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- 1 2 Ferrer p. 128
- 1 2 3 Ferrer p. 129
- ↑ Rovira i Virgili p. 290
- ↑ Juan Mariana (1848). Historia general de España (in Spanish). Juan de Mariana. p. 152.
- ↑ Rovira i Virgili p. 292
- ↑ Ferrer p. 127
- 1 2 Jerónimo Zurita. Annals of the Crown of Aragon.
- ↑ Ferrer p. 133-134
- ↑ Jerónimo Zurita. Annals of the Crown of Aragon (PDF) (in Spanish). p. 18.