The Book of Ancient Bastards: 101 of the Worst Miscreants and Misdeeds From Ancient Sumer to the Enlightenment
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Crassus, Marcus Licinius, 82–83
Crispus, 141
Critias, 29–31
The Critias, 29
Crusades, 168–70, 181
Curio, Gaius Scribonius, 100
Curthose, Robert, 162
Cyclops, 34
Cyrus the Great, 17
D
Dandolo, Enrico, 169–70
Dante, 199
Darius I, King, 23, 25
Darius I, King of Persia, 18–19
David, King, 14, 15
Demetrius II, 53
DeMille, Cecil B., 2
DeMolay, Jacques, 198, 200
Desiderius, King, 146, 147, 159
Despenser, Edward le, 203
Despenser, Hugh le, 202
“Devil’s Brood,” 171, 173, 183–85
Dio, Cassius, 100, 120, 128, 129, 133
Diocles, Gaius Aurelius Valerius, 137
Diocletian, 135–39
Dionysius I, 32–34
Dives, Marcus Licinius Crassus, 82–
83
Dolabella, Gnaeus Cornelius, 88,
89
Domitian, 123–24, 143
Domus Aureum, 115
Drusilla, Livia, 104–5, 111
Drusus, 104–5, 109
Dunstan, Abbot, 156, 157
E
Eadwig, 156–57
Edmund I, 156
Edward I, King, 193–96, 201
Edward II, King, 201–4
Edward III, King, 204, 214, 228
Edward IV, King, 225
Edward V, King, 225
Edward VI, King, 231
Edward of Westminster, 225
Edward the Black, 205, 214
Edward the Confessor, 161
Einhard, 146
Elagabalus, 110, 133–34
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 171–74, 178, 183
Elizabeth I, 231
Elizabeth II, 206
F
Fausta, 141
Felix, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, 69–70
First Crusade, 168
Formosus, 150–51
Fourth Crusade, 169–70, 181
Froissart, Jean, 205, 207, 209, 214
Fulvia, 100
G
Galba, Servius Sulpicius, 117–19, 121
Galeazzo, Gian, 207–8
Galerius, 138
Gaveston, Piers, 202, 203
Geoffrey II of Brittany, 183–84
Gerald of Wales, 178, 179, 183, 188
Gerberga, 147
Germanicus, Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus, 109, 114. See also Nero
Geta, 131–32
Godwinson, Harold, 161
“Golden House,” 115
Gouth, Raymond Bertrand de, 199
Gratianus, Johannes, 159
Green, Peter, 45
Gregory VI, Pope, 159
Gregory VII, Pope, 165–66
Gryffudd, Llewellyn Ap, 195
H
“Hammer of the Scots,” 194, 196
Hammurabi, 4–5
Hammurabi’s Code, 4–5
Hannibal of Carthage, 64–65
Hapsburg, Charles V, 231
Hastings, Battle of, 161
Helena, 141
Henry III, Emperor, 159
Henry IV, Emperor, 165–66
Henry VI, Emperor, 190
Henry II, King, 171–73, 178, 183
Henry III, King, 175, 192–93, 202
Henry IV, King, 214–15, 228
Henry V, King, 215–18, 221, 228
Henry VII, King, 227–30
Henry VIII, King, 136, 230–32
Henry the Lion, 190
Henry the Young King, 175–77
Herleva, 161
Herodian, 134
Herodotus, 19, 20, 24
Hezekiah, King, 12–13
Hippias, 22–23, 26, 28
Histiaeus, 25
The Historia Augusta, 136
Hood, Robin, 185
Hortensius, 94
Hruodgaus, 146
Hyparchus, 22
I
Innocent III, Pope, 181–82, 190–
91
“Ionian Revolt,” 19, 23–24, 26
Irene, Empress, 148–49
Isabella of Angouleme, 193, 202,
203
Isabella of Castile, 219
J
John I of England, 171–73, 175, 185–87, 189–90, 192
John of Gaunt, 205, 214–15,
228
John the Good, 209–10
Julian, 143
Julianus, Didius, 127–28
Justinian, 144–45
K
Keraunos, Ptolemy, 45–47
Knights Templar, 197–200
L
Lackland, John, 185
Lactantius, 137
Laodice, 49
Lentulus, Publius Cornelius, 99
Leo IV, Emperor, 148
Leopold V, Archduke, 179
Lewes, Battle of, 195
Licinianus, 141
Licinius, 141
The Lion in Winter, 179
Livy, 48, 61, 62
Lombards, 146–47
Long, Huey, 165
Longinus, Gaius Cassius, 97–98
Longshanks, Edward, 193–96, 201
Louis VII of France, 171–73, 188
Louis XI of France, 221–22
Lucan, 93
Lucretia, 62
Lusignans, 193
Lysandra, 45–46
Lysimachus, 45–46
M
Maccabee, Judah, 50
Macedonian Dynasty, 152–53
Macro, 107
Magna Carta, 187, 193
Magnus, Gnaeus Pompeius, 84–85
Manlius, 72, 73
Marcelinus, Ammianus, 143
Marcia, 126
Marius, Gaius, 66–68, 89
“Marius’s Mules,” 67
