new settlers, the Land of the Northmen, afterwards the Duchy Of Normandy, and it was these men who, in 1066, under the great William, defeated the English at Hastings.
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