Normanisation

English

Noun

Normanisation (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of Normanization
   • 1977 -, Old Kilkenny Review, page 262:

     By 1460 the name Donogh was dropped from the Ossory Line and the building of Cullahill Castle about this time by Fineen as H.Q. was actually a big move towards Normanisation.

   • 1997, Rosalind Mitchison, G. W. S. Barrow, Why Scottish History Matters, page 33:

     Most of Wales had already been conquered by Anglo-Norman barons; Edward I had only the north-west to subdue, and in doing so he completed the final stage of the Normanisation of Wales.

   • 2016, Jeremy Black, A History of the British Isles:

     Normanisation also affected the Scottish Church, leading to new monastic foundations and stronger continental links.