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- ↑ Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 549
- ↑ William Miller, "The Latins in the Levant. A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566)" (1908), page 574
- ↑ R-J Loenertz, Les seigneurs tierciers de Négrepont, Byzantion, vol. 35, 1965, re-edited in Byzantina et Franco-Graeca : series altera (1975), pp 176,180
- ↑ William Miller, "The Latins in the Levant. A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566)" (1908), pages 574 and 577
