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Geni Discussions - Comparing French & English Medieval Naming Traditions.Coalition for the Standardization of Geni Naming-Conventions.Please note that this field is searched and displayed in Geni search results. The language-specific Wikipedia name can be used as a guide.Īll name variants and additional nicknames should be placed in the Also Known As field. When a name is in a dialectal or archaic form, this field may also be used to provide an alternative in the language to which your Naming Fields are set. This field should be used as a more concise reiteration of the modern name usage. If a woman holds a title in suo jure, or by her own right of inheritance, please include this title in the suffix field.Įxample: comte d'Urgell or Heiress of Belvoir. For simplicity and legibility, use the titles of most importance and place other titles in the Occupation field. In many cases, a person will have multiple titles. The suffix field should be used for titles.
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Use the names they were known by at the time. In most cases, this field should be empty (or have the birth surname duplicated in it), since women did not usually take the name of their husband in this period, except in very specific cases. In the case that both a patronymic and a surname exists, place the patronymic in the Middle Name field, and the surname in the Birth Surname field. In the case that both patronymic and toponymic names exist, place the patronymic name first, followed by the toponymic.Įxample: Remíriz d'Aragón or FitzGilbert de Clare. Toponymic Toponymic names, or noms de terre, are place-based names that generally reflected a noble family's lands or estates over which they had sovereignty or a person’s place of birth.Please use proper case for this and all other fields. Occasionally this name became the name of a royal house which was passed down to their descendants. This was case for both men and women as wives did not take the name of her husband. If they did have a surname, it was usually either toponymic or patronymic. Obviously, people did not have surnames in this period (at least as we commonly use them today). * Patronymic Patronymic names are based on the personal name of one's father, and change every generation (See below)īirth Surname Field - ONLY if the name has become a Surname that is passed on to future generations The more common use of this field for medieval profiles is for sobriquets, or nicknames, enclosed in single quotes (' '), double quotes (" ") or guillemets (« »), depending on the language, & patronymics. Middle names are rare in the medieval period if the person had two names, they usually used both in combination.Įxample: Pèire Bernat. (Cut & paste from Wikipedia etc can provide the appropriate diacritical marks if they aren't a function on your keyboard.) Try to get the name as close to the original name as possible, taking into account the original language/ dialect and time period.
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Given name (birth or baptism) in their respective language, followed by their ordinal, if applicable. , and place titles in the Suffix field (see below).
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