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References
- Barker, Juliet R. V. (2010). Conquest : the English kingdom of France in the Hundred Years War . London: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-12202-1.
- Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 348–349.