rms2
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- Ethnic group
- British/Irish
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R-L21 (S145, M529)
- mtDNA haplogroup
- U5a2
Well, right now in the Normandy Y-DNA Project the most frequent subclade is R-L21 (R1b1b2a1b5 or R1b1b2a1a2f). That could change, since it is a new project, and membership numbers are still relatively small. But with the y-dna profile in Northern France not all that different from that right across the Channel in Britain, it makes things difficult to sort.
I've heard different figures for the numbers of Normans who settled in Britain, with 8,000 being in the very low range. There could have been three or four times that number. I don't think their circumstances paralleled those of the Germanic invaders in Iberia half a millennium earlier. The Normans controlled a much more advanced military, administrative and ecclesiastical system than did the various motley tribes of Germans in Iberia, and the Normans were just a short boat ride across the Channel from their original homeland.
Again, I wasn't positing "total replacement" of the native Brits/Anglo-Saxons by the Normans or anything even close, but I do think the Normans (and their compatriots, the Bretons and the Flemish) made an impact, probably a fairly sizeable one.
I've heard different figures for the numbers of Normans who settled in Britain, with 8,000 being in the very low range. There could have been three or four times that number. I don't think their circumstances paralleled those of the Germanic invaders in Iberia half a millennium earlier. The Normans controlled a much more advanced military, administrative and ecclesiastical system than did the various motley tribes of Germans in Iberia, and the Normans were just a short boat ride across the Channel from their original homeland.
Again, I wasn't positing "total replacement" of the native Brits/Anglo-Saxons by the Normans or anything even close, but I do think the Normans (and their compatriots, the Bretons and the Flemish) made an impact, probably a fairly sizeable one.