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- ↑ Isabel Barros Dias (2010), "Livros de Linhagens", in R. Graeme Dunphy (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle , vol. 2, Brill, p. 1040.
- ↑ Luís Adão da Fonseca; Paula Pinto Costa (2015), "Historiography and Portuguese Identity: How in Medieval Portugal the Kingdom Is Seen Through the Eyes of the Iberian Peninsula", in Flocel Sabaté; Luís Adão da Fonseca (eds.), Catalonia and Portugal: The Iberian Peninsula from the Periphery, Peter Lang, pp. 269–293 (esp. 275–277).