The Life and Times of Alfred the Great / Being the Ford lectures for 1901

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Abel, see Elias.
‘aedificia,’ special meaning of, in Asser, 46, 47.
Ælfheah, bishop of Winchester (934-51), 56 n.
Ælfheah, bishop of Winchester, and archbishop of Canterbury, St. Neot said to have been a friend of (!), 56.
Ælfric, the homilist, not the author of the Anglo-Saxon life of St. Neot, 55, 56 n.;
his views on the state of English learning, 82 n.;
cites the Anglo-Saxon Bede as Alfred’s, but not the Dialogues, 167.
Æthelbald, king of the Mercians, 14.
Æthelbald, king of the West Saxons, 39 n.;
matter relating to, in Asser, 14;
alleged rebellion of, 16, 76 n., 78, 79, 91;
alleged incestuous marriage of, 17, 52, 76 n., 80, 87;
governs Wessex in his father’s absence, 75, 79;
obscurity of his reign, 86, 87;
his death, 86;
his share of his father’s property, 90, 91.
Æthelberht, king of Kent, father of Eadbald, 80.
Æthelberht, king of the West Saxons, 39 n.;
made under-king of Kent, 73-5, 79, 86;
retains Kent on his succession to Wessex, 86;
his struggle against the Danes, 79, 87;
his death, 88;
Alfred’s succession possibly arranged under, 89 n.;
his share in his father’s property, 90, 91.
Æthelflæd, lady of the Mercians, daughter of Alfred, and wife of Æthelred of Mercia, 35;
translates St. Oswald’s body to Gloucester, 35;
fortifies Worcester, 111;
attends the conference of Chelsea, 111;
military policy of, 111.
Æthelhelm, ealdorman of Wilts., co-operates against the Danes, 116.
Æthelnoth, ealdorman of Somerset, services of, against the Danes, 106, 116;
attacks the Danes at York, 117 n.
Æthelred, king of the West Saxons, 39 n.;
matter relating to, in Asser, 14;
his conduct at Ashdown, 16, 93, 94;
Alfred secundarius under, 40, 88-91;
confused with Alfred, and with Aldfrid, 65;
abstains from claiming Kent, 75, 86;
succeeds Æthelberht, 88;
relations of Alfred with, 88;
Burgred asks help of, 88;
marches to Nottingham, 88;
appoints Æthelred to Canterbury, 88 n.;
his share of his father’s property, 90, 91;
his children, 91;
campaign of, against the Danes, 92-5;
his death, 92, 95;
his character, 95, 96;
interred at Wimborne, 98;
regarded as a martyr, 98 n.
Æthelred, archbishop of Canterbury, 127;
appointed by Æthelred and Alfred jointly, 88 n.;
letter of John VIII to, 127;
said to have advised the summoning of Grimbald, 138.
Æthelred, ealdorman of the Mercians, Witenagemóts held by, 13, 14;
husband of Æthelflæd, 35;
translates St. Oswald’s body to Gloucester, 35;
his pressure on the Welsh, 42;
his semi-royal position, 42;
London entrusted to, 109;
fortifies Worcester, 111;
attends the conference of Chelsea, 111;
acts as sponsor to one of Hæsten’s sons, 113;
co-operates with Edward, Æthelnoth, and Æthelhelm against the Danes, 115-6.
Æthelred II, king of the English, Edgar’s reign regarded as a golden age under, 67.
Æthelweard, son of Alfred, said to have studied at Oxford, 63.
Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester, St. Neot said to have been a friend of (!), 56.
Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, 39 n.;
Athelstan, king of Kent, probably brother of, 6 n.;
said to have been in holy orders before his accession, 7;
matter relating to, in Asser, 14;
Burgred of Mercia asks help of, 85, 88;
his second marriage with Judith, 17, 78, 80 n.;
stays at the Court of Charles the Bald, 17, 76, 78;
has a Frankish secretary, 17, 18;
Lupus of Ferrières corresponds with, 18 n., 71 n.;
his liberality, 18 n., 71 n.;
reduces Wales under Burgred, 37, 85;
has a shrine made for relics of St. Aldhelm, 47;
his will, 86, 90, 91, 126;
St. Neot made son of, 6, 55, 57;
letter of Leo IV to, 70, 72;
his visit to Rome, 74-6, 84, 86;
letter of, to Louis the Pious, 74;
divides his dominions, 75, 86;
restores the Schola Saxonum, 76;
his return to England, 78;
alleged rebellion against, see Æthelbald;
his death, 79, 84;
character of his reign, 85;
compared with Louis the Pious, 79, 80;
did not divorce Osburh, 84;
made under-king of Kent by Egbert, 85;
Ealhswith, daughter of, 88;
naval engagement under, 120.
Æthelwulf, ealdorman of Berkshire, defeats Danes at Englefield, 93;
slain, 93.
Alamanni, Charles the Fat, king of, 41.
Alcuin, letter of, to Offa, 136;
services of, to Frankish education, 137.
Aldfrid, king of the Northumbrians, confused with Æthelred, 65.
Aldhelm, St., bishop of Sherborne, Æthelwulf has a shrine made for the relics of, 47;
Alfred’s admiration for the Saxon poems of, 141.
Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons, uncritical statements relating to, 5-9;
not the inventor of shires, 6, cf. 121;
or of chapter-headings, 7;
not brother of St. Neot, 6, 56, 57;
probably nephew of Athelstan, king of Kent, 6;
historical authorities for reign of, 10-68;
laws of, 121-6;
preface to, 11;
relation of, to Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 11, 146-7, 173;
reticence of Chronicle as to, 11, 12;
panegyrics of Ethelwerd and Florence on, 12, 197-8;
not fully appreciated in his own day, 13;
his reign poor in charters, 13;
and in saints’ lives, 53;
will of, 14, 90-1, 126;
life of, by Asser, see Asser;
skill of, in hunting, 16, 81, 83;
book of prayers, &c., always carried by, 16, 140;
Eadburh, maternal grandmother of, 16;
mysterious illness of, 16, 25-8, 215;
corresponds with Elias III, patriarch of Jerusalem, 16, 33, 34, 132;
educates a young Dane at Athelney, 16;
relates the story of Eadburh, 16;
imports Grimbald and John the Old Saxon from the Continent, 17, 137;
question of grant of Exeter to Asser by, 18-20, 215;
recovers Exeter from the Danes, 19, 101-2;
Asser enters service of, 19, 36-7, 42, 137;
his protection desired for St. Davids, 19, 42;
Welsh princes commend themselves to, 20, 36, 42, 43;
sends to Asser, 21;
born at Wantage, 22, 70;
legends relating to, 24, 56-9, 62-8, 73 n.;
foreign relations of, 33, 131-5;
his fondness for Saxon poems, 38, 82, 83;
called ‘king of the Anglo-Saxons’ in Asser, 39;
part of Mercia acquired by, 39;
power of, exaggerated by later writers, 39, 129 n.;
occupation of London by, 39, 40;
his title of ‘secundarius,’ 40, 88-91;
Anaraut of N. Wales submits and becomes godson to, 42;
his interest in craftsmanship, 46, 47, 130-1;
ideal description of Court of, in Asser, 53, 130;
Danes try to seize, at Chippenham, 59, 102, 162;
withdrawal of, to Athelney, 57-9, 102;
confused with Æthelred, 65;
said to have sent alms to Jerusalem, 65;
false pedigree of, 65;
his alleged division of his time and revenues, 65 n., 130;
his fame obscured by Edgar, 67, 129;
date of birth of, 69, 70;
taken to Rome in 853, 70;
again in 855, 75, 76;
his confirmation and unction by Leo IV, 71-4, 76;
story of his learning to read, 81-4;
abstains from claiming Kent, 75, 86, 89;
relations of, with Æthelred, 88;
marches to Nottingham, 88;
joins in appointing Æthelred to Canterbury, 88 n.;
marriage of, 91;
his year of battles, 92-5;
his accession and his task, 95-7;
question of his election, 91 n., 97-8;
his unwillingness to assume power, 97;
sends alms and missions to Rome, 12, 99, 134-5;
and India, 99, 134;
success of, against the Danes at London, 99, 100;
against a Danish fleet, 100;
fortifies Athelney, 102;
his successful campaign of Edington, 102-5, cf. 149, 162;
Guthrum submits and becomes godson to, 103;
importance of his victory, 105;
causes of success of, 105-7;
relieves Rochester, 107, 108;
sends a fleet against the East Anglian Danes, 64, 108;
gains possession of London, 108, 109;
the second founder of London, 109;
military reforms of, 110-2, 121;
holds a conference at Chelsea, 111;
exacts oaths from the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes, 113;
watches and negotiates with the Danes in Kent, 113, cf. 163;
acts as sponsor to one of Hæsten’s sons, 113;
relieves Exeter, 114-5;
restores Hæsten’s wife and sons, 115;
watches, and blockades the Danes on the Lea, 118;
his new ships, 118, 119;
his claim to be the founder of the English navy, 119, 120, cf. 163;
his administration of justice, 124-6;
relations of, to the Witenagemót, 126-7;
to the Church, 127-8;
attempts to revive monasticism, 128-9;
provides for foundation of the New Minster, Winchester, 129;
liberality of, to foreign monasteries, 129;
three ‘Scots’ come to, 131;
educational measures of, 135-40;
writes the Preface to the translation of Gregory’s Dialogues, 142-3;
character of his religious thought, 143-5;
body of scribes maintained by, 146 n.;
said to have translated part of the Psalter, 147-9;
and the whole of the Bible, 150-1;
other works ascribed to, 151;
his intercourse with strangers, 160;
called ‘England’s darling,’ 161, 210;
his fondness for similes, 182-3;
chronology of his literary works, 137-8, 196;
invests his grandson Athelstan, 196;
death of, 11, 197-8;
buried at Winchester, 198;
lessons of life of, 198-200;
Henry VI applies for canonisation of, 199 n.;
comparison of, with other sovereigns, 200-2, 210;
no deductions to be made from fame of, 202-3;
his translations valuable as authorities, 10, 11, 155, 164, 174, 181-5;
their educational purpose, 139, 140, 165;
their origin, 140;
the Handbook, 140-1.
See Augustine, Bede, Boethius, Gregory, Orosius.
Alfred Jewel, the, 7, 47.
Aller, Somerset, Guthrum baptised at, 103.
Amazons, organisation of, 110, 163.
Anaraut, son of Rotri Mawr, king of N. Wales, submits to Alfred and becomes his godson, 42, 71.
Anglia, use of term in Book of Llandaff, 39 n.
Anglo-Saxons, Alfred called ‘king’ of, 39.
Annals of Asser, or St. Neot, see Neot, St.
Appledore, Kent, Danes entrench themselves at, 112.
Aquitaine, kings of, see Carloman, Louis the Pious.
Arnulf, Emperor, deposes Charles the Fat, 17, 41 n.;
king of the Eastern Kingdom, 41 n.;
defeats the Danes on the Dyle, 112.
Arthur, King, Alfred compared with, 104, 210.
Ashdown, Berks., solitary thorn marks the site of, 16, 94;
battle of, and Æthelred’s conduct at, 16, 93, 94.
Asser, bishop of Sherborne, 20, 127;
said to have brought Grimbald to England, 18, 139;
question of his appointment as bishop at Exeter, 18-20;
his reason for entering Alfred’s service, 19, 36;
date of his consecration as bishop uncertain, 19, 20;
called bishop of St. Davids, 20;
mentioned in the Preface to the Pastoral Care, 20, 52, 138, 143 n.;
question of his illness, 21;
returns to St. Davids, 21;
Alfred sends to, 21;
his agreement with Alfred, 37, 137;
expelled from St. Davids by Hemeid, 42;
suggests the composition of the Handbook, 140;
said to have helped Alfred with the Boethius translation, 188-9.
Asser, life of Alfred attributed to, its composite character, 14, 15;
relation of Simeon of Durham to, 23, 31, 32, 34, 64;
relation of, to Chronicle, 14, 48-51, 93 n.;
relation of Florence to, 15, 22, 23, 25, 28, 34, 49, 60, 64;
excessive self-assertion off, 15-17;
Frankish element in, 17, 18;
date of, 19, 29-33, 51, 52;
corruption of text of, 21-30;
MSS. of, 22, 32, 33;
Wise’s edition of, 22;
relation of Annals of Asser to, 22;
emendation of text of, 33-5;
Celtic characteristics of, 35-42;
knowledge of South Welsh affairs shown in, 35, 42-4;
does not exaggerate Alfred’s position, 39;
terminology of, in regard to the Carolingian Empire, 40, 41;
probably the work of a single hand, 44-8;
curious meaning of ‘aedificia’ in, 46, 47;
style of, 47, 48;
abrupt termination of, 51, 52;
probably genuine, but to be used with caution, 52, 214;
idealised description of Alfred’s Court in, 53, 130;
used by William of Malmesbury, 62.
