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- 1 2 3 4 5 Ursmer Berlière, "t'Serclaes (Jean)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 25 (Brussels, 1932), 727.
- 1 2 Honoré Fisquet, La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana): Cambrai (Paris, Étienne Repos, 1864), pp. 228-230. On Google Books.
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| Preceded by Gérard de Dainville | Bishop of Cambrai 1378–1389 | Succeeded by André de Luxembourg |