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- ↑ Nicolas Oikonomidès, « John VII Palaeologus and the Ivory Pyxis at Dumbarton Oaks », Dumbarton Oaks Papers, no 31, 1977, p. 329-337, p.331
- ↑ William Miller dates the marriage as "just before" the departure of the Comte de Nevers that month, without citing a source. (Miller, "The Gattilusj of Lesbos (1355–1462)", Byzantinische Zeitschrift 22 (1913), p. 414)
- ↑ Chronicle 24:3; translated by Marios Philippides, The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes, 1401-1477 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1980), p. 52