Talk:Alan Rufus

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Inflation

I have removed the following from the article

In 2007, it was estimated that this was equivalent to £81 billion.

As discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Kenilworth Castle there are major problems with converting historic sums to modern values, especially those over 900 years old. For instance the MeasuringWorth website only goes as far back as 1245. Nev1 (talk) 14:44, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

The original Times article can be found here. It reports the findings of Philip Beresford and William Rubinstein in compiling The Richest of the Rich: The Wealthiest 250 People in Britain Since 1066. Nev1 (talk) 14:57, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

There's probably a spelling mistake: "The Margam Annals and a 13th-century chronicle assert he died in 1189" - perhaps it should be 1089. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.50.137.129 (talk) 17:14, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Verification...

I've gone through some of the online references, and have a bit of a concern about the text they're being used to support. I've added some inline tags, but to explain further:

• "Geoffrey Gaimar's "L'Estoire des Engles" and Wace's Roman de Rou both assert Alan Rufus's presence as Breton commander in the battle" - I can't find this on the cited webpage. The target webpage links off to another 207 pages, and it may potentially be on one of those, but I can't be certain.
• "A cavalry contingent hastened to Cambridgeshire "in late 1066". One account asserts that Alan had a sister Matilda who married Walter D'Aincourt, Earl of Derby, in 1065 in the Cambridgeshire town of Bourn)" - the webpage doesn't make any reference to Alan, Matilda, etc.
• "the coat of arms of the University of Cambridge prominently incorporates a Cross Ermine, a symbol of Brittany." - the cited webpage contains a small university logo, but doesn't give any link to Brittany
• "As constable of his new castle, Alan chose Enisant Musard (Enisandus Musardus of Pleveno)" - no mention of any castles, constables, etc., and the webpage warns that it may refer to multiple individuals rather than just one.
• "Enisant was a tenant of Alan's at Cheveley in Cambridgeshire" - no mention of Enisant on the website that I can see
• "Research by David Roffe indicates that the Survey was conducted in this order" - it may be elsewhere on Roffe's website, but not on the page indicated

It's worth noting that many of these links were also to primary, rather than secondary, sources: in many cases, the text of Domesday Book. Hchc2009 (talk) 07:08, 26 August 2013 (UTC)