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- ↑ Ex Chronico Gaufredi Vosiensis §51, in: Recueil des Historien des Gaules et de la France 12 (1867), p. 436.
- ↑ Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi Liber I, Cap. XXXI, ed. by William Stubbs: Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I , in: Rolls Series 38 (1864), Vol. 1, p. 74.
- ↑ Gesta Regis Henrici Secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis, ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 2, p. 148.
- ↑ LE Kastner: Notes on the Poems of Bertran de Born, in: The Modern Language Review Vol. 27 (1932), p. 410.