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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: MARESCHAL
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:05:14 -0400


BHewett563 wrote:
>
> Looking for Norman origins of Wm.Marshal{regent,d.1219}. Found ?solid-looking?
> info in The Norman People{Genea. Pub.}, & The Falaise Roll{Crispin &
> Macary,1969} BUT Round in Feudal Eng.{1909} pooh-poohs both books
> unrelentingly.

Round is right. Both books make good doorstops, but bad genealogical
sources. The best discussion of the Norman origins of this family that
I have seen was in the NEHGR many years ago (in the 40s?).

ta

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