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- ↑ Ian William Stone (2016). The Book of Arnold Fitz Thedmar (PDF) (PhD thesis). King’s College London.
- ↑ 'A.D. 1212. In this year died Henry Fitz-Eylwyne, the first Mayor of London, and Roger Fitz-Alan succeeded him." URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-mayors-sheriffs/1188-1274/pp1-8
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- ↑ "his successor as mayor and probably his nephew." The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004 as quoted in http://nielsenhayden.com/genealogy-tng/getperson.php?personID=I9210&tree=nh1
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- ↑ The Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III – 1912. Originally published by Corporation of the City of London, London, 1908. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-aldermen/hen3-1912/pp362-371#p33
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- ↑ Holt, Garnett & Hudson 2015, p. 213.
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