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- ↑ Matthews, Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, AD 364-425 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), p. 361
- ↑ Raymond Davis, translator, The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis) (Liverpool: University Press, 1989), p. 57
- ↑ Jeffrey Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages (London:Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), p. 241
- ↑ Settipani, Christian. Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale (2000), p. 161
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