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- Malcolm Barber, The Trial of the Templars, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2001) ISBN 978-0-521-67236-8.
- Paul Crawford, The 'Templar of Tyre': Part III of the 'Deeds of the Cypriots' (Routledge, 2016 [2003]).
- Laura Minervini, "Gestes des Chiprois", in Alan V. Murray (ed.), The Crusades: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2006), vol. 2, p. 530.
- Philip de Novare, The Wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus, ed. and trans. by John L. La Monte and Merton Jerome Hubert (Columbia University Press, 1936).