Talk:Cornelis de Hooghe

I suggest to delete the contribution “New findings on De Hooghe’s family and bastardy claim”. It is insufficiently worked out, isn’t covered by peer reviews and contradicts data that has well been proven by scholars, like Dr. Gestman Geradts, who’s dissertation is mentioned as a source or other sources mentioned here. It merely coveres suggestions without proof, like the author admits himself by stating “there is no mention of any family ties”. As long as there hasn’t been found any evidence, these remarks belong to the discussion pages and not to the main contribution page where only peer reviewed data belongs. In Breda no birth of Cornelis has been found despite the fact that the Breda birth records are available and many other children of Frans Jan Geldofsz de Hooghe can be found there. The so-called brother of Cornelis, Adriaen, can not been found in the Breda birth records either. So the whole theory “New findings” lacks a stable base. There are no real reasons to alter the existing theory that De Hooghe was born in The Hague as many contemporary sources including his well conceived death sentence states. His birth in Breda is a wild speculation as is the assumption that De Hooghe wasn’t a royal bastard. The information in the offspring-paragraph is correct but has not been checked and confirmed by any literature other than the contemporary sources. The Adriaen-paragraphe may be correct but implies a speculation like the contributor states him/herself and as long as it is a opinion or theory by the sole contributor, doesn’t belong to a scientific Wikipedia subject. Ronald Barendse (talk) 11:16, 25 October 2023 (UTC)