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- ↑ See, e.g.: Innes, Cosmo, ed. (1837) [c. 1177–1178]. "Charter of King William granting a tenth of his returns in Moray to the Bishop of Moray". Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club. p. 7.
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Walmsley, John, ed. (2006) [1185]. Widows, Heirs, and Heiresses in the Late Twelfth Century: The Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies series. Vol. 308. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies / State University of New York at Binghamton. p. 126, no. 2197.Margareta de Muntfichet ... Gilebertus de Muntfichet ....
VCH Northampton 3:227-23129, fn. 21 (cites Buccleuch Deeds, ca. 1280s): "Divorgilla daughter of Sir Walter Montfichet (Montefixo)". Ragman Rolls 34 (28 August 1296): "Mufchet, Dauid (del counte de Anegos)". - ↑ Stow, John (1908) [1598–1903]. "Of Towers and Castels". In Kingsford, C. L. (ed.). A Survey of London. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 67–68. Retrieved 16 July 2010. Stow is an important source for the medieval history of London, but wrote in an era before standardisation of spelling; he spells Montfichet as Mountfiquit.
- ↑ "Cavendish". The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America. London: Henry S. King & Co. 1875. pp. 191–193 – via Google Books. Additional related information is found on pp. 165, 187, 341.