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A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485

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by Vincent, Nicholas

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  INDEX

  Adelard of Bath 1

  Adrian IV, Pope 1

  Aethelred II ‘the Unready’, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Agincourt, Battle of (1415) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  agriculture 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 see also livestock

  Ailred of Rievaulx 1, 2

  alchemy 1

  alcohol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Alexander II, Pope 1

  Alexander III, King of Scotland 1

  Alfred the Great, King of Wessex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Alfred (son of Aethelred II) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Almain, Henry of 1, 2

  Angevins 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Anglo-Saxons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  see also Aethelred II; Edward the Confessor;Godwinson, Harold; Hastings, Battle of (1066); William I ‘the Conqueror’

  Anjou 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

  Anne, Queen (wife of Richard II) 1, 2, 3

  Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury 1, 2, 3, 4

  Aquitaine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  architecture 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  see also castles

  art 1, 2, 3

  Arthur, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Arthur of Brittany 1, 2, 3, 4

  Arundel estate and earls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Arundel, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Assendon, Battle of (1016) 1, 2, 3

  astrolabe 1, 2, 3

  astrology 1, 2

  Austria 1, 2

  Avignon 1, 2, 3

  Bacon, Roger 1, 2

  Ball, John 1, 2, 3, 4

  ballads and plays 1

  Balliol, Edward 1

  Balliol, King John de 1, 2, 3, 4

  Bannockburn, Battle of (1314) 1, 2, 3

  Barnet, Battle of (1471) 1

  Battle Abbey, Hastings 1, 2, 3

  Bayeux Tapestry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

  Bayonne 1, 2, 3

  Beaufort, Edmund 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Beaufort, Henry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Beaufort, Lady Margaret 1, 2, 3

  Beaufort family 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Beaumont, Louis de 1

  Beaumont, Ralph de 1

  Becket, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Bede of Jarrow 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Bedford peerage see John, duke of Bedford

  Belet family 1, 2, 3

  bell-makers 1

  Bellême, Robert de 1

  Black Death 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Blind Harry 1

  Blois, Henry of 1, 2, 3

  Bodiam castle, Sussex 1

  Bolingbroke, Henry see Henry IV, King

  Boniface of Savoy, archbishop of Canterbury 1

  Boniface VIII, Pope 1

  books and writings (historical) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

  see also Domesday Books and survey; Geoffrey of Monmouth; literature (historical); Magna Carta

  Bordeaux 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Bosworth, Battle of (1485) 1

  Bouvines, Battle of (1214) 1

  Braose, William de 1

  Brémule, Battle of (1119) 1, 2, 3

  Brétigny, Treaty of 1, 2, 3

  Brewer, William 1

  Bristol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Brito, Richard 1

  Brittany and Bretons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

  Bruce, Robert, King of Scotland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Bruce, Robert de 1

  Brutus (Trojan) 1, 2, 3

  Burgh, Hubert de 1, 2, 3

  Burley, Simon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Bury, Richard 1

  Bury St Edmunds bishopric 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Byzantine Empire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Cade, Jack 1

  Cade, William 1

  Caen, Normandy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Caernarvon Castle 1, 2, 3

  Caesar, Julius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Calais 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  Cambridge University 1, 2, 3, 4

  Canmore, Malcolm 1

  Canterbury Cathedral and archbishopric 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43

  see also archbishops by name; Becket, Thomas

  Cantiloupe, Thomas 1

  Capetians 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  see also Philip Augustus, King

  Carlisle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Carlyle, Thomas 1

  Carthusian monks 1, 2, 3

  Castile 1, 2, 3, 4

  castles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  see also individual castles by name

  Catherine, Queen (wife of Henry V) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  cattle see livestock

  Caxton, William 1, 2

  Celts 1, 2, 3

  Channel Islands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  chantries 1, 2, 3

  Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Charles IV, King of France 1

  Charles VI, King of France 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Charles VII, King of France 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Chaucer, Geoffrey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Chertsey Abbey, Surrey 1, 2

  Chester town and peerage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Chichele, Henry, archbishop of Canterbury 1, 2

  chivalry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Church and Christianity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48

  see also Becket, Thomas; cathedrals by name; heresy; monasteries; papal authority; relics; individual clerics by name; individual popes by name

  Cistercian monasticism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  civil wars (in England) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  see also War of the Roses

  Clement V, Pope 1

  climate 1, 2

  Clito 1, 2

  clocks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  clothing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Cnut IV, King of Denmark 1

  Cnut, King of England and Denmark 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

  coal 1, 2

  coinage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Constantine the Great, Holy Roman Emperor 1, 2, 3

  Constantinople 1, 2, 3

  Cornwall estate and peerage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  coronations 1, 2, 3

  Edward II 1

  Henry I 1

  Henry II 1, 2

  Henry III 1, 2

  Henry IV 1

  Henry VI 1, 2

  John 1

  Richard II 1, 2, 3

  Stephen 1, 2

  William II 1

  William I ‘the Conqueror’ 1, 2, 3

  crafts and arts guilds 1

  Crécy, Battle of (1346) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  crime and outlaws 1, 2, 3

  see also executions; laws and courts

  Crusades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

  Cumbria and Cumberland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Dallyngrigge, Edward 1

  Danes and Danelaw 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  David II, King of Scotland 1, 2

  Derby peerage 1, 2, 3, 4

  Despenser family 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  disease see Black Death; health; leprosy

  Domesday Books and survey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Dover 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Dublin 1, 2, 3

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bsp; Dudo of St-Quentin 1

  Dupplin Moor, Battle of (1332) 1

  Durham Cathedral and bishopric 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Eadmer 1, 2

  East Anglia and peerage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Ecclesiastical History of the English People 1, 2, 3

  Edgar, King 1

  Edgar the Aetheling 1, 2, 3

  Edgcote, Battle of (1469) 1

  Edith, Queen (wife of Edward the Confessor) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Edmund ‘Ironside’, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Edmund (son of Henry III) 1

  Edward ‘the Confessor’, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42

  Edward I, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

  Edward II, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

  Edward III, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

  Edward IV, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Edward V, King 1, 2, 3, 4

  Edward, duke of York (Edward III’s grandson) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Edward of Lancaster (son of Henry VI) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Edward the Black Prince 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Edward ‘the Exile’ (son of Edmund ‘Ironside’) 1, 2

  Eleanor of Aquitaine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 196, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Eleanor, Queen (wife of Edward I) 1, 2, 3

  Eleanor, Queen (wife of Henry III) 1, 2, 3

  Ely bishopric 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

  Emma (wife of Aethelred II and Cnut) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Essex peerage 1, 2

  Eustace (son of King Stephen) 1, 2

  Eustace, count of Boulogne 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Evesham, Battle of (1265) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Exchequer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  see also finance; taxes and subsidies

  executions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

  Exeter bishopric and earls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  falconry 1, 2, 3

  Falkirk, Battle of (1298) 1

  famine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Fastolf, Sir John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Faversham Abbey, Kent 1

 

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