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- ↑ Proposed by Round ("The Origin of the Stewarts" in Studies in Peerage and Family History, p.122) and accepted by Hamon Le Strange (Le Strange Records, p.10.) and Keats-Rohan (Domesday Descendants, p.842).
- ↑ Proposed by Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire Vol II p.8.
- ↑ Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1120, fo. 174r
- ↑ John Burke: A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England . Oxford, 1831. S. 498