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- ↑ Pierre Bourdieu, The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power (p. 293), Stanford University Press, 1998
- ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch der gräflichen Häuser[Genealogical Handbook of the Comital Houses]. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Vol. XVIII/139. Limburg an der Lahn: C. A. Starke Verlag. 2006. p. 375. ISBN 3-798-00839-6.