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References
- ↑ Settipani, Christian (1990). "Addendum to the Ancestors of Charlemagne" (PDF).
- ↑ Claussen, M. A. (2004). The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula Canonicorum in the Eighth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 21.
