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- ↑ Libro de los fechos et conquistas del principado de la Morea. 1885. Juan Fernández de Heredia, Alfred Morel -Fatio. Imprimerie Jules -Guillaume Fick.
- ↑ L'Achaïe féodale: étude sur le moyen âge en Grèce (1205-1456). Diane de Guldencrone. 1886. E. Leroux. Book Collection from the University of Michigan.
- ↑ The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Teresa Shawcross. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 0199557004
- ↑ La Morée franque: recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe.Antoine Bon. Published by E. de Boccard, 1969
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