Asser, Annals of, see Neot, St.
Athelney, Somerset, unapproachable position of, 35;
Alfred’s withdrawal to, 57-9, 102, 105, 106;
Alfred fortifies, 102;
Alfred moves out of, 102, cf. 162;
monastery of, founded by Alfred, 68, 128;
disorders in, 129, 137;
young Dane educated by Alfred in, 16;
abbot of, see John the Old Saxon.
Athelstan, under-king of Kent, 73;
not identical with St. Neot, 6;
probably Alfred’s uncle, 6;
fights a naval battle, 120 n.
Athelstan, Mercian priest, chaplain to Alfred, 136.
Athelstan, bishop of Hereford, 137 n.
Athelstan, king of the West Saxons, panegyrics on, in Chronicle and Laws, 12;
William of Malmesbury’s special sources for reign of, 62;
investiture of, by Alfred, 196.
Augustine, St., bishop of Hippo, his Soliloquies, 194;
Alfred’s translation of, 10, 11, 128, 191-6;
relation of, to the Boethius translation, 194-5;
not identical with Alfred’s Handbook, 141, 192;
his De Ciuitate Dei, 157;
used by Alfred, 191;
a favourite book with Charles the Great, 191-2;
his De Videndo Deo, used by Alfred, 191.
Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury, complaints of, in regard to Welsh baptisms, 42.
Bardney, Lincs, St. Oswald’s body removed from, 35.
Basing, Hants, battle of, 93, 95.
Bede, the Venerable, his Eccl. Hist., 8, 157;
style of, influenced by Gregory’s Dialogues, 170 n.;
his bitterness on the Easter Controversy, 173;
Anglo-Saxon translation of, 8, 166-75;
relation of, to the Orosius translation, 156-9;
to the translation of the Dialogues, 169, 170.
Bel, see Elias.
Benfleet, Essex, Danes fortify themselves at, 113-4;
captured by the English, 115.
Beorhtric, king of the West Saxons, 39 n.;
Eadburh, wife of, 16, 17;
dies, 802, 17 n.
Beornred, king of the Mercians, annexes monastic property, 66.
Bergues, dép. Nord, France, St. Winnoc’s body translated to, 35.
Berhtwulf, king of the Mercians, 109.
Berkshire, ealdorman of, see Æthelwulf.
Bernard, Frankish monk, pilgrimage of, to Jerusalem, 132-4.
Bernard of Morlaix, his rhythm De Contemptu Mundi, 178 n.
Berry, Jehan, duc de, former owner of the Latin-Saxon psalter, 148.
Birinus, bishop of the West Saxons, baptises Cuthred of Wessex, 72.
Boccaccio, his treatise De Casibus illustrium uirorum, 178 n.
Boethius, his treatment by Theodoric, 178-9;
his Christianity superficial, 180;
his De Consolatione Philosophiae, 8, 177-80;
Alfred’s translation of, 8, 10, 135, 177, 180-5;
its relation to the Orosius translation, 159;
to the Soliloquies, 194-5;
wrongly assigned to Werferth, 185 n.;
mentioned by Ethelwerd, 185;
question as to Alfred’s authorship of the verse translation of the Metra in, 185-91, 194 n.
Boniface, St., the apostle of Germany, 137.
Boulogne, dép. Pas-de-Calais, Danes embark at, 112.
Brecheiniog, South Welsh kingdom, nearly identical with Brecknockshire; kings of, see Helised, Teudyr.
Bridgenorth, Shropshire, Danes winter at, 118.
Bristol Channel, not a barrier between the Welsh and Cornishmen, 19;
ravaged by Danes, 103.
Britannia, ambiguous use of term by Asser, 36, 37.
Brixton Deverill, Wilts., Alfred musters his forces at, 102.
Brochmail, son of Mouric, joint king of Gwent, submits to Alfred, 42, 44.
Burgred, king of the Mercians, grants land to Cered, 13;
Æthelwulf reduces Wales under, 37, 85, 88;
brother-in-law of Alfred, 53, 88;
asks help of Æthelred and Alfred, 88;
expelled by Danes, 53, 100;
dies at Rome, 98 n., 100, cf. 199;
reason for his failure to help Wessex, 99;
imposes taxes to buy off the Danes, 100.
Burgs, construction of, by Alfred, 110, 111.
Burgundy, king of, see Carloman;
count of Upper, see Rudolf.
Buttington, Montgomery, Danes blockaded at, 116.
Cambridge, Danes winter at, 100.
Camden, William, his connexion with the Oxford interpolation in Asser, 24.
Canterbury, archbishops of, see Ælfheah, Æthelred, Augustine, Dunstan, Parker, Matthew, Plegmund.
Canute, king of England, called ‘king of Germania,’ 41;
reconciled with the English at Oxford, 67;
one of the creators of England’s greatness, 200 n.
Carl, see Carloman.
Carloman, king of Aquitaine and Burgundy, name correct in Asser, 17;
called ‘Carl’ in Chron., 17;
called ‘king of the Western Franks’ in Asser, 40, 41.
Ceolwulf, king of the Mercians, set up by the Danes, 66, 88, 100;
exactions of, 66;
stripped of part of Mercia, 102.
Cered, receives land from Burgred of Mercia, 13;
Werthryth, widow of, 13;
Cuthwulf, kinsman of, 13.
Charles the Great, Emperor, Eadburh offends, 17;
Liutgarde, wife of, 17 n.;
Pippin and Charles, sons of, 17;
his fondness for ancient poetry, 38 n.;
begins a Frankish grammar, 38 n.;
called ‘king of the Franks’ by Asser, 40;
crowns Louis the Pious, 80 n.;
divides his dominions, 85;
Frisians serve in navy of, 120 n.;
his administration of justice, 125;
his legislation, 126 n.;
his liberality to foreign Christians, 129 n.;
king of Persia sends a clock to, 131 n.;
relations of, with Irish princes, 131 n.;
Pippin, father of, 131;
founds a hospice and library at Jerusalem, 133;
Court school of, 135;
his intercourse with strangers, 160;
his fondness for the De Ciuitate Dei, 191-2;
comparison of, with Alfred, 200-1;
Einhard’s life of, see Einhard.
Charles, son of Charles the Great, unmarried, 17 n.
