Footnotes
- The latest figures cover up until the end of 2023
- Michael Davies, Pope John’s Council, (Kansas City, Angelus Press, 2007), 461.
- Many sources misattribute Louis VIII’s actions to his grandfather Louis VII, who died in 1180, forty-six years previously.
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