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- ↑ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der freiherrlichen Häuser, Gotha 1858, p. 96 (Bsb10917702-9 Digitisat)
- ↑ entry in Pierer's Universal Lexicon, Bd 3, Altenburg, 1857, p. 835
- ↑ "Bayerns Heerzug nach Griechenland, contradictorisch erörtert nach Grundsätzen des Rechts und Politik", Stuttgart, 1833, p. 58 (Digitisat)
- ↑ Copy of confirmation of arms to Louis Charles Augustus de Cetto and Maximilian Henry Aemilius de Cetto, sons of Auguste Baron de Cetto, National Library of Ireland, Dublin
- ↑ L 'Almanach de Gotha pour l'Année 1834, Gotha 1834, S. 264
- ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann 'Manual of diplomacy 1815-1963: Foreign missionaries in Germany and German missionaries abroad from Metternich to Adenauer' 'Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 40, ISBN 3110956845; (Digitalscan)
- ↑ The Times No. 29643, London 11 August 1879, p.11
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