Charles the Bald, king of the Franks, 40;
receives Æthelwulf, 17, 76, 78;
Judith, daughter of, 78;
character of, 78;
investiture of, by Louis the Pious, 196 n.
Charles the Fat, king of the Franks, 40;
deposed by Arnulf, 17, 41 n.;
called ‘king of the Alamanni,’ 41;
grants West Friesland to Guthfrith, 120 n.
Charters, fewness of, belonging to Alfred’s reign, 13;
destruction of, by Danes, 13;
Frankish elements in, 18.
Chaucer, his Monk’s Tale founded on Boccaccio, 178 n.
Chelsea, Middlesex, conference at, 111.
Chester, Danes fortify themselves at, but evacuate, 117.
Chichester, Sussex, abortive Danish attack on, 117.
Chippenham, Wilts., Danes try to seize Alfred at, 59, 61, 102, 162;
captured by Alfred, 103.
Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon, relation of Alfred to, 11, 145-6;
value of, for reign of Alfred, 11-13;
reticence of, as to Alfred, 12, 13;
relation of, to Asser, 14, 48-51, 93 n.;
to Ethelwerd, 51 n., 60;
to Henry of Huntingdon, 60, 61;
to William of Malmesbury, 62;
to Anglo-Saxon translation of Orosius, 146, 157-8;
chronological error in, 50, 104 n., 108, 110, 112.
Cirencester, Glouc., Danes retire to, 104.
Clovis, king of the Franks, receives consular insignia from Constantinople, 72, 73.
Colne, R., Herts, Danes blockaded on, 114-5.
Constantinople, Clovis receives consular insignia from, 72.
Copenhagen, bombardment of, by Nelson, 163.
Cornwall, episcopal supervision of, 18-20;
kings of, 19 (see Dumgarth);
St. Guerier and St. Neot buried in, 26;
not included in Saxonia, 38;
St. Neot settles in, 56.
Corvey, Westphalia, John the Old Saxon, a monk of, 137.
Croyland, Lincs, monastery of, 66, 67;
abbot of, see Ingulf;
monk of, see Tolius.
Cuthbert, St., part played by, in the legends of Alfred, 62.
Cuthred, joint king of the West Saxons, baptised by Birinus, 72.
Cuthwulf, kinsman of Cered, 13;
buys land of Cered’s widow, Werthryth, 13;
charter granted to, 13.
Cynwit, Devon, fort of, surveyed by Asser, 16;
besieged by the Danes, 44;
Danes defeated at, 104.
Danes, generic name for Scandinavian invaders, 87 n.;
movements of, 12, 49, 75, 87, 88, 92-5, 98-104, 107, 108, 112-8;
destruction of documents by, 13;
division of Mercia by, 24;
Celts take part with, 43, 99;
in Northumbria, 42;
winter in Dyfed, and besiege Cynwit, 44, 51;
monasteries ravaged by, 53, 66, 127, 129;
Burgred expelled by, 53, 100;
try to surprise Alfred at Chippenham, 57-9, 61;
young Dane educated by Alfred at Athelney, 16;
ravages of, 66, 77, 87 n., 121, 127, 129, 136, 138;
winter in England, 74, 87;
mobility of, 106, 107.
Dante, his use of Boethius, 179;
his theory of the Empire, 208-9.
Danubium, see Denmark.
David, comparison of Alfred with, 149.
Denmark, called ‘Danubium’ by Asser, 41;
Canute, king of, 41.
Devon, men of, resist the Danes, 103, 104;
ealdorman of, see Odda.
Driffield, Yorks., Aldfrid of Northumbria dies at, 65.
Dubslane, one of three ‘Scots’ who came to Alfred, 131.
Duisburg, on the Rhine, Danes winter at, 40.
Dumgarth, king of Cornwall, drowned in 875, 19.
Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, St. Neot said to have been a monk under (!), 56.
Durham, Simeon of, see Simeon.
Dyfed, South Welsh kingdom, including Pembrokeshire and part of Carmarthenshire, Danes winter in, 44, 51, 103;
king of, see Hemeid.
Dyle, R., Belgium, Arnulf defeats the Danes on, 112.
Eadbald, king of Kent, his incestuous marriage, 80.
Eadburh, Alfred’s maternal grandmother, often seen by Asser, 16.
Eadburh, daughter of Offa, and wife of Beorhtric of Wessex, her crimes, and subsequent misfortunes, 16, 17, 79 n.;
offends Charles the Great, 17.
Eafa, of Wessex, confused with Offa of Mercia, 66.
Ealhswith, daughter of Æthelwulf, and wife of Burgred of Mercia, 88.
Eanwulf, ealdorman of Somerset, alleged rebellion of, against Æthelwulf, 78, 79.
East Anglia, not included in Saxonia, 38;
Alfred sends fleet to, 64, 108;
relation of, to Wessex, 85;
occupied and conquered by the Danes, 87, 88, 92, 105;
Danes retire to, 104;
Danes of, rebel and are punished, 108, 109;
Alfred exacts oaths and hostages from, 113;
share of, in the campaigns of 893 ff., 113-5, 117-8;
kings of, see Edmund, Guthrum, Sigbert.
Ecgbryhtesstan, identifications of, 102 n.
Edgar, king of the West Saxons, panegyrics on, in Chronicle and Laws, 12;
eclipses the fame of Alfred, 67, 129;
English and Danes reconciled on basis of law of, 67;
made a Confessor, 67;
called ‘darling of the English,’ 161 n.
Edington, Wilts., battle of, 57, 61, 102, 103, 162.
Edmund, St., king of the East Angles, martyred by the Danes, 88.
Edmund, king of the West Saxons, panegyrics on, in Chronicle and Laws, 12.
Edward, king of the West Saxons, son of Alfred, 96 n., 196;
called ‘the Great,’ 96 n.;
military policy of, 111;
defeats the Danes at Farnham, 114;
blockades them on the Colne, 114-5;
captures Benfleet, 115;
document addressed to, 125-6;
carries out Alfred’s foundation of the New Minster, 129 n.
Edward the Confessor, king of England, transference of See of Devon and Cornwall to Exeter by, 18, 19.
Edward I, king of England, comparison of, with Alfred, 200-2;
bases the constitution on popular representation, 210;
one of the creators of England’s greatness, 200 n.
Egbert, king of the West Saxons, Celts under, take part with the Danes, 43;
advance of Wessex under, 85;
reduces the Welsh, 85;
makes Æthelwulf king of Kent, 85;
his dominions divided at his death, 86;
his sojourn on the Continent, 86;
union of England under, 210.
