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Subject: Re: Geoffrey Plantagenet's name
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:45:54 EST



In a message dated 2/7/2006 9:10:59 AM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

This is certainly a sensible (but not historically accurate) way to refer to
him since that's what he's commonly known as now, regardless of what his
contemporaries called him.


What did his contemporaries call him?

Should we continue to use nomenclature invented by Victorian, patriarchal
snobs when we could just call someone Geoffrey, Count of Anjou (or whatever he
was called)?

Will Johnson

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