There is not any kind of reference here Sofia "being a Finn"?? or belonging to Finland. I don't know how many times it must be explained for you, as I already said, that subject was only about the language tabs of the Geni - and how the name appears here for different users, using different languages.
After that I only answered your arguments, which were a bit arrogant and rude. I also explained the word Ruhtinas that you stated "unfamiliar to heads of German garrisons", I have never stated they used word Ruhtinas there in that time. I do not believe the old word itself was unknown to germans though. Ruhtinas would be the title used in Finnish tab in Geni for Wetseke of Koknese, not her daughter nor granddaughter. At finnish tab page the title for female would be Ruhtinatar, maybe for Wetsekes daughter and kreivitär for Sofia von Hoya, but we have left finnish language tab empty for Wetseke, Sophia and Sofia. So - You misunderstood badly, even after explaining now twice, and you must see there are different titles in different languages.
Also you shouldn't confuse fennomania with Finlands history, apparently you need to be educated about that too.
Finland has been inhabited since the end of the ice age approx. 11,000 years ago. Finland's archaeological golden age is still ahead and there are currently so many discoveries that there is a queue to investigate them.
As for the language, one cannot be certain; the current theory is that Baltic Sea Finns later developed in Northern Estonia into Late Finnish, where a distinctive material culture developed continuously. The Finnish language from there spread to the south-west and west coast of Finland in the older Roman Iron Age, where there was already an earlier Baltic Finn settlement.
Speakers of many Finnish family languages that have since disappeared, have arrived Finland during the Bronze Age.
Based on the genetic paternal lines, it shows that the majority of the ancestors of the Sámi people who migrated to Southern Finland around 1600 or 1500 years BCE did not move elsewhere, but instead changed their language to Baltic Finnic.
Next, the culture first spread to the Kokemäenjoki estuary and from there inland to Häme and east all the way to Karelia and Vepsänmaa. After ending up in Karelia in the 6th–7th centuries, the internal unity of the Baltic Finns had disappeared and the connections between the more distant parts of the culture and language weakened and separated into their own versions,
Finnish material culture became independent from this broader Baltic Sea Finns culture in the 6th–7th centuries, and by the turn of the 8th century, the metal object culture that prevailed in Finland, especially women's jewelry and different types of weapons, had developed into its own and had indigenous features more abundantly than ever before. The aim of this development is clearly to express a special _Finnish identity_, which was born from the image of a common origin and mutual similarity. Broadly speaking, the same time can be regarded as the birth of the independent Finnish language, although its prehistory, like other Finnic languages in the Baltic Sea, extends far into the past.
The first mention of the Finns, most probably the Sámi, under the name fenni can be found in the Roman senator and historian Tacitus' work Germania, completed in 98. In the Widsith collection of poems written in the 5th–6th centuries, it is mentioned that a person named Cælic ruled the Finns (Finnum). During the Crusades, Finns are mentioned in a letter known as Gravis admodum drawn up by Pope Alexander III in 1171 or 1172.
In addition to the Finns, many early historical sources have also written about other Finnish tribes, such as the Hämäläiset, Karjalaiset. The Hämäläiset (Yem) are mentioned for the first time in Novgorod's first chronicle around the year 1042, and the Karelians are mentioned in the letter 590, written approximately between the 1060s and 1080s.
About twenty sources concerning Finland and Finns are known from the 12th century. About half of these were born in the Papal Curia and the rest mainly in the Novgorod chronicles. Also Al Idrisi wrote about Finland.
This contemporary information is supplemented by sources written in the 13th and 14th centuries, such as the Legend of St. Eerik, the Legend of St. Henrik, and the Chronicle of Eerikinkronikka. About two hundred written sources about Finland are known from the 13th century.
There is also information about Kvenland that was partly in Finlands area, Kainuu in Icelandic sagas.
More interesting info about Finland here in old map: Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium terrarum (Latin for Marine map and description of the Northern lands; commonly Abbreviated Carta marina) is the first map of the Nordic countries to give details and place names, created by Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus and initially published in 1539. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina
Towards the end of 12th century, the heathen parts of Europe were confined exclusively to the lands situated on the east coast of the Baltic Sea, inhabited by the Baltic and Finnish peoples – from the Vistula estuary to Finland. Term Livonia collectively describes the area of modern Latvia and Estonia. In German historiography there is an analogous term ‘Alt-Livland’ to describe a loose federation of areas under the bishops’ rule. Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order. ‘Alt-Livland’s’ end is marked by the first Livonian War and secularization of the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order.
The knighthoods together ruled the region of Livonia, Courland and Saaremaa, i.e. roughly the area corresponding to present-day Latvia and southern Estonia.
This relatively small area was inhabited by a mosaic of Baltic peoples (Latgalians, Semigallians, Selonians), Finno-Ugric Livonians and ancestors of Estonians as well as inhabitants of Courland with disputable ethnogenesis.
None of these ethnic groups managed to found their own state before the beginning of the 13th century), only small local communities – ruled by so-called ‘seniores’, i.e. local influential persons existed. The land was very loosely dependent from neighbouring Ruthenian principalities – Duchy of Polotsk, Duchy of Pskov and Duchy of Novgorod.
It has been unclear if there are any reliable primary sources for Wetsekes father. Father might be either Vsevolod Glebovits of Polotsk or Boris Davidovits, Prince of Polotsk. Do you have primary sources?
The Sophia of Kokenhusen, like her father, was left without sons. He had one daughter from his second marriage, the daughter was named Sofia according to her mother. Johannes de Thisenhusen, a vassal of the archbishop of Riga, a knight and noble lord, married the heiress, whose father was a German-born progenitor of the Tiesenhausen noble family. Johannes, or Hans, died a martyr's death in a battle against pagan Lithuanians. He is buried in Falckenau Abbey. Sofia was born a.1240 from the second marriage of Bernardus von Hoya. Kokenhusen was given to him, Bernardus was also a knight, son of Stumpenhausen and Count Hoya. .
As Sofia was daughter of Van Hoya, her title would have been probably Gräfin (german)countess, if any. I have not seen her specific title in any primary sources.
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