Egbert, king of part of Northumbria, set up by the Danes, 88.
Einhard, his life of Charles the Great modelled on Suetonius’ life of Augustus, 10.
Elfred, see Æthelred.
Elias III, patriarch of Jerusalem, Alfred corresponds with, 16, 33, 34, 132;
miscalled Abel, and Bel, 33-4.
Elised, see Helised.
Elizabeth, queen of England, ecclesiastical policy of, 211.
Ely, Cambridgeshire, Hereward’s defence of, 59.
England, English, kings of, see Æthelred II, Canute, Edward the Confessor, Edward I, George III, Henry II, Henry VI, Henry VIII, John, Richard I, William I;
queens of, see Elizabeth, Victoria.
Englefield, near Reading, Berks., Danes defeated at, 93.
Essex ceded to the Danes, 105.
Ethandun, identifications of, 102-3 n.
Ethelwerd, the Chronicler, corruption of text of, 21, 60;
terminology of, 37 n.;
relation of, to the Chron., 51 n., 60;
obscurity of, 60;
his panegyric on Alfred, 12, 198;
exaggerates Alfred’s position, 63 n.;
mentions Alfred’s Boethius, 185.
Eugenius IV, Pope, Henry VI applies to, for Alfred’s canonisation, 199 n.
Exe. R., Devon, Alfred blockades mouth of, 101.
Exeter, Devon, question of grant to Asser of See at, 18-20;
transference of bishopric to, under Edward the Conf., 18-20;
Danes steal away to, 49, 107;
Danes occupy, 101;
recovered from the Danes by Alfred, 19, 102;
besieged by the Danes, but relieved by Alfred, 115, cf. 117.
Faremoûtier-en-Brie (Fara), Lupus and Felix at monastery of, 18 n.
Farnham, Surrey, Edward defeats the Danes at, 114.
Felix, Frankish secretary of Æthelwulf, Lupus of Ferrières corresponds with, 17, 18 n.;
previously at Faremoûtier, 17, 18 n.
Fernmail, son of Mouric, joint king of Gwent, submits to Alfred, 42, 44.
Ferrières, dép. Loiret, abbot of, see Lupus.
Florence of Worcester, relation of, to Asser, 15, 22, 23, 25, 28, 34, 49, 60, 64;
his panegyric on Alfred, 12, 60, 197.
France, king of, see Louis, St.
Francia, term applied to the Carolingian Empire, 41.
Frankish element in Asser, 17, 18.
Franks, kings of, see Carloman, Charles the Great, Charles the Bald, Charles the Fat, Clovis, Louis the Stammerer, Louis of Northern France;
Felix, a Frank, 18 n.
Frisia, wiking settlements in, 119, 120.
Frisians, serve in Alfred’s navy, 119;
and in that of Charles the Great, 120 n.;
language of, akin to English, 119 n.;
settle in England, 120.
Fulham, Middlesex, Danes evacuate, 104.
Fulk, abp. of Rheims, letter of, to Abp. Plegmund, 128;
doubtful letter of, to Alfred, 138-9;
abbot of St. Bertin’s, 137-8;
murder of, 138 n.
Fyrd, the native militia of the English, reorganised by Alfred, 110.
Galli, term applied to inhabitants of the Western Kingdom, 41.
Gallia, term applied to the Western Kingdom, 41.
George III, king of England, influence of character of, 211.
Germania, name given by Welsh writers to Norway, 40, 41;
Bede’s and Alfred’s uses of the term, 40 n., 160.
Glastonbury, Somerset, St. Neot said to have been a monk at, 56;
Alfred gives fragment of the True Cross to, 58 n.
Glewissig, South Welsh kingdom, including the district between lower Usk and Towy, 44;
king of, see Howel.
Gloucester, Mercian Witenagemót held at, 13;
St. Oswald’s body translated to, 35.
Gregory the Great, Pope, soul of Trajan granted to prayers of, 209;
his Moralia used by Alfred, 191;
his Dialogues, 8, 143-4;
used by Alfred in the ‘Blostman,’ 143-4;
Bede’s style influenced by, 170 n.;
Anglo-Saxon translation of, 8, 141, 171;
two recensions of, 145-6, 169;
mentioned in Asser, 52, 141;
cited by Ælfric, 167;
ascribed to Werferth, 142, 169;
Alfred writes the preface to, 142-3;
relation of, to Bede translation, 169, 170;
his Pastoral Care, 8, 151-2;
cited in Asser, 52;
Alfred’s translation of, 8, 10, 152-5;
Preface to, 11, 20, 52, 136, 139, 140, 143, 193, 196, 199.
Grimbald, a monk of St. Bertin’s, 137;
brought to England by Alfred, 17, 137;
said to have been escorted to England by Asser, 18, 139;
chronology of his life, 137-8;
letter of Fulk of Rheims respecting, 138-9;
made abbot of the New Minster, 139;
dies, 139;
helps Alfred with the Pastoral Care, 137, 143 n.
Gualia, Wales, use of term, 37 n.
Guerier, St., alleged visit of Alfred to shrine of, in Cornwall, 26, 29.
Guthfrith, wiking chief, receives a grant of West Friesland, 120 n.
Guthrum, Danish king of East Anglia, invasion of, 57-9;
his submission and baptism, 42, 46, 68, 71, 103;
death of, 109, 110.
Gwent, South Welsh kingdom, including parts of Monmouthshire and Herefordshire, kings of, see Brochmail, Fernmail, Mouric.
Hadrian I, Pope, crowns Louis the Pious as king of Aquitaine, 74.
Hæsten, Danish chief, his military movements, and treacherous negotiations, 113, 115.
Halfdene, Danish chief, 104.
Hampshire, men of, rally to Alfred, 102.
Harold Hardrada, king of Norway, called king of Germania, 41.
Heahmund, bishop of Sherborne, killed at Marton, 92.
Helised ap Teudyr, king of Brecheiniog, submits to Alfred, 42, 44.
Hemeid, king of Dyfed, commends himself to Alfred, 20, 42;
persecutes St. Davids, 42;
dies, 43.
Henry de Ferrers, owns Ashdown Manor in Domesday, 94.
Henry II, king of England, character of, by Stubbs, 2;
comparison of, with Alfred, 200;
English administrative system due to, 210.
Henry VI, king of England, applies to the Pope for Alfred’s canonisation, 199 n.
