Scholars consider the question of this timeline to be important in determining authorship, as the original timeline would place Malory's birth in the early to mid 1390s. He would therefore have been at least 75 when Le Morte was completed, as he must have been at least in his late teens or early 20s at the time of his commission: his peers of the same rank in Dugdale's record were in their mid- to late-twenties. According to the alternate timeline, his birth would have been around 1415-1418 and his age would have been a much more reasonable 55 to 58 years when Le Morte was completed.
Scholars consider the question of this timeline to be important in determining authorship as the original timeline would place Malory's birth in the early to mid 1390s He would therefore have been at least 75 when Le Morte was completed as he must have been at least in his late teens or early 20s at the time of his commission his peers of the same rank in Dugdale's record were in their mid- to late-twenties According to the alternate timeline his birth would have been around 1415-1418 and his age would have been a much more reasonable 55 to 58 years when Le Morte was completed