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- ↑ "Breteuil, Robert de, fourth earl of Leicester (d. 1204), magnate" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47202. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 14 July 2019.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ "Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester (c. 1208–1265), magnate and political reformer" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19049. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 14 July 2019.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)