Talk:Thomas Moulton (knight)

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"misprinted by the scribes of the period"

This is an oxymoron, and not only because there was no printing at the time. There was no standard spelling of names. Standard spelling in English at all is a 19th century development. At "this period", no-one wrote in English; it had lost status with the Norman invasion. The vernacular only became the language of law or administration - of scribes - again because fourteenth-century plagues created a shortage of people educated in the languages of literacy. The scribes of the time wrote in Latin and in Norman French, usually Latinising or Frenchifying personal names - names which were variously Francophone, Germanic, Scandinavian, or Celtic...or a mixture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.215.140 (talk) 23:59, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Idiocy removed in edit today Clifford Mill (talk) 21:57, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking of idiocy

This guy is listed as an early admiral at Admiral (Royal Navy) with their sources dating his "commission" to 1264... 20 odd years after this guy's death. (a) That was obviously a different guy altogether and (b), whatever he actually was, he wasn't an admiral under the title admiral, which hadn't yet reached England from Norman Sicily and Genoa.

Unsourced mention removed entirely from this article and incoming links adjusted. If they're restored, kindly also adjust the other articles as well. — LlywelynII 14:19, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]