Why did the post-Roman Gothic kings (Visigoths, Ostrogoths, etc) eventually speak Vulgar Latin instead of pushing Germanic onto the population like the Normans did to England?

by erudarkangel73

title pretty much speaks it all.

Why are the Spanish and Italians not speaking descendants of Gothic?

jkvatterholm

Not an answer to the main question, but you probably mean the Anglo-Saxons, not the Normans. The Anglo-Saxons brought Germanic to Britain when most people spoke Celtic.

The Normans came centuries later, and spoke an old French language/dialect, which was the basis for a lot of loanwords into English, but it didn't catch on beyond the elite.