William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

INDEX

A

• Abernethy, 323, 325
• Abingdon, chronicle of, 178
• —— knight service of, 449
• —— Ethelhelm, abbot of, 399, 450
• —— history of, 416, 494
• Adeliz, countess of Ponthieu, 64, 234
• Ælfwold, abbot of St. Benet of Holme, 173
• Agelwig, abbot of Evesham, 333
• Agriculture, system of, 479, 480
• Aire, river, passage of, 278, 279
• Alan III., count of Brittany, 66, 72, 137, 341
• Alan Fergant, duke of Brittany, 342
• Alan, earl of Richmond, 200, 324, 361
• Aldreth, Cambridgeshire, 298, 300
• Alençon, 63, 91, 299
• —— siege of, 94, 95
• Alfred the Etheling, 47, 51
• Alfred, King, 6, 12, 22, 25, 179, 394
• Algar, English prisoner, 372
• Alney, treaty of, 214
• Ambrières, 118, 119
• Angevin succession war, 126, 127, 130, 160, 304
• Anjou, county of, 66, 88, 126, 127
• —— counts of, see Fulk Nerra, Fulk le Rechin, Geoffrey Martel, Geoffrey le Barbu.
• Anselm of Aosta, 42, 43
• Ansgar the Staller (Esegar), 224, 238, 241, 424
• Apulia, 97, 99
• Aquitaine, 141
• Archil, Northumbrian thegn, 265, 268
• Argentan, 78, 79
• Arlette, mistress of Robert I., 63, 64, 234
• Army, the feudal, 456
• —— —— numbers of, 450, 451
• —— —— at Hastings, 196
• Arnold, bishop of le Mans, 310, 312
• Arnulf, son of Baldwin VI., of Flanders, 305, 306
• Arnulf, count of Flanders, 27
• Arques, county of, 101
• —— siege of, 102-105
• —— see William, count of.
• Arthur of Brittany, 233
• Arundel, castle of, 428
• Arve, valley of, 76, 77, 123
• Asbiorn, Earl, 271, 285, 291, 321
• Ascelin, son of Arthur, 375
• Assessment, principles of, 466-472
• Athelstan, King, 19, 27, 28
• Aubrey, earl of Northumbria, 353
• Aversa, battle of, 106
• Avranchin, the, 25, 138
• Axholme, Isle of, 275
• Azo, marquis of Liguria, 308

B

• Baile Hill, York, 269
• Baldwin, sheriff of Devon, 257, 422
• Baldwin V., count of Flanders, 91, 105, 106, 108, 109, 126, 160, 171, 172, 305
• Baldwin VI., count of Flanders, 305
• Baldwin, son of Count Baldwin VI., 305, 307
• Bamburgh, 317
• Barking, 227, 233, 238
• Battle, abbey of, 197, 397
• Baudri de Guitry, 372, 373
• Bavinkhove, battle of, 306
• Bayeux, 102, 115
• —— bishop of, see Odo.
• Beaumont (Maine), castle of, 313, 360
• Beaurain, 154
• Beauvoisis, 112
• Bec, schools of, 41-43
• Bedfordshire, assessment of, 467-469
• Bellême, county of, 39, 91, 105, 128, 429
• —— see Mabel of.
• Beneficium, 32
• “Beorcham,” 221
• Berengar of Tours, 42
• Berkhamstead, Little, 222
• Bertha of Blois, 130
• Bessin, the, 25, 81, 121
• Beverley, church of, 385
• Bilsdale-in-Cleveland, 282
• Biota of Mantes, 129, 131, 136
• Blanchelande, peace of, 314-316, 344-346
• Bleddyn, king of Gwynedd, 248, 262, 276
• Blois, county of, 38, 66, 67
• —— see Odo II., Theobald III., counts of.
• Blyth (Notts), 441
• Bonjen, valley of, 361
• Bonneville, council of, 180
• Border, the Scotch, 317, 318, 323, 324
• Boscherville, 351
• Brand, abbot of Peterborough, 228, 290
• Bresle, river, 24
• Breteuil, 117
• —— laws of, 117
• Bretford (Wilts), 67
• Brian of Penthievre, 270, 277, 324
• Brill (Bucks), 420
• Brionne, siege of, 85
• —— county of, 114
• Bristol, 258
• Brittany, 66, 138, 141
• —— volunteers from, 168
• —— —— at Hastings, 200, 201
• —— see Alan, Conan, Hoel, counts of.
• Broken Tower, the, 217
• Buckingham, earldom of, 167
• “Burh-bot,” 300
• Burton-on-Trent, 420

