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- ↑ Constance Brittain Bourchard, Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1188, (Cornell University Press, 1987), 345.
- 1 2 3 4 Constance Brittain Bourchard, Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1188, 342.
- ↑ Hugh of Poitiers, The Vézelay Chronicle, transl. John Scott, John O. Ward, (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), 95.
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