Talk:Clan Boswell
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Richard Nevell in topic Hastings nonsense
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Hastings nonsense
editThere are a sum total of two dozen Norman knights known to have been at Hastings, none of them named Boswell. Any source that reports 'our ancestor was a commander at Hastings' is, well, not entirely fastidious with respect to historical reality. Any source that repeats such claims credulously is showing that it deserves no 'reputation for fact-checking' that underlies being a WP:RS. Agricolae (talk) 13:37, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- Sounds reasonable. In some cases (not looked into it here) it might be worth noting that a family claims to have had an ancestor who was at Hastings if it's relevant and is then presented with the caveat that we only have a couple of dozen names from the Normans at Hastings. Richard Nevell (talk) 19:11, 1 August 2018 (UTC)