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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Maud
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 19:57:14 +0100
| Sir Roger de Mortimer b 25 Apr. or 3 May [sic] 1287 d 29 Nov 1330 m
| bef 6 Oct 1306 Joan de Geneville CP VIII 433
Actually, this should be noted as 25 Apr/2 May 1287, rather than _or_,
because it is simply Old Style [Julian] and New Style [Gregorian] dates.
Roger was not born on one or the other. It's the same date, just
expressed in two different calendrical systems.
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