Their courts produced two great mapping traditions, represented by the Hereford Mappamundi in England and the maps accompanying Idrisi's "Book of Roger" in Sicily.

Norman rule did not end until 1204 when England was defeated by Phillip II and the French invasion of Normandy. As part of the Treaty of Le Goulet, England lost Normandy, Anjou and Maine to France ...

THE Norman conquest of England, led exactly 950 years ago by William, Duke of Normandy (“the Conqueror”), was the single greatest political change England has ever seen. It was also very brutal.