Henry of Huntingdon, his mistakes, 7;
relation of, to Chron., 60, 61;
his treatise De Contemptu Mundi, 178 n.
Henry VIII, king of England, ecclesiastical policy of, 211.
Hereford, bishop of, see Athelstan.
Hereward, his defence of the isle of Ely, 59 n.
Hierosolyma, see Jerusalem.
Howel, son of Rhys, king of Glewissig, dies at Rome in 885, 19, 44;
his crime, 19, 44;
submits to Alfred, 42.
Hubert, St., forged pedigree of, 57.
Huntingdonshire, translation of St. Neot’s relics to, 29.
Iglea, identifications of, 102 n.
India, Alfred sends alms to, 65, 66, 99, 134;
first recorded instance of relations between England and, 134.
Ingulf, abbot of Croyland, Chronicle of, a forgery, but contains genuine traditions, 66, 99.
Ingwar, Danish chief, 104.
Ireland, Alfred said to have been sent to, 62;
a good country for hunting, 83 n.;
relations of Alfred with, 129, 131-2;
love of pilgrimage in Church of, 131-2;
relations of Charles the Great with, 131 n.
Jacopone, his poem De Contemptu Mundi, 178.
Jehan de Meun, two French translations of Boethius’ Consolatio ascribed to, 190.
Jerusalem, Alfred said to have sent alms to, 65;
three ‘Scots’ go to, 132;
account of pilgrimages to, 132-4;
Charles the Great founds a hospice and library at, 133;
patriarchs of, see Elias, Theodosius.
Joan of Arc, Alfred compared with, 107.
John, king of England, character of, by Stubbs, 2.
John the Old Saxon, abbot of Athelney, 66 n., 137;
John Scotus Erigena confused with, 7;
military skill of, 16, 66 n.;
brought to England by Alfred, 17, 137;
two of his monks try to murder, 129, 137;
helps Alfred with the Pastoral Care, 138, 143 n.
John VIII, Pope, letter of, to Abp. Æthelred, 127-8.
John Scotus Erigena, commonly confused with John the Old Saxon, 7.
Joinville, his biography of St. Louis, 202.
Judith, second wife of Louis the Pious, 80.
Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, marriage with Æthelwulf, 17, 78, 80 n.;
alleged marriage with Æthelbald, 17, 52, 76 n., 80.
Kenny Castle, see Cynwit.
Kent, kings of, see Æthelberht, Eadbald;
under-kings of, see Æthelberht, Æthelwulf, Athelstan;
was Alfred ever under-king of? 74;
makes a separate agreement with the Danes, 87.
Langtoft, confusions of, 65.
Latin, the sole vehicle of Western mediaeval culture, 81, 82, 136;
decline of, in England, 82, 139, 140;
influence of, on early vernacular prose, 171.
Law, character of Anglo-Saxon, 121-2.
Lea, R., Danes fortify themselves on, but are forced to retire from, 117-8.
Leicester, confused with Chester, 9 n.;
bishop of, see Werebert.
Leigh, near Westbury, Wilts., Alfred advances to, 102.
Leo IV, Pope, letter of, to Æthelwulf, 70, 72;
confirms and anoints Alfred, 71-4, 76;
fortifies the Leonine suburb, 77;
his death, 76.
Liutgarde, wife of Charles the Great, dies 800, 17 n.
Llandaff, Book of, cited, 37, 39 n., 43, 44.
Llunwerth, bishop of St. Davids, succeeds Nobis, 20, 44.
Llwmbert, see Llunwerth.
London, captured by the Danes in 851, 109;
Danes winter at, 99, 100, 109;
retain possession of, under treaty of Wedmore, 105, 109;
acquired by Alfred, 108, 109;
Alfred the second founder of, 109;
committed to the care of ealdorman Æthelred, 109;
conference on fortifications of, 111;
reinforcements raised from, 115;
captured Danish ships brought to, 115;
garrison of, fail to storm Danish lines, 117.
Long Dean, Wilts., Witenagemót held at, 126.
Lothair I, Emperor, assists Leo IV to fortify the papal suburb, 77.
Louis the Pious, Emperor, refuses to read the old heathen poems, 38 n.;
crowned king of Aquitaine, at the age of three, 74;
letter of Æthelwulf to, 74;
his sons rebel against, 79;
compared with Æthelwulf, 79;
crowned by Charles the Great, 80 n.;
investiture of Charles the Bald by, 196 n.
Louis the Stammerer, king of the Franks, 40.
Louis, king of Northern France, called king of the Franks, 40.
Louis, St., king of France, comparison of, with Titus, 161 n.;
with Alfred, 200, 202.
Lupus, abbot of Ferrières, corresponds with Æthelwulf and Felix, 17, 18 n., 71 n.;
previously at Faremoûtier, 18 n.
Lymne, R., Kent, Danes enter mouth of, 112.
Macbeth, one of three ‘Scots’ who come to Alfred, 131.
Maelduin, the Voyage of, 132.
Maelinmain, one of three ‘Scots’ who came to Alfred, 131.
Malmesbury, Wilts., William of, see William.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, comparison of, with Alfred, 200.
Marinus, Pope, St. Neot said to have visited, 56-8;
grants privileges to English School at Rome, 58;
said to have sent a fragment of the True Cross to Alfred, 58.
Martia, legendary British Queen, 63.
Marton, Wilts., battle of, 92, 93, 95.
Mercia, Witenagemóts of, 13, 14;
division of, by the Danes, 24, 102;
not included in Saxonia, 38;
Alfred acquires part of, 39;
relation of, to Wessex, 85;
Danes invade, 88, 99, 100;
Welsh invade, 99;
western part of, cleared of the Danes, 104;
shire system introduced into, 121;
supplies Alfred with teachers, 136, cf. 139 n., 169;
kings of, see Æthelbald, Beornred, Berhtwulf, Burgred, Ceolwulf, Offa, Penda;
lady of, see Æthelflæd;
ealdorman of, see Aethelred.
Meretun, see Marton.
Mersea, Essex, Danes retire to, 117.
Milton (King’s), Kent, Danes fortify themselves at, 113;
negotiations of Alfred with Danes at, 113, cf. 163.
Milus, Eastern Saint, 34.
Modus tenendi Parliamenti, unhistorical character of, 130 n.
Modwenna, St., Alfred said to have been cured by, 63.
More, Sir Thomas, Hallam’s character of, 13;
imitates Boethius’ Consolatio, 179.
