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- ↑ Bavaria - military leaders. Archived October 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Wilhelm Volkert, Richard Bauer: Handbuch der bayerischen Ämter, Gemeinden und Gerichte 1799-1980 (German), 1983, p. 336 ff. ISBN 978-3-406-09669-3
- ↑ after 1808 also minister of war
- ↑ ADB (de)
- ↑ ADB:Raglovich, Clemens von (de)
- ↑ 2847 Raglovich, Clemens von, House of the Bavarian history (HdBG).
- ↑ father of Felix Graf von Bothmer, see also (de)