C

• Caen, 122, 351, 374, 375, 401
• —— abbey of, Holy Trinity, 180, 358
• —— —— St. Stephen’s, 42, 180
• —— burial of William I. at, 374
• Cambridge, 266, 298, 333
• Canterbury, 217
• —— see Anselm, Dunstan, Lanfranc, Robert of Jumièges, Stigand, archbishops of.
• Capetian House, 360
• —— in alliance with Normandy, 29, 33, 67, 68, 73, 79
• Capital punishment, 87, 340
• Cardiff, castle of, 354
• Cardigan, 429
• Carham, battle of, 317
• Carisbrooke, castle of, 356
• Carlisle, 323
• Carolingian Empire, 1
• Carolingian House, in alliance with Normandy, 26, 27, 29
• Carucates, 470, 471
• Castles, in England, 242, 243, 263, 264, 451-453
• Castle-guard, 451, 452
• Celibacy, clerical, enforcement of, 396, 397
• Champagne, county of, 67, 141;
  • see also Blois.
• Chancellor, the, 418
• Chancery, the royal, 53
• Charles III., king of West Franks, 25, 26
• Chartres, schools of, 41
• Chateauneuf, castle of, 346
• Chaumont, 368
• Chester, 276, 281, 283-285, 388, 429
• —— earldom of, 167, 425, 429-431
• —— see Gerbod, Hugh, earls of.
• Christian, bishop of Aarhus, 271
• Cicely, daughter of William I., 180
• Claim of fealty, papal, 404, 405
• Claire-sur-Epte, treaty of, 24, 25, 26, 40, 79
• “Clamores” in Lincolnshire Domesday, 497, 498
• Clarendon, constitutions of, 357
• Cleveland, 176, 282, 317, 320
• Clifford’s Tower (York), 265
• ClunyCluny, abbey of, 379
• Cluniac movement, 40, 385-387
• Cnut, king of England and Denmark, 5, 15, 18, 44, 65, 147, 150-152, 211, 253
• Cnut II. (Saint), king of Denmark, 271, 334, 335, 363, 365
• Coesnon, river, 139
• Commune concilium, 408-415
• Conan, duke of Brittany, 67, 137-140
• Confiscation, the great, 235-240
• Constance, widow of King Robert I., 68
• “Consul Palatinus,” 427
• Copsige, earl of Northumbria, 233, 247
• Corbie, 307
• Cornwall, 259, 260
• Cotentin, the, 25, 81, 101, 172
• Councils, ecclesiastical, 392, 393
• Court, the shire, 421, 422, 433, 437, 442
• —— the hundred, 393, 394, 433, 442, 444
• Coutances, church of St. Mary at, 137
• —— see Geoffrey, bishop of.
• Crowland, abbey of, 288, 290, 338
• Cumberland, 317, 318, 321, 322
• Curia, the papal, 55, 163, 164, 377
• Curia Regis, 416, 419, 456

D

• Danegeld, 460, 465, 466
• Danelaw, 9, 10, 12, 24, 253, 272, 273
• Dean, forest of, 272
• Denmark, kings of, see Cnut I. and II., Gorm, Harold Blue-Tooth, Harold Hein, Swegen Forkbeard, Swegen Estrithson.
• Derwent (Yorkshire), 178
• Dieppe, 251
• Dinan, siege of, 140
• Dive, river, 81
• —— —— estuary of, 102, 121, 182, 183
• —— Church of Notre Dame at, 245
• Dol, 138, 139, 341
• Domesday Book, 7, 10, 11, 13, 16, 33, 57, 117, 173, 234, 235, 237-240, 257, 273, 280, 325, 327, 345, 367, 392, 411, 414, 415, 430, 457-501
• —— Inquest, 437, 485, 486, 498, 499
• —— arrangement of, 489-493
• —— composition of, 486, 487
• —— indefiniteness of, 482-485
• —— legal theory underlying, 494-498
• —— meaning of name, 500, 501
• Domfront, 91-95, 101
• Donald, son of Malcolm III., 323
• Dover, 50, 156, 216, 217, 249-251
• Downton (Wilts), 355, 420
• Dreux, county of, 76, 77
• Drogo, count of the Vexin, 367
• Droitwich, 420
• Dunbar, 317-325
• Duncan, king of Scots, 318
• Dunstan, Archbishop, 18, 20, 381, 406
• Durham, 268, 324, 334
• —— modern county of, 321

