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Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Hunt, William (1894). "Mohun, William de (fl.1066)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 112.