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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Greetings!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Has anyone ever been able to find a date for the name
<Alix> ? I was looking through The May ’98 LOI at <Alix von
Ravensburg> because my submitter wants the name <Alix> - </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dauzat, p. 6, shows Alix as a variant of </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alice</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> with no
date. Withycombe 3rd ed., p. 15 says that various forms of </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alice</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> were common
in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>France</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>England</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> in the
Middle Ages and that the name is still used in </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>France</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> as Alix.
Talan Gwynek: I've never managed to find an actual period citation for Alix,
but it's consistent with what I know of Old French orthography. (However, it's
probably just a variant of `s' here.)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Will this work for the current CoA, do you think? My French resources
in books are slim, I only have Noms de Famille from Morlet. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The other half of the name for the curious is <de
Bohun>. I’m gonna look it up in my placenames books. I don’t
think this one will be a problem though.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Yours in service,</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Jayme</span></font></p>
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