E

• Eadgyth, wife of Edward the Confessor, 218
• —— marriage of, 144
• Eadmer, historian, 382
• Eadric Streona, earl of Mercia, 15, 18, 45, 248
• Eadric the Wild, 228, 248, 276
• Ealdgyth, wife of Harold II., 171
• Ealdred, archbishop of York, 71, 157, 221, 225, 230, 260, 263, 275, 384-387, 390
• Ealdwulf II., earl of Northumbria, 58
• Earldoms, the great, 14-17, 46, 424, 425
• East Anglia, assessment of, 469, 470
• Edgar the Etheling, 148, 151-153, 159, 212, 228, 289, 320, 325
• —— elected king, 213
• —— submission of, 221
• —— accompanies William to Normandy, 244
• —— flight of (1068), 262, 265
• —— attacks York, 268
• —— joins Danish fleet, 273
• —— in Scotland, 295
• —— final flight of, 321
• —— receives offer of Montreuil, 326
• —— returns to England, 327
• Edgar, king, 9, 20, 394
• Edington, battle of, 6
• Edith the Swan-necked, 207
• Edmund Ironside, 15, 21, 147, 209, 211
• Edmund, sheriff of Hertfordshire, 231
• Ednoth the Staller, 259
• Edred, King, 19
• Edward the Confessor, 21, 36, 49, 52, 54, 60-62, 66, 76, 91, 143-147, 331, 411
• —— death of, 157
• —— ecclesiastical appointments by, 385
• Edward the Elder, 7, 19, 26
• Edward the Etheling, 147, 148
• Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, 423
• Edwin, earl of Mercia, 59, 61, 153, 177, 191-193, 212-215, 227, 230, 234, 412
• —— accompanies William I. to Normandy, 244, 245
• —— first revolt of, 261-264
• —— flight and death of, 295-297
• Edwy, king of Wessex, 8, 20
• Elf, the, treaty of, 48
• Ely, abbey of, 288, 432
• —— Domesday Inquest relating to, 459
• —— Isle of, 290-300, 321
• —— private jurisdiction over, 440, 441
• Emma, wife of Ethelred II., 29, 30, 31, 47, 65, 143
• Emma, wife of Earl Ralf, 330, 334
• English sheriffs, 424
• Enguerrand, count of Ponthieu, 64, 76
• —— death of, 104, 111, 234
• Eon, count of Penthievre, 119, 200, 324
• Epte, river, 24, 68
• Eric, earl of Northumbria, 45
• Eric of Upsala, 2
• Esegar, see Ansgar.
• Estrith, sister of Cnut, 65
• Ethelmer, bishop of Elmham, 389
• Ethelnoth, Kentish thegn, 244
• Ethelred II., 8, 15, 18, 20, 29, 30, 44, 143
• Ethelric, bishop of Selsey, 389
• Ethelwine, bishop of Durham, 266, 268, 389
• Ethelwold, prior of Peterborough, 292, 295
• Eu, 24, 105
• —— county of, 100
• —— see Robert, William, counts of.
• Eudo fitz Hubert (de Rye), 418
• Eustace, count of Boulogne, 50, 169, 228, 231, 249, 250, 300
• Evesham, abbey of, 281
• —— see Agelwig, abbot of.
• Evreux, county of, 70
• —— see William, count of.
• Exeter, 30, 252, 254, 259, 277, 454
• —— revolt of, 253-257, 267
• —— see of, 383
• Exning, 330, 332, 340