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- ↑ Jean Dunbabin, France in the making: 843-1180, (Oxford University Press, 2000), 65.
- ↑ Constance B. Bourchard, Those of my Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), 146-147.
- ↑ Raphaël Bijard. "La construction de la Bourgogne Robertienne (936 - 1031)". Academia.
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