By what names would the factions have been known?

[fenir]

Just a Couple of Things...

1. Didz

By the time of the Norman invasion of England, The Kingdom of England, the name, kingdom et cetera... was well established.
In fact for over 100 years.
At Alfreds' Declaration, That he was the King of the Anglo-Saxons, or more correctly the West Saxons.
he was Recongnised as the Titilar head of the Lands of England by the pope, pope Leo IV in 836AD if memory serves me.
This was because he was Sent to Rome at the age of Five Years.
Not bad for the 5th son of the King, born in Wantage, then Berkshire, now oxfordshire.

The Losely matched earldoms? Wessux was the Godwin Family, the Future King, His Brother was the Earl of Northumbia, and his cousin was the Earl of Mercia.
They were far from loose. They were under the direct control of the king of England.
Hence is why Godwins' Father, actually had the Earldom of Wessux removed and his land confiscated by the King, only to be returned after he promised to behave.
That was roughly about 1049AD. Don't quote me on the Date.

Shires.
The shires of england existed before the norman invasion.
How do we know? beause the Daneslaw is mentioned in specific part the areas of shires they controlled over 100 years before the norman invasion.
The Shire system is actually credited to Alfred the Great, From establishing Burgh's, or Boroughs. Further Information about this can be found in Alfreds Burghal hidage manuscript from 893AD.
In battles Alfred fought against the Danes he Qoute "relied greatly upon the Three great earlderman of mercia, wiltshire, and somerset.


Infact, William the bastard, later William the 1st of England, planned the norman invasion based on the Kent and Sussex areas. They Actually said they thought going though winchester in hampshire as being to far from supplies and reinforcements in Normandy.
Another fact, bedfordshire, where you come from, was mentioned as a shire about 1019AD. It orginally comes from "Bedas ford", which means a river crossing, and was an important transit route. And not far from the Capitals of the Mercian's and West Saxons.

William also had the Beauty of Alfred the Greats Great Codex of Roman law, to which Alfred wrote based on the law of the Codex Civlis of The Roman Empire.........THE Eastern Roman Empire.
This is called the Deemings, or the book of doom, oh? look where William got the Doomsday book from?
This Code of Alfred, was used and quoted by his successors, and therefore, grew into a customary body of law, which was used by the Shire councils, and the hundred courts.
WOW, shires 893AD.


I would go on, but i would bore most of you.


Just a note, the Family names of the Kings of England.

Blois, planeteganet, Anjou, Lancaster and York, and the Tudors. Are all one family.
The Planetgenat....Which in the Royal line died out with the Death of Henry the VIII; Called Tudor.
The family however Does still exist... The Second marriage of John of Gaunt, otherwise known as John of Lancaster....a very famous man, who declined the throne so many times it's unreal.

Son of the King, Brother of a king, Uncle of the King and granduncle of a king, Father of Kings.
This man is the true meaning of noble.

His 2nd marraige, to Kathrine Swynford, was barred from assuming any position of royalty, and barred from male line assending the throne of England. which is still in effect to this day.
They are the Seymour family, The Dukes of of Somerset.
John of gaunt is considered to have more living relatives to this day, than any other important figure in history.

John, 1st Duke of Lancaster......His legitimate heir was Henry Bolingbroke, eldest son 1st Marraige.

Who deposed his cousin and regined as Henry the IV of England, after his fathers death in 1399AD.

John of Gaunts Elder Brother was Edward of Woodstock, "The Black Prince".


Oh man I can go on.

The Byzantine Empire. <==== Never Ever existed, no group or people in history in there own time were ever called this.

Never in it's existance, by themselves, or any other recorded history in their time, Where they were refurred to as such.
The east Roman Empire, After the death of the Western part, Became, The Roman Empire. To which both used themselves respectively, as The Roman Empire.
When the Western Empire fell, all government and the like fell upon the Eastern Empire, hence they ruled from Spain to Persia.
The only recored time in the history of their existance, when they were refered to as anything different than the above, was when the pope's envoy called the Emporer, the Emporer of the Greeks.
For which he almost lost his head. Needless to say, he got a 4 week lecture on the history of the Empire by the brother of the Emporer. <--i'm not kidding.
That Emporer was Alexis I Comenue <sp>.


I do not know the correct date, but sometime in the 16th c. A frenchman trying to legitimatise the Crowning of Charles the Great of France as the Roman Emporer.
Called the East Roman Empire the Byzantines, in other words, the same thing we all do to put someone or something down in favour of our own personal feels, was done way back then. What a time honoured tradition.

And of course after a while people claiming something, keep repeating it, the Russians did it, to claim the Roman Hertiage, the French many times, the germans Always, and the Italians today still try.

Today, many people continue the name byzantine, and in historical terms it actually referrs to a period of roman history, the later, last stages after the Death of herculis, or Justin. Depends on where in the world you come from.
Up until the fall of the imperial Captial in 1453 AD.

So the term/name Byzantine is actually a Derogotory nmae for the Roman Empire.

Anyway enough from, i am going to read some old texts


fenir oh yeah i'm bad again.