On 14/05/2016 2:31 PM, John Watson via wrote: > On Friday, 13 May 2016 19:18:00 UTC+1, Jason Quick wrote: >> Possible Ancestry of Main d’Aubigne >> >> Ralph the Large de Gahard > Is "the Large" a correct translation of Largus? Ralph "the Generous" seems more correct. > Who knows? The word 'large' could have either sense until fairly recently in English and still does in French. In the case of a man with nine sons 'largus' may have meant copious, in a philoprogenitive way. Peter Stewart