Fw: Earls of Cornwall and Poitou

Moderator: MOD_nyhetsgrupper

Svar
Leo van de Pas

Fw: Earls of Cornwall and Poitou

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 17 jan 2007 04:05:37

I am not beating my chest "I am the grand know all", like someone around
here, I am as puzzled and simply give suggestions. My quoting CP already
removed part of the original question. Be careful with grandstanding you
might just fall of your soap box.

As this sample quoted by you already contains an error, how much faith
should we have in it?

If this is your best, how bad is your worst?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Richardson" <royalancestry@msn.com>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval,soc.history.medieval
To: <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Earls of Cornwall and Poitou


Leo van de Pas wrote:

Sir E could that have been a form of address used in those times? or
a miss
writing? Sir Earl of Poitou and Cornwall?

Wrong again, Leo. Enough of the secondary sources. It's time you
spent time in the original records.

A transcript of text in English can easily be found at the following
weblink:

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h ... ge0125.pdf

The English text refers to "Sir R. earl of Poitou and Cornwall."

The earl intended is Sir Richard, Earl of Poitou and Cornwall, who was
a younger son of King John. Royal princes were routinely addressed as
Sir in the medieval time period, much as Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, was
addressed as "Sir E[dmund], the King's son") [Reference: Giffard,
Reg. of Walter Giffard Lord Archbishop of York 1266-1279 (Surtees
Soc. 109) (1904): 65] .

I also might mention that the original text in Latin would use the word
"dominus" for "Sir."

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah


-------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
GEN-MEDIEVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the
quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Svar

Gå tilbake til «soc.genealogy.medieval»