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- ↑ Manfred-Hiebl website, Gebhard I
- 1 2 Bernhardt, 101 and n62.
- 1 2 New Advent website, Ratisbon
- ↑ Bernhardt, John W. (1993). Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c.936–1075. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511562372. ISBN 978-0-521-39489-5.
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