Mouric, king of Gwent, father of Brochmail and Fernmail, 42, 44.
Nachededorn, see Naked-thorn.
Naked-thorn, name of a Berkshire Hundred and Manor in Domesday, 94.
Nelson, Lord, anecdote of, 163.
Neot, St., not identical with Athelstan, king of Kent, 6;
buried in Cornwall, 26, 29;
translated to Huntingdonshire, 29;
lives of, 24, 53-9, 67;
the source of baseless legends about Alfred, 24, 27, 28, 53, 54, 67;
made a son of Æthelwulf, 55, 57;
alleged devotion of Alfred to, 67, 68;
Annals of, their relation to Asser, 22.
Nero, Roman Emperor, Epistle to the Romans written under, 209.
Newminster, Winchester, Alfred plans the foundation of, 68, 129;
abbot of, see Grimbald.
Nicholas I, Pope, dispatches pilgrims to the East, 132.
Nobis, bishop of St. Davids, expelled by Hemeid of Dyfed, 42;
dies in 873, 20;
succeeded by Llunwerth, 20, 44.
Northmen, use of the term, 87 n., see Danes.
Northumbria, not included in Saxonia, 38;
Danes in, 42;
relation of, to Wessex, 85;
conquered by the Danes, 88;
their occupation of, recognised at Wedmore, 105;
relations of Alfred with, 113;
share of, in the campaigns of 893 ff., 113-5, 117-8;
state of learning in, 139, 140 n.;
kings of, see Aldfrid, Egbert, Oswald;
earl of, see Siward.
Norway, called Germania by Welsh writers, 40, 41;
king of, see Harold Hardrada.
Notker III, of St. Gallon, translates Boethius’ Consolatio into High German, 189.
Nottingham, Danes winter at, 88;
Æthelred and Alfred march against, 88.
Novis, see Nobis.
Odda, ealdorman of Devon, defeats the Danes, 103, 104, 106.
Odo, count of Paris, king of the Western Kingdom, 41 n.
Offa, king of the Mercians, Eadburh, daughter of, 16;
his dyke, 37;
code of, 63 n.;
Alfred made descendant of, 65;
his patronage of learning, 136.
Ohthere, a Northman, voyage of, 160.
Orosius, his universal history, 8, 157;
Alfred’s translation of, 8, 10, 110, 159-65;
relation of, to Chronicle, 146, 157-8;
to the Bede translation, 156-9;
to the Boethius translation, 159.
Osburh, first wife of Æthelwulf, and mother of Alfred, 81, 83, 84, 123;
not divorced by Æthelwulf, 84.
Oswald, St., king of the Northumbrians, his body translated from Bardney to Gloucester, 34, 35.
Oxford, interpolation in Asser relating to, 23, 24;
legends relating to, 63, 68;
English and Danes reconciled at, 67;
University of, carries on Alfred’s work, 193;
bishop of, see Stubbs, William.
Paris, description of, by Asser, 18;
count of, see Odo.
Parker, Matthew, archbishop of Canterbury, interpolates the text of Asser, 24.
Paul I, Pope, sends a horologe to Pippin the Short, 131.
Pavia, Eadburh of Wessex, a mendicant at, 16.
Penda, king of the Mercians, attacks the East Angles, 66.
Persia, SS. Milus and Senneus martyred in, 34;
king of, sends a clock to Charles the Great, 131 n.
Petrarch, his treatise De Contemptu Mundi, 178 n.
Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea, his accessibility to suitors, 125.
Pilgrimages, passion for, in ninth century, 71.
Pippin, father of Charles the Great, Paul I sends a horologe to, 131.
Pippin, son of Charles the Great, unmarried, 17 n.
Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury, 127, 139;
attends the conference of Chelsea, 111;
letter of Fulk of Rheims to, 128;
a Mercian, 136;
helps Alfred with the Pastoral Care, 138, 143 n.
Psalter, Alfred’s fondness for, 16, 140, 153;
said to have translated part of, 147-9.
Reading, Berks., battles of, 93, 98;
Danes abandon, 99.
Relics, passion for, in ninth century, 71, 144-5.
Repton, Derbyshire, Danes winter at, and destroy monastery of, 100.
Rheims, dép. Marne, archbishop of, see Fulk.
Rhys, father of Howel, king of Glewissig, 19, 42, 44.
Richard I, king of England, character of, by Stubbs, 2.
Rochester, Kent, besieged by the Danes, and relieved by Alfred, 107, 108;
captured Danish ships brought to, 115.
Roger of Wendover, 25;
uses a life of St. Neot, 54;
his mistakes and confusions, 65, 76 n.
Rome, Werthryth goes to, 13;
Howel ap Rhys dies at, 19, 44;
English School at, see Saxones;
St. Neot visits, 56;
visits of Alfred to, 70-6;
Æthelwulf’s visit to, 74-6;
intellectual poverty of, 71;
pilgrimages to, 71;
attacks of the Saracens on, 77;
Leonine suburb of, 77;
Burgred dies at, 98 n., 100, cf. 199;
Alfred sends missions and alms to, 12, 99, 134-5;
three ‘Scots’ go to, 132;
dangers of a pilgrimage to, 134.
Rotri Mawr, king of North Wales, slain in 877, 19, 43;
sons of, 9, 42;
Anaraut, son of, 42;
avenged, 43.
Roughthorn Farm, possibly marked the site of battle of Ashdown, 94.
Rudolf, count of Upper Burgundy, king of the Middle Kingdom, 41 n.
Rudolf, abbot of St. Bertin’s, 137.
St. Bertin’s, Flanders, Grimbald, a monk of, 137;
Fulk and Rudolf, abbots of, 137;
attacks of Count Baldwin on, 137.
St. Davids, Pembrokeshire, Alfred’s protection desired for, 19, 42;
Asser returns to, 21;
Hemeid persecutes, 42;
bishops of, see Asser, Llunwerth, Nobis.
St. Omer, dép. Pas-de-Calais, France, St. Winnoc’s body translated to, and from, 35 n.
Saracens, ravages of, 77;
power of, in Italy and the East, 132-4;
good police of, 134.
Saxones, use of term by Asser, 37-9;
school of, at Rome, 39, 58;
burnt, 76;
restored by Æthelwulf, 76.
Saxonia, meaning of, in Asser, 37, cf. 18, 85.
Saxons, the Old or Continental, invaded by the Danes, 40;
4,500 of, massacred by Charles the Great, 201.
Scots, see Ireland.
