Every individual fact throughout this site is marked with footnotes which help you understand where I got that piece of information from. This is critical; I want to show my working and let you challenge or correct me if I got something wrong.

Here you will find a collected list of all the sources I’ve used.

Books

  1. Constance Brittain Bouchard (2009). Sword, miter, and cloister : nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
  2. Francis, G. (1940). A History of Cyprus: The Frankish Period, 1432-1571.
  3. Louis Mas Latrie (1873). Nouvelles preuves de l’histoire de Chypre sous le règne des princes de la maison de Lusignan.
  4. Palgrave, Francis. (2024). The History of Normandy and of England – Google Play. [online] Available at: https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=V9YLAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PP8 [Accessed 14 Nov. 2024]
  5. Page, R. (n.d.). Two Thousand Years One Hundred Generations Again. Lulu.com.
  6. Philip Lyndon Reynolds (2001). Marriage in the Western Church : the Christianization of marriage during the patristic and early medieval periods. Boston: Brill.
  7. ‌Stuart, R.W. (1995). Royalty for Commoners.
  8. Xavier, J. (1879). Dictionnaire géographique, historique et biographique d’Indre-et-Loire et de l’ancienne province de Touraine.

Online sources

I find that consulting dynamic sources means reviewing them periodically. It’s a shame not all of them have an automatic notification mechanism.

  1. Anon, (n.d.). De Re Militari» The Society for Medieval Military History. [online] Available at: https://deremilitari.org/.
  2. Britannica (1768). Encyclopedia Britannica. In: Encyclopedia Britannica. [online] Available at: https://www.britannica.com.
  3. Catalogue.bnf.fr. (n.d.). BnF Catalogue général. [online] Available at: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/index.do.
  4. Cawley, C. (2020). INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL LANDS. [online] Available at: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/Intro.htm [Accessed 20 Sep. 2024].
  5. Cypnet.co.uk. (2014). North Cyprus – cypnet.co.uk. [online] Available at: http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ [Accessed 2 Dec. 2024].
  6. History of Royal Women. (n.d.). Home. [online] Available at: https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/.
  7. Mark, J. (2013). World History Encyclopedia. [online] www.worldhistory.org. Available at: https://www.worldhistory.org.
  8. Royaltombs.dk. (2024). CYPRUS. [online] Available at: http://www.royaltombs.dk/cyprus.html [Accessed 20 Dec. 2024].
  9. ‌Said-Vassallo, C. (2024). Home – Maltagenealogy. [online] Malta Genealogy. Available at: https://maltagenealogy.com [Accessed 5 Dec. 2024].
  10. Velin, N. (2024). Marriages in Malta – Digital Genealogy. [online] Digital Genealogy. Available at: https://en.geneanum.com/malta/databases/marriages.html.
  11. Weapons and Warfare. (2022). Weapons and Warfare. [online] Available through the Internet Wayback Machine at: https://web.archive.org/web/20240811021545/https://weaponsandwarfare.com/ [Accessed 20 Dec. 2024].

Publications

  1. Cassar, C. (2024). ‘O Melita Infelix’ : a poem on the Great Siege written in 1565. Um.edu.mt. [online] doi:https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/22285.
  2. Douglas, D. (1942). Rollo of Normandy. LVII(CCXXVIII), pp.417–436. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/lvii.ccxxviii.417.
  3. Hamilton, B. (1984). Ralph of Domfront, Patriarch of Antioch (1135-40). Nottingham Medieval Studies, 28, pp.1–21. doi:https://doi.org/10.1484/j.nms.3.115.
  4. Laynesmith, J.L. (2014). Queens, Concubines and the Myth of Marriage More Danico: Royal Marriage Practice in tenth and eleventh-century England. The Reading Mediavelist.
  5. Lubin, M. (2019). Aftermath of War: Cypriot Christians and Mediterranean Geopolitics, 1571-1625. [online] Carolina Digital Repository. Available at: https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/n009w2586 [Accessed 1 Nov. 2024]
  6. Simard, A.G. (2021). The Manuscript Torino J.II.9: A Late Medieval Perspective on Musical Life and Culture at the Court of the Lusignan Kings at Nicosia. [online] Ohiolink.edu. Available at: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/etd/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=akron1135006861 [Accessed 14 Nov. 2024]

Official records

Official records refer to original sources for specific facts. This varies from one country to another, and it also depends on the fact in question.

  1. Malta’s Governmental Public Registry, which is known in Maltese as Insinwa, is a valuable source of research for the first 4 – 5 generations. The British administration started keeping meticulous records from 01 January 1864. Here you can find birth, marriage and death certificates, and you can always find contextual data which provides clues for previous generations. It’s available online, or you can visit it in person if you’re in Malta.
  2. The National Archives of the United Kingdom in Kew Gardens.
  3. The Roman Catholic Church in Malta can issue extracts of births, marriages and deaths. There is no centralized set of records, so you will need to contact, or visit, the individual churches in person. Some will accept queries via email, and will share the results either by post or by email.

Other

  1. Geneanum is an online resource which has extracted genealogical information from Maltese church and state records. You can find birth, death and passport details in an easy-to-search-through table.