Selected Links to Other Websites of Medieval Genealogical Interest

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  • Calendars of Patent Rolls
    http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/patentrolls/

    Online facsimile of the published calendars from 1216-1462, including a search facility. The site provides minimal guidance, so you need to understand how to make use of the Calendars before accessing it.


  • Anglo-Saxon Charters
    http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/

    A wealth of online information about sources from the Anglo-Saxon period in England, compiled on behalf of The British Academy - Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters.


  • Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
    http://www.pase.ac.uk/

    A database which aims to cover all of the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the end of the eleventh century. It is based on a systematic examination of the available written sources for the period, including chronicles, saints’ Lives, charters, libri vitae, inscriptions, and coins.


  • Prosopography of the Byzantine World
    http://www.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/

    The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire aims to record all surviving information about every individual mentioned in Byzantine textual sources, together with as many as possible of the individuals recorded in seal sources, in the period 642-1261. This is a large and complex database. The total number of persons included (made imprecise by frequent expressions of doubt), is just above 10,000. Because of the ways in which elements combine and recombine, it is not possible to compare the size of the database directly with a regular book. However it would be impossible to compress this material into less than about 1400 pages, of which around 10% would be in Greek, a significant element in Latin and a small fraction (so far) in Arabic. [For a commentary see Genealogists' Magazine (2007) 29:150]


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