Definitions for "Normans"
people who came from Normandy in France. They came to England and settled after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. King William was Duke of Normandy as well as King of England.
The Normans were a people whose origins were in Scandinavia (the name is adapted from name "Northmen" or "Norsemen") who played a major political, military and cultural role in the northern and Mediterranean parts of medieval Europe for centuries. Their most famous achievement was the colonisation (and naming) of Normandy and the "Norman Conquest" of England which started with the Battle of Hastings in 1066.