Talk:Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde

Cryptography

Why did someone put the cryptography section to "Miscellanea"? To him, being and advisor to William the Silent and being a cryptographer was far more important than being a poet.

X10

If someone comes up with actual, somewhat substantial information on his cryptography, that may well be worth a section; as is stands, the only phrase is not even on proper crypto. Obviously his political advisorship was more important (whether to him is hard to say, except from his own hand; any quotation at hand?), the crypto would probably only me a physical means to that iportant end.

My only information is the book I mentioned. I know more about cryptography than about St Aldegonde, but I'll see what I can find. X10 03:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Lord?

lord of Sint-Aldegonde, and the "lord" is written with a small "l" is that correct? I believe it should be capitalised, no? Gryffindor 19:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Obviously tuis is not a literal Lord (British nobility), but the rendering of Renassance Dutch 'Heer', which is used either as a generic term (like lord, no capital preferred, can be in English) or as a low feudal title in chief of a fief, below peerage rank, in fact rather equivalent to French Seigneur, German Herr von ... Calling the l incorrect is going a bit too far, but a move to a Lord version would be in line with common Wiki-practice, so you have my blessing. Fastifex 07:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• • similar remarks also apply to the lowercase p in prince. Standard English capitalizes the first letter of titles, Dutch does not. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 20:57, 6 July 2012 (UTC)