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This is apparently a real person. See this search. -- Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 18:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Why, if the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography lists him as Hugh the Chanter, and practically every book I have on my shelves lists him the same way, is he under Hugh Sottovagina? Surely there is a reason. Ealdgyth | Talk 01:18, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose someone thought that was a funnier name.--Bedivere (talk) 13:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OED - "Hugh the Chanter [Hugh the Chantor, Hugh Sottovagina] (d. c.1140), historian, may have had family origins in Flanders or Picardy, a suggestion supported by the other name by which he was known, Sottovagina (Sottewain in the vernacular), evidently a nickname meaning ‘foolish (or absurd) scabbard’. It was an unusual name, which Hugh shared with a number of individuals associated with York. Thomas Sottovagina and his brother Ernulf, for instance, both York canons, occurring from the 1120s to the 1150s, may have been Hugh's nephews or sons." Parrot of Doom (talk) 08:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]