Talk:Matilda of Tuscany

message: "Everywhere else§ I find her year of death to be 1115 - I've changed it. -- Robodoc.at 13:45, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not provable, so removed. Srnec 05:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Out of curiosity, can we have a source/reference for the claim that she was a descendent of a Merovingian king? Djnjwd 18:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not provable, so removed. Srnec 05:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merovingian ancestry

message: I wonder how old must gossip be, to be acceptable in a Wikipedia article. Cosmas' story is highly entertaining, but also a little crazy. In the Middle Ages people were perhaps used to rickety furniture, but even then I doubt a comparatively old woman would have chosen a table on sawhorses as her conjugal bed: supposing her seduction had worked, just imagine making love on it. Besides, was Matilda feasting her wedding alone for 117 days, after her seduction did not work?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.159.42 (talk) 15:10, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medieval gossip 

message: Shouldn't the entry be corrected? Look at the quoted http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/369347/Matilda-of-Canossa
The great mix (the great-granfather) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalbert_Atto_of_Canossa, (the father) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boniface_III,_Margrave_of_Tuscany referred to as "of Canossa" does not allow a correct study of the history of the House of Canossa.
Could the editors please correct the title of the entry?
Marialuisa M  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marialuisa M (talk • contribs) 13:51, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Marialuisa, to rename an article, wikipedia has a process, Wikipedia:Requested moves.  The easiest way to convince other editors to support the move is to show that most sources refer to the subject by the name you are requesting the move to.  Try doing some searches on books.google.com, and see how many hits each variation gives you.  You might also ask if someone can show that more people search wikipedia for Matilda of Canossa (which currently redirects the user to this page).  1bandsaw (talk) 20:05, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Or Matilda of Canossa? 

message: The contributor who remarks that olive oil was hard to come by, and presumably precious, especially in the area of Canossa Castle, is quite right. The olive tree does not grow in the Po Valley, much less in the Appennine. It is however a fact that oil is reported to have been largely used for lightning purposes,as being less expensive than candles; and another, that several common family names of the area contain the word "oil". I suggest it was probably not olive oil, but walnut oil. The  walnut tree does prosper both in the Po Valley and in the Appennine mountains, up to about 800 mt/a/s. it could also have been hemp oil.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.155.99 (talk) 16:47, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pouring oil from towers 

message: Thanks to Aldebaran69 for the immense expansion of this article. I started working on it in 2015 but effectively abandoned it, and I am thrilled to see it in its current state. I am a bit concerned that the article might now be too big, i.e. sprawling, and would suggest moving most of Matilda_of_Tuscany#Origins_of_the_House_of_Canossa to House of Canossa as well as shortening many of the other sections to focus more on Matilda (e.g. the large first paragraph of Matilda_of_Tuscany#Birth_and_early_years does not seem to be about Matilda at all). Surtsicna (talk) 12:32, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks