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- ↑ Poull, Georges (2006). Les Dames chanoinesses d'Épinal (in French). Haroué: G. Louis. p. 11. ISBN 978-2-9145-5459-6. OCLC 470756993.
- ↑ "mittelalter-genealogie.de". www.mittelalter-genealogie.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2002-11-27. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
- ↑ Migne, Jacques Paul (1851). Encyclopédie Théologique, t. 9 : Dictionnaire de statistique religieuse (in French). Paris: J P Migne. pp. 419–422.
- ↑ François, Jean (1769). Histoire de Metz (in French). Marchal. p. 422.
