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- ↑ Page in French, online text in Latin
- ↑ Henry G. J. Beck, "The Selection of Bishops Suffragan to Hincmar of Rheims, 845–882", The Catholic Historical Review, 45, 3 (1959):. 277 n. 9, cites a document showing him as a deacon there in June 845.
- ↑ Janet Nelson, Charles the Bald (London: Longman, 1992), 176.
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