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- ↑ the first, according to K. Hopf despite his primary source, Marino Sanudo
- ↑ Loenertz, p 162
- ↑ Bury (1886), pp. 333, 350
- ↑ It was in fact his wife who became "marshaless" through her second marriage with John of Saint Omer (Loenertz p 164 and 170)
- ↑ Loenertz p 170
- ↑ Bury (1886), pp. 337–338, 350
- ↑ Geanakoplos (1959), p. 284
