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- ↑ Jan Dumolyn, Staatsvorming en vorstelijke ambtenaren in het graafschap Vlaanderen, 1419–1477 (Antwerp and Apeldoorn, 2003), pp. 65-67.
- ↑ Gwilym Dodd and Sophie Petit-Renaud, "Grace and Favour: The Petition and its Mechanisms", in Government and Political Life in England and France, c. 1300–c. 1500, edited by Christopher Fletcher, Jean-Philippe Genet and John Watts (Cambridge, 2015), pp. 254-256.