Mediaeval Lords: The Rise of the House of Laval
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Abstract
It is virtually impossible to identify with precision the genealogical origins of the family of Laval beyond the start of the eleventh century. The first text to mention explicitly a Guy, lord of Laval, was written in the mid-eleventh century and gives him the title of founder of the stronghold of Laval. Over the centuries many intricate and undoubtedly fictitious genealogies linked the family to Charlemagne. According to the work of Jean Daniel at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the town of Laval had already been a place of note by the time the Romans invaded and the name and arms had been bestowed on its inhabitants by Julius Caesar himself ‘pour leur grand vaillantise’.1 Two centuries later, authors still insisted that the counts were descended from a brother of Pepin the Short.2 The Chronologie historique des sires, puis comtes de Laval gives a more plausible version: the town was founded after 900 and its first lord was named Geoffroi-Guy. He figured in a document dated 1002 in which he was given the title ‘potentissimum viru Gaufridum Guidonem, dominum de Valle’.3
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".