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- ↑ Halfond, Greg (2012). "All the King's Men: Episcopal Political Loyalties in the Merovingian Kingdoms". Medieval Prosopography. 27: 76–96. Retrieved Feb 22, 2021."Although Syagrius was almost certainly a member of one of the most distinguished families of southern Gaul, the Syagrii, a precise genealogy has never been worked out for its numerous members;"