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- ↑ Nonn, p.89; Ewig, pp.1,11.
- ↑ Nonn, pp.89–90.
- ↑ Nonn, p.90.
- ↑ Despy (1961) gives a critical review of this document and its versions. It was recorded in the Abbey chartulary and in the much later third continuation of the chronicle of the Abbey (p.371)
- ↑ Vita Eucherii episcopi Aurelianensis MGM Script. rer. mer. VII, 1920 pp.50-51
- ↑ HGH SS rer. Germ. [44]: Nithardi Historiarum p.31
- ↑ MGH Diplomata, Lothar II, p.393.
- ↑ MGH Diplomata, Charles the Bald, p.644.
- ↑ MGH DD Otto I p.210
- ↑ MGH DD Otto I p.235