Drake Fabrication

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Medieval France and England
Surname/tag: Drake

Contents 1 Summary 2 Earliest Profiles 3 Later Profiles 4 Locations 5 Sources

Summary

This profile is intended to provide whatever information we have found describing a fabrication in which various profiles related to the surname Drake, including medieval profiles of real people to whom the surname Drake was erroneously added, as well as profiles of invented persons and invented connections between real or non-existent people.

Profiles of persons associated with the Drake Fabrication are linked on the Drake Fabrication category page.

Earliest Profiles

The earliest profiles associated with the Drake Fabrication were duplicates of real persons but with the surname Drake added. The erroneous profiles have been merged into the real profiles, including the following: (Assume that dates shown are estimates)

• Raoul Gouy, b. 0877, and his wife Eldegarde d'Amiens, b. 895
• Raoul de Cambrai, b. 915, incorporating the former profile of "Raoul Drake, b. 904.
• Gauthier Vexin d'Amiens, b. 925
• Gauthier Vexin de Mantes, b. 944
• Adele Senlis de Mantes, b. 947
• William Fitzharold, b. 1089. Incorporates William FitzHarold Drake

Later Profiles

Beyond this, the fictional Drake line presents profiles which do note equate to real profiles, and eventually connect to a real Drake line.

• Humphrey Fitz William Drake, b. 1130

Locations

One of the locations associated with Drakes which also occurs in the Fabrication is Drakenage. This appears to be a real place in Devon, England.

Other locations associated with the profile of William FitzHarold Drake are Dreakement (location of his son Ralph), and de Draca (location of his son William.

Sources