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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: Ives de Criel
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 16:19:26 -0400


Adrian Channing wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > >1. Wace is not considered to be a reliable source.
> > >
> >
> > By whom?
>
> From "My Ancestors Came with the Conqueror" by Anthony Camp (recently cr
> O.B.E.)
>
> "Wace's "Roman de Rou", in which he gives 117 names, 73 of which are merely
> teritorial and not indevidual. Modern scholarship has found him to be
> grossly inaccurate and quite unrelaible. Andresen in his standard edition
> proved that Wace did not begin Part III before 1170 and puts the earliest
> possible date for his birth at 1100"
>

Van Houts has recently published an attempt to rehabilitate Wace, but
the comment about him giving territorial names that are difficult to
link with actual individuals is a valid one, either way.

ta

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