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For approximately 200 years after the Norman Conquest (1066), the Court, the courts of law and all new noblemen spoke Old French, whereas the Anglo-Saxons spoke - well - Saxon, the forefather of English, but gradually these two languages combined into Middle English (the language in Canterbury Tales).
Short answer:
about the 5th Century to about the 13th Century = Old English
from the 13th Century to the 16th Century = Middle English
Long answer:
Prior to the Norman conquest of 1066, England spoke Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon or Ænglisc.
After the Norman Conquest of 1066, English was replaced by Anglo-Norman for awhile, by the upper class, while the Old English that was spoken by the common people developed into the next historical form of English, known as Middle English. Middle English lasted until around the year 1500.
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