langue d'oïl refers to the mutually intelligible linguistic variants of lingua romana spoken since the 9th century in northern France and southern Belgium...

then Kingdom of the Franks, and settled the land that became known as Normandy, these North-Germanic–speaking people came to live among a local Gallo-Romance–speaking...

using it at all in their courts. In 1204, the Anglo-Normans lost their continental territories in Normandy and became wholly English. By the time Middle...

retrospectively be referred to as the Angevin Empire. He inherited the duchy of Normandy and the counties of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine from his father Geoffrey...

great majority of French territory was part of Aquitaine, the Duchy of Normandy, the Duchy of Brittany, the Comté of Champagne, the Duchy of Burgundy,...

which have entered the English language from a Romance language (usually Anglo-Norman), or were borrowed directly from Latin. Quite a few of these words...

porc Cow (Anglo-Saxon cou) – Beef from the Old French bœuf Chicken (Anglo-Saxon) – Poultry from the Old French pouletrie or poule Sheep (Anglo-Saxon scæp)...

Qafár af National Language in:  Eritrea Afrihili – El-Afrihili Proposed lingua franca of Africa Afrikaans – Afrikaans Official language in:  South Africa...

entered Old French as Normands, whence the name of the Normans and of Normandy, which was conquered from the Franks by Vikings in the 10th century. The...

Coalition commanders in chief, the Duke of Wellington, commander of the Anglo-allied army, and Prince Blücher, commander of the Prussian army, the French...