On Richard II's language

I just wanted to make a point of clarification in response to Crystal's comment about Richard II learning French first.

When William the Conqueror took over the British Isles in 1066, he established his language (French, from Normandy, a province). French became the courtly language; English was the language of the commoners. In Richard's time, all the court spoke French first and all court documents were done in French. Also we must'nt think of England and France with hard and fast boundaries (national boundaries are a much later phenomenon). The line of William the Conqueror held territory in France for hundreds of years (and sometimes the monarch kept his court in France). It wasn't usually an England vs French war; it was a territory accumulation type of war).