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- ↑ Emanuel van Meteren (1663). Historien der Nederlanden en haar naburen tot het jaar 1612[History of the Netherlands and its neighbours up to the year 1612]. Amsterdam. pp. 445–446.
- ↑ Tom Meijers. "Mysterieuze Margaretha: een vrouwsoldaat in manskleren" [Mysterious Margaretha: a female soldier in man's clothes]. De Verhalen van Groningen.
- ↑ "Margaretha". Digital Women's Lexicon of the Netherlands.
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