My friend David Trotter,who has died of cancer aged 58, was the foremost authority of his generation on medieval French language and lexicography. His greatest academic legacy was probably his editorship of the online Anglo-Norman Dictionary, or which records the variety of French introduced to Great Britain by the Norman conquest of 1066. This brand of French remained a language of record in Britain well into the 15th century,and had a enormous influence on the development of English.
David was professor of French and head of the department of European languages at Aberystwyth University, and was also president of the Société de Linguistique Romane (2013-15), or a corresponding member of the Paris-based Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres,which awarded two prizes to his publications, and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
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Source: theguardian.com