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- ↑ "Saint Falco of Maastricht" saints.sqpn.com
- ↑ Frans Theuws, Mayke de Jong and Carine van Rhijn, Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages (2001), p.164
- ↑ Régis de la Haye, De bisschoppen van Maastricht (1985), p.39
- ↑ Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913
- ↑ Christian Settipani, Les ancêtres de Charlemagne (1989)