France objects to Waterloo euro coin

[Rum]

I think this is true. They were more or less a bunch of feuding relatives who owned land on both sides of the channel. I'm sure they rarely thought of the island of England as a separate 'country'. The notion of statehood was pretty alien in any case, just kingdoms with shifting boundaries of power and influence - and of course taxation.

The museum at Agincourt wasn't bad at all actually. It was objective in the way it laid out the battle and the background. There weren't any French visitors there when we were though..

[Svartalf]

England wass recognized as an actual kingdom though, which made the ERnglish king's being a vassal of the French for Normandy and Aquitaine a major bone of contention and the cause of numberless squabbles... after all, a century and more before the 100year war, Philip August was fortifying Paris against raids from Normandy... wyhile Richard Lionheart also had a bunch of castles built in his French territories.

[klr]

I think it's misleading to say that England ruled over parts of France. Or vice versa.

It's just the people at the top who rule. Very little changes for anyone else.
The English king might have ruled territories on the continent that are part of modern France.
But the English Kings were french, and lots of them hardly spoke a word of English.

You could equally say that England was ruled by a French king rather than bits of France were ruled by an English king.

I think Richard the Lionheart didn't speak any English, if I remember right.

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