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- ↑ "Haller von Hallerstein, Ruprecht - Deutsche Biographie".
- ↑ Geschlechtsregister des Hochadelichen Patriciats zu Nürnberg: welches aus denen bewährtesten Urkunden, Kauf- Lehen- und Heyrathsbriefen, gesammleten Grabschriften und eingeholten genauen Nachrichten von innen beschriebenen Gräflich-Freyherrlich- und Edlen Häusern in gegenwärtige Ordnung verfasset und richtig zusammen getragen worden
- ↑ erudition, candour of mind and true nobility
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