Marshall, William, 175, 176
Martial, 119
Maslow, Abraham, 194
Maud of Saint-Valery, 186
Maxentius, 141
Maximian, 141
McLynn, Frank, 190
Medici, Giovanni de’, 223
Messalina, 113
Michael III, 152–53
Milvian Bridge, Battle of, 140
Mithridates VI of Pontus, 55–57
Montfort, Simon de, 194
Mortimer, Geoffrey, 203
Mortimer, Roger, 203–4
N
Nabonidus, King, 16–17
Nancy, Battle of, 222
Narses, 144, 145
Nero, 109, 114–17, 119, 121, 126
Neville, Anne, 225
Norwich, John Julius, 148, 154, 169
Numerian, 137–38
O
Octavia, 100
Octavian, Gaius Julius Caesar, 60, 86–87, 98–106. See also Caesar, Augustus
Odo of Bayeux, 163–64
Olmedo, Sebastián de, 219
Olympias of Macedonia, 37, 39–41
Olympic Games, 40, 116
Otho, Marcus Salvius, 119–20
Otto IV of Germany, 190–91
P
Padilla, Maria de, 206
Parr, Catherine, 231
Pastor, Ludwig, 212
Paterculus, Velleius, 55
Pedro of Castile, 205–6
Pepin, King, 146
Percy, Henry, 217
Perdiccas II, 35
Pericles, 28
Pertinax, 127, 128
Peter of Wakefield, 186
Petrarch, 208
Philip II Augustus of France, 172, 179, 183–84, 186, 188–90
Philip II of Macedonia, 35–39, 43
Philip IV the Fair, 197–200
Philip VI of France, 209
Philip of Macedon, 216
Philip of Swabia, 190
Philip the Good, 221
Philoxenus, 33–34
Pindarus, 98
Pisistratus, 22
Plantagenet, Geoffrey, 183–84
Plantagenet, Henry, 171–73
Plantagenet, John, 185–87
Plantagenet, Matilda, 190
Plantagenet, Richard, 178–80
Plato, 29, 32
Plautianus, Gaius Fulvius, 131
Pliny the Younger, 124
Plutarch, 39, 74, 86, 94, 98, 99
Polycrates, 20–21
Pompey the Great, 72, 84–85, 94, 96
Popilius, 48–49
Postumus, Agrippa, 105
Prignano, Bartolomeo, 212–13
“Prince of Wales,” 195, 201
Ptolemy I Soter, 42–43, 45, 59
Ptolemy V, 51
Ptolemy VI, 53
Ptolemy VII, 51
Ptolemy VIII, 51–52
Ptolemy Keraunos (Thunderbolt), 45–47
Ptolemy Memphitis, 52
Pulcher, Publius Clodius, 79–81
Pulgar, Hernando de, 220
R
Ralph of Diceto, 175
Ramesses II, 9–11
Richard II, King, 214–15
Richard III, King, 225–26
Richard III, 225, 226
Richard I the Lion-Hearted, 171, 173, 177–80, 185–86, 188–89
Richard of Gloucester, 225–26
Robert I of Normandy, 161, 168
Rome, burning, 114, 115
Rufus, Quintus Curtius, 37
Runciman, Steven, 170
S
Sabinus, Flavius, 122
Saladin, 179–80
Sargon II, 12
Sargon of Akkad, 1–3
Savoyards, 192–93
Sejanus, Lucius Aelius, 106–9
Seleucus, 45–46, 53
Seleucus IV, 48–49
Seleucus V, 53–54
Seneca, 114
Sennacherib, King Of Assyria, 12–13
Severus, Septimius, 128–32
Shakespeare, William, 4, 60, 97, 216, 225–26
Siculus, 32, 42
Socrates, 27, 29
Solomon, King, 14–15
“Spider King,” 221–22
Stephen VI, Pope, 150–51, 181
Stone of Scone, 196
Suetonius, 110, 112–13, 118, 120, 122–23
Suidas, 22, 23
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 69–70
Sulpicianus, 128
Swynford, Katherine, 228
Sylvester III, Pope, 159
“Synod Horrenda,” 151
T
Tacitus, 104, 106, 108, 114–15, 117, 121, 124
Tarquinius, Sextus, 62–63
Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius, 61–63
Templars, 197–200
Theodora, 144, 145
Theophano, 154
Theramenes, 29–31
Thucydides, 27
Thurinus, Gaius Octavius, 102. See also Octavian, Gaius Julius Caesar
Tiberius, 104–11
Torquemada, Juan de, 220
Torquemada, Tomas de, 219–20
Tudor, Edmund, 228
Tudor, Henry, 226–28
Tudor, Owain, 228
Tullia, 61
Tzimiskes, John, 154
U
Urban VI, Pope, 212–13
Uticensis, Marcus Porcius Cato, 93–94
V
Valens, Fabius, 121
Valois, Catherine de, 217,
228
Vercingetorix, 91–92
Verres, Gaius, 87–90
Vespasian, 122, 123
Victor III, Pope, 159, 166
Visconti, Bernabò, 207–8
Visconti, Galeazzo, 207–8
Visconti, Matteo, 207–8
Vitellius, Aulus, 120–22
Vladimir I, 155
W
William I, King, 162, 163
William II (Rufus), 164, 167–68
William of Nogaret, 199
William the Conqueror, 161–62, 167
Woodville, Elizabeth, 226
X
Xenophon, 29, 30