Matilda of Scotland - Alternative data from Merges

Maud is a nickname for Matilda. In fact, Douglas Richardson, an expert in medieval genealogy, argues that in common speech the name was always Maud, but because we encounter the name as Matilda in Latin charters, the Victorians got the idea that the name was formally Matilda and Maud was only a nickname.

http://www.royalancestry.net/publications.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_(name)

Doug Richarson is an excelleant source! He and N.E.H.G. are two of my best sourses. Of course I have more than the two. But he is very good!

Ahh great - thank you Justin Durand that makes sense - I'll put it back into her profile name then.

In things I've seen over the years it's usually both. They write Matilda also know as Maud. I usually put it in that way. That way all basis are covered and if one person knows her as one and another knows her by another , at least they know they have the right person. Some people have four or five names, you can't ingor that fact. It's a fact of life, that's all! Judy

Yes, agreed. I've include her original names too. Way to please everyone and no one, I know :-)

Surname Atheling OR of Normandy

Sharon Doubell@sharon, Aethling was a term loosely meaning heir to the throne so not a surname as such.

Agreed, Terry - just recording the data from the merged in profile.
So, are we all happy with the profile details as they are now?

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Forename Eadgyth – Matilda; Edith Matilda

Well I just learned something new here I never knew Maud was considered a mick name for Matilda and I my family tree Maud is used as a given name only with no nicknames and no middle name

Kudo's Sharon and Justin for bring something to light that is new to me.

This is great Sharon - I think a records of removed data should be kept also

it is but many people just use Maud. It's like mercy and Mary and sometime and why I don't know Mary and Sally. That just doesn't make sence!Judy is a nickname for Judith , yet I have know people just named Judy.. You have to put peoples names in the way it appears on their birth records. Spelled the way they wanted it spelled, weather you agree with it or not. Because it's their name. You can't assume Maud id really Matilda unless it shows up in a record. Judi , you are right, it could be just Maud. In this case it wasn't but never assume! I'm with you on that one Judi.

A lot of people go by middle names too. My mother did. I never knew her middle name was really her first name , until after she was dead. My uncle Ernest was really frank Ernest and so on. Must be careful out there people!

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