Publisher's Synopsis
What is so Special About Normandy? Normandy is known mostly as a place of battle. War was known in Normandy all the way back to the roman times. We know Julius Caesar came in and famously defeated "All of Gaul," as it was called then. The war lasted from 58BC-50BC (BC dates go backwards). Julius Caesar himself gives the best known details of the war in his own book Commentarii de Bello Gallico. Winning the Gallic Wars was a big deal because it helped Caesar become the ruler of the Roman Republic. Who was William the Conquerer? William was born in 1027 and his father, named Robert, was the duke of normandy. When William was 8 years old, is dad left him to go on a pilgramage (a pilgramage is a journey someone takes to a Holy place. The Duke went to Jerusalem.) Left alone, William had to fight a lot against the lords of Normandy.
