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William the Conqueror invated the island of Britain from France
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In the 12th Century a 19,000 line biblical text written by a monk called Orm is an important resource on his regard
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In the 12th Century Francien words from Central France were imported in addition to their Anglo/Norman catch.
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It recorded its last entry
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The Oxford University was founded.
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England became even more isolated from continental Europe
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King John's ineptness lost the French part of Normandy to the King of Franced and the Norman nobles were forced to look more to their English properties
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The University of Cambrige was founded
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This war had the effect of branding French as the language of the enemy
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In the 14th Century noun genders had almost completely died out, and adjectives were reduced to two inflections
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The black death killed about a third of the English population, about 4 million people
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In the middle of 14th Century, French words continued to stream into English at an increasing pace
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The Statue of Pleading made English the official language of the Courts and Parliament
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English had become the language of instructions in schoo
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Henry IV who came to the English throne was the first monarch since before the conquest to have English as his mother tongue.
