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- ↑ Jeffrey S. Widmayer, "The Chronicle of Montpellier H119: Text, Translation and Commentary," The Medieval Chronicle IV, ed. Erik Kooper (Rodopi, 2006), 233.
- ↑ Cf. the Annales Flores and Annales Paulini .
- ↑ Le petit Thalamus also contains the final written version (1204/5) of the Coutumes de Montpellier, based on those given Lord William VIII just before his death in 1202.
- ↑ Widmayer, 231.
- ↑ Widmayer, 232.
- ↑ An inherent error in the anno domini system means, however, that it was not exactly 814 years after Christ's birth either, but this error was unknown in the Middle Ages.