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- ↑ GCatholic.org: Diocese of Trier
- ↑ Fibicius' death, and the start of the rule of his successor, is sometimes put at 511.
- ↑ Eugen Ewig and Friedrich Prinz maintained that he was; Erich Wisplinghoff thought not.
- ↑ H H Anton: Trier im frühen Mittelalter