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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Burden of Proof for Henry I's Daughter Elizabeth, within the Table of Sovereigns of Britain.
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:04:44 -0500


Vide infra.

Actually, C. Warren Hollister, a respected professor of Medieval History
at the University of California, Santa Barbara was working on a
biography of Henry I for over 30 years.

He died in September 1997, before he could finish it.

However, there are reports that only a single chapter remained to be
written and one of Professor Hollister's graduate students allegedly
wrote it.

So, we can expect a solid biography of Henry I from Yale University
Press, in the English Monarchs series.

That's the Good News.

The Bad News is that since Hollister is/was not a Genealogist, we can't
expect much in-depth, "startling new information" on Henry's Bastards.

The best secondary sources I know for the Bastards of Henry I are CP and
Given-Wilson & Curteis.

Exitus Acta Probat.
--

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas
--

"Volkov boyat'sya v les ne khodit'" --- Russian Proverb --- [If one is
afraid of wolves, one should not go into the forest.]

"Chris & Tom Tinney, Sr." <> wrote in message
news:...
| According to Encyclopdia Britannica,
| "There exists no adequate biography of Henry I."
| http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/1/0,5716,40861+1,00.html
|
| SEE: Table of Sovereigns of Britain, at:
|
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/single_table/0,5716,126593,00.
html
|
| ALSO:
| http://www.royal.gov.uk/history/since802.htm
|
| Until an "adequate biography of Henry I" is undertaken
| and produced, by either the British Monarchy, or a
| recognized scholarly institution, the genealogical resolution
| of Henry I's illegitimate children, (and their connected
| posterity), appears moot.
|
| Respectfully yours,
|
| Tom Tinney, Sr.
| http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/homepage.htm#Here
| Listed in: Who's Who In The West, 1998/1999
| Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry,
| [both editions]
| -------------------------------------------------------
| "D. Spencer Hines" wrote:
|
| > Vide infra.
| >
| > 1. The Burden of Proof is not on me to Refute anything. The Burden
of
| > Proof is on those who claim that Henry I had an illegitimate
daughter
| > named Elizabeth, who married Fergus of Galloway.
| >
| > 2. Show Us The Proof. I'm convinced by proof, not wishful hopes
and
| > expectations. Alison Weir is an absurd genealogical source. I'm
not
| > required to Refute Alison Weir either. She must prove her case.
Does
| > she cite a source for her supposition?
| >
| > 3. Barrow, op. cit. p. 331 in the 1965 edition does not have a note
26.
| > The 1988 edition may have a note 26. Does anyone have that edition?
| > Twenty-six [26] footnotes on a single page is rather unusual, unless
| > they have been renumbered from the beginning of the chapter.
| >
| > 4. Does anyone have access to Barrow, op. cit., 1988?
| >
| > 5. Please note the "said to be..." in CP. Not very solid.
| > --
| >
| > D. Spencer Hines
| >
| > Lux et Veritas et Libertas
| > --
| >
| > Hamlet: "Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
| > Polonius: "By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed." --- Hamlet:
| > "Methinks it is like a weasel." --- Polonius: "It is backed like a
| > weasel." --- Hamlet: "Or like a whale?" --- Polonius: "Very like a
| > whale." --- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), _The Tragedy of Hamlet,
| > Prince of Denmark_, III, ii, 384-390 [N.B. Portrait of a
sycophantic
| > American academic, circa 1999.]

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