If you want to know how I put all this information together, I suggest taking a quick look at the footnotes used for the various articles. These footnotes always link to the sources I use for each article.

This list is a collection of all sources I’ve used so far for this site. I shall update this as I go along.

Online sources

  1. Medieval Lands
    Charles Cawley’s detailed genealogy of nobility in Europe is an invaluable reference. As well as quoting his sources, he takes great care to point out where sources contradict one another. I have used his website extensively, particularly sections on the dukes of Aquitaine, dukes of Normandy, and Carolingian nobility.
  2. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. Cyprus History (Cypnet.co.uk)
    This is a collection of information about North Cyprus. It started as a University project by two Turkish students living in the United Kingdom.
  4. Malta Genealogy
    Also known as the Libro d’oro, this site is a good reference point. They don’t always quote their sources so I used the information here as a good stepping stone to getting the information I needed.
  5. Weapons and warfare (Offline site: www.weaponsandwarfare.com)
    This used to be a great source for warfare from every era in history. I used it to supplement information about wars and critical events my ancestors were involved in.
  6. The Aftermath of War: Cypriot Christians and Mediterranean Geopolitics, 1571-1625 by Matthew Lubin. Mr Lubin published this dissertation in 2019.
  7. The world history Encyclopedia is a detailed history encyclopedia.
  8. The English Historical Review.
  9. De Re Militari – The society for mediaeval military history

Books and publications

  1. Nouvelles Preuves de l’Histoire de Chypre sous le Regne des Princes de la Maison de Lusignan (EN: New evidence of the history of Cyprus under the reign of the House of Lusignan) is an 1873 history book written by M. Louis Mas Latrie and published in Paris. M. Latrie used many Venetian sources to write his book.
  2. Dictionnaire géographique, historique et biographique d’Indre-et-Loire et de l’ancienne province de Touraine by Jacques-Xavier Carré de Busserolle is a late eighteen century history book published in France.
  3. Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianisation of marriage during the patristic and early medieval periods published by Philip Lyndon Reynolds in 1994. This was critical to understand how to interpret marriage records in medieval France.
  4. Queens, Concubines and the Myth of Marriage More Danico: Royal Marriage Practice in tenth and eleventh-century England was published by J. L. Laynesmith in 2014. This was critical to understand how to interpret marriage records in medieval Europe, especially for the Viking Rollo.
  5. Two thousand years one hundred generations again by Robert Page (ISBN 9781446193990) is one man’s research into his own family tree. The Dukes of Aquitaine were his ancestors and some of his research corroborates my other sources. There is an abridged version of this book on Google Books.
  6. The history of Normandy and England, by Sir Francis Palgrave. He has a good, if sometimes lengthy, description of the Viking invasion of France, the politics involved and how Normandy then invaded England.
  7. Dr Matthew Lublin’s doctoral thesis Aftermath of War: Cypriot Christians and Mediterranean Geopolitics, 1571-1625 gives a detailed and well-researched view of Cyprus and its place in Mediterranean geopolitics.
  8. Royalty for Commoners by Roderick W Stuart contains a detailed collection of family trees and lineage for European royalty.
  9. Ralph of Domfront, Patriarch of Antioch (1135-40) by Bernard Hamilton is an excellent research paper that enlightened me on 12th century political and religious issues in Antioch, and why the bishop was so keen to con Raymond’s mother-in-law.

Other

  1. The Government of Malta’s records.
    I relied on the national registry (MT: Insinwa) to get information about our more recent ancestors. The government only has records going back to 01 January 1863.
  2. The Malta Historical Society’s Melita Historica.
    Volume III, No 2 (1981) of the society’s proceedings contains an essay about a poem on the Great Siege written by Luca de Armenia, “O Melita Infelix” and describes the de Armenia family around Luca.
  3. France’s Catalogue General de la France provided information about Saint-Pierre’s Abbey.
  4. History of Royal Women is an online resource documenting information about the lives of female royalty through the ages.