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- ↑ G. W. S. Barrow, 'Stewart family (per. c.1110–c.1350)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ↑ Anderson (1867) vol.ix, p. 512
- ↑ Simpson, David, The Genealogical and Chronological History of the Stuarts, 1713, p. 38
- ↑ Burke, Messrs., John and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales &c., volume 2, London, 1851, pps: xl and xli
- ↑ Nisbet, Alexander, A System of Heraldry volume 1, Edinburgh 1722, facsimile 1984, part 1, p. 43,
- ↑ Clay, John W., FSA., editor, The Visitation of Cambridge, 1575 and 1619 by Henery St.George, Richmond Herald, Harleian Society, London, 1897, pps: 7 - 11.