Seals, use of, in England, 176 n.
Secundarius, meaning of title, 40, 89-91.
Seine, R., Danes retire to, 118.
Senneus, Eastern saint, 34.
Sergius II, Pope, ravages of Saracens under, 77.
Severn, R., Danes march up, 116;
march to, 118.
Severus, wall of, 158-9, 161 n.
Shaftesbury, Wilts., one of Alfred’s ‘burgs,’ 129 n.;
monastery of, founded by Alfred, 68, 128.
Sherborne, possible division of diocese of, 20, 21 n.;
bishops of, see Aldhelm, Asser, Heahmund, Wulfsige.
Shire-system, not invented by Alfred, 6, cf. 121.
Shoebury, Essex, Danes fortify themselves at, 115, 117.
Sicily, conquered by Saracens, 77.
Sigbert, ex-king of the East Angles, leads his subjects against Penda, 66.
Simeon of Durham, relation of, to Asser, 23, 31, 32, 34, 64;
double recension of part of, 31, 32, 61, 62.
Simon de Montfort, experiment of representation tried by, 210.
Sithiu, see St. Omer.
Siward, earl of Northumbria, anecdote of, 61.
Somerset, men of, rally to Alfred, 102;
ealdormen of, see Æthelnoth, Eanwulf.
Southwick, Hants, priory of, formerly owned Cotton MS. Otho, B. xi, 168 n.
Spain, ravages of Danes in, 77.
Stour, R., Essex, wikings defeated at mouth of, 64, 108.
Stubbs, William, Lord Bishop of Oxford, his character as an historian and view of history, 1-3;
his hopefulness, 3;
loss to the Church by his death, 3-4.
Suetonius, his life of Augustus copied by Einhard, 10.
Swale, R., Kent, Danes enter, 113.
Swanage, Dorset, Danish fleet wrecked off, 101.
Tanistry, institution of, 89.
Teudyr ab Elised, king of Brecheiniog, father of Helised ap Teudyr, 42, 44.
Thames, R., Danes driven across, 114;
march up, 115, 116;
draw their ships up, 117.
Thanes, increase of, under Alfred, 111, 112.
Thanet, Kent, Danes winter in, 87.
Theodoric, the Ostrogoth, his treatment of Boethius, 178-9.
Theodosius, patriarch of Jerusalem, 34 n., 133.
Thomas, St., the Apostle, see India.
Thorney, island on the Hertfordshire Colne, Danes blockaded in, 114-5.
Titus, Roman Emperor, anecdote of, 161;
St. Louis compared to, 161 n.
Tolius, mythical monk of Croyland, 66.
Torksey, Lincs, Danes winter at, 100.
Trajan, Roman Emperor, mediaeval legend of, 209.
Tyne, R., Egbert, king of district north of, 88;
Danes winter on, 100.
Ubba, Danish chief, defeated at Kenny Castle, 104.
Verberie, France, dép. Oise, Æthelwulf marries Judith at, 78.
Verden, Hanover, Charles the Great executes 4,500 Saxons at, 201 n.
Victoria, queen of England, comparison of, with Alfred, 200, 210;
funeral sermon on, 207-13.
Wales, Danes retire to, 117;
kings of North, see Anaraut, Rotri.
Wallingford, Berks., Caesar fights a battle near, 158.
Wanating, see Wantage.
Wantage, Berks., Alfred born at, 22, 70.
Wardour, Wilts., Alfred at, 125.
Wareham, Dorset, Danes occupy, and evacuate, 100, 101.
Wedmore, Somerset, Guthrum’s chrism-loosing at, 103.
Welsh, act in concert with the Danes, 99, cf. 43;
princes of, submit to Alfred, see Alfred;
co-operate against the Danes, 116.
Wendover, Bucks, Roger of, see Roger.
Werebert, bishop of Leicester, 137 n.
Werferth, bishop of Worcester, 127;
robbed of woods at Woodchester, 14;
his heroism, 53;
called St. Werferth, 53, 67;
friendship of, with Æthelnoth, 106;
a Mercian, 136, 169;
translation of Gregory’s Dialogues ascribed to, 142, 169;
Boethius translation wrongly assigned to, 185 n.
Werthryth, widow of Cered, 13;
disposes of her land to Cuthwulf, 13;
her title-deeds carried off by the Danes, 13.
Werwulf, Mercian priest, chaplain to Alfred, 136.
Wessex, relations of, to other kingdoms, 85;
cleared of the Danes, 104;
Danes ravage coasts of, 118;
kings of, see Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred, Æthelwulf, Alfred, Athelstan, Beorhtric, Cuthred, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Egbert;
bishop of, see Birinus.
Wight, Isle of, naval engagement off, 119.
William I, king of England, owns the site of the battle of Ashdown, 94;
one of the creators of England’s greatness, 210.
William of Malmesbury, his confusions and mistakes, 7;
his account of Alfred, 62, 151;
had special sources for Athelstan’s reign, 62;
relation of, to Asser and Chron., 62;
his assertion that Alfred translated part of the Psalter, 147-50;
librarian of Malmesbury, 150;
his account of Alfred’s Boethius translation, 188-9.
Willibald, St., pilgrimage of, to Jerusalem, 134 n.
Wilton, Wilts., battle of, 98, 99.
Wilts., men of, rally to Alfred, 102;
ealdorman of, see Æthelhelm.
Wimborne, Dorset, Æthelred interred at, 98.
Winchester, Æthelwulf said to have been bishop of, 7;
Asser taken ill at, 21;
captured by Danes, 79, 87;
New Minster at, see Newminster;
connexion of Chronicle with, 147, 151;
and of Domesday with, 151;
Alfred buried at, 198;
bishops of, see Ælfheah, I and II, Æthelwold.
Winnoc, St., his body translated from Wormhoult to St. Omer, and thence to Bergues, 35 n.
Woodchester, Gloucestershire, bishop Werferth robbed of woods at, 14.
Worcester, fortified by Æthelred and Æthelflæd, 111;
bishop of, see Werferth;
Florence of, see Florence.
Wormhoult, dép. Nord, France, St. Winnoc’s body translated from, 35 n.
Wrekin, the, Shropshire, Danes in the district of, 75.
Wulfsige, bishop of Sherborne, a copy of the Pastoral Care addressed to, 20;
succeeded by Asser, 20 n.
Wulfstan, voyage of, 160.
York, Danes at, 92;
Æthelnoth attacks the Danes at, 117 n.

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