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Jean Claes (footballer, born 1902)

footballer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ44745998 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean Claes (10 July 1902 – 1 March 1979) was a Belgian footballer. He played in one match for the Belgium national football team in 1925.

Editorial summary

“Jean Claes (footballer, born 1902)” enters the record as footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jean, Claes and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902, 1979, 1925—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1902-07-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jean, Claes and footballer.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jean Claes (footballer, born 1902)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jean, Claes and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q44745998. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902, 1979 and 1925.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jean Claes (footballer, born 1902)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jean Claes (footballer, born 1902) primary sources, Jean Claes (footballer, born 1902) archive and Jean research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jean Claes (footballer, born 1902)”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jean Claes (footballer, born 1902)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.