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The Third Horseman

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  INDEX

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take you to the beginning of that print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.

  Adolf of Nassau, 219

  Agobard, 217

  Agrarian Life of the Middle Ages, The (Postan), 97

  agriculture, 29–30, 31, 82

  crop rotation system in, 125

  land captured for, 18–19, 34, 68, 97–100

  land measures and, 147

  medieval, inefficiency of, 155

  Medieval Warm Period and, 13, 17–18, 32

  nitrogen and, 99, 146

  physical hardships associated with, 83–84

  plows in, 125–26, 186–87

  rain and, 122–23, 124, 128–29

  soil and, 124–25, 127–28, 146, 150

  techniques used in, 98, 99–100

  and wartime attacks on farms, 121, 139

  albedo, 10n, 137

  Airmyn, William, 235

  Albert of Habsburg, 219

  Alcuin, 80

  Alice de Lacy (wife of earl of Lancaster), 177, 207

  Alexander II, King, 36, 63

  Alexander II, Pope, 32

  Alexander III, King, 36–38, 40, 39–40, 41, 73, 104, 251

  Amiens Cathedral, 192

  Anarchy, 35

  Angell, Norman, 100–101

  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, 24

  Annales (Trokelowe), 135–36

  Annals of Connacht, 180

  annuities, 202–3

  Apocalypse Tapestry, 259

  Arctic Ocean, 140

  Arnold, David, 133

  Atlantic Gulf Stream, 140

  atmosphere, 9–10

  Avignon papacy, 167–68

  Aymer de Valence, see Pembroke, Aymer de Valence, earl of

  Azores High, 12–13, 67–68

  Badenoch, John Comyn, lord of, 39, 46n, 48, 54, 60–61, 66, 75, 103

  Bruce and, 76–78

  Bruce’s murder of, 77, 81, 101

  Badlesmere, Bartholomew de, 176–77, 195–96, 207

  Badlesmere, Lady, 196

  Baldock, Robert, 243, 245

  Balliol, Edward, 241, 254

  Balliol, King John, 43–46, 48–52, 54, 55, 58, 60, 65–66, 75, 103, 104

  Baltic Sea, 180, 197, 224

  Bannockburn, Battle of, 112–21, 122, 128, 138, 176, 182, 183, 206, 229

  map of, 116

  Barbour, John, 76, 77, 81, 101–2, 111, 118, 209

  Barrow, Geoffrey W. S., 71

  Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), 157, 159

  Basset, Ralph, 234

  Becket, Thomas, 182

  beer and ale, 138–39, 144, 153, 154–55, 157, 224

  Bek, Antony, 47, 91

  Benedict XII, Pope, 225

  Benedictines, 163

  Berwick, 40–42, 47, 49, 51–54, 101, 104–5, 110–11, 180–81, 182, 183, 194, 200

  campaign of 1319, 188–90

  Birger II, King, 174

  Black Death, 160, 163, 200, 256

  Blanche of Burgundy, 171–72

  Bloch, Marc, 149

  Blount, Thomas, 247

 
Boendale, Jan van, 162

  Bolton Priory, 156, 180

  Boniface VIII, Pope, 62, 64–65, 219

  Boniface IX, Pope, 166

  bordars, 33, 126

  Bracton, Henry de, 126

  Braudel, Fernand, 145

  Braveheart, 71

  Bren, Llywelyn, 128

  Bristol, 128

  Bruce, Alexander, 75–76, 85

  Bruce, David, 254

  Bruce, Edward, 75, 110, 111, 114, 115, 118, 179–80

  Bruce, Elizabeth, 84

  Bruce, Marjorie, 254

  Bruce, Mary, 84

  Bruce, Neil, 85

  Bruce, Robert (Guardian of Scotland; King Robert II), 1–2, 4, 45–46, 60, 61, 66, 73, 75–78, 84–87, 101, 103–6, 109–21, 139–40, 150, 165, 176, 205, 208, 210, 211, 217, 220, 238, 241, 249, 251, 252, 255

  at Bannockburn, 112–21, 128

  Berwick and, 180–81, 182, 188 190

  Comyn (earl of Buchan) and, 103

  Comyn (lord of Badenoch) and, 76–78

  Comyn (lord of Badenoch) murdered by, 77, 81, 101

  coronation of, 78

  death of, 252–53

  Declaration of Arbroath and, 191

  Douglas and, 101–5, 176

  Edward II and, 107, 111–21, 122, 173, 191, 194, 227, 233, 250

  Elizabeth de Burgh’s marriage to, 66–67

  Isabella and, 240, 241

  Wallace and, 76

  Bruce, Robert, lord of Annandale (son of the Competitor), 45, 48, 51–52, 55, 58

  Bruce, Robert, the Competitor, 43–44, 45, 48, 104

  Brus, Le (Barbour), 76, 77, 81, 101–2, 111, 118, 209

  Bruges Matin, 69

  Buchan, John Comyn, earl of, 39, 46, 54, 66, 103

  Burgundy, 171, 218

  Burns, Robert, 120, 255

  Burton, Thomas, 79

  Bury St. Edmunds, 149

  Caerphilly Castle, 128, 244–45

  Cambridge Economic History of Europe, 97

  cannibalism, 135–36, 231

  Capitulation of Irvine, 52, 66

  carbon dioxide (CO2), 137, 257

  Carolingian Empire, 32, 215

  division of, 67, 170–71, 217, 227

  Catholic Church, 3, 62–63, 151, 167, 169, 217, 237

  Crusades, 168–69, 192, 221, 252

  papacy, see papacy

  cattle, 143, 155–57, 159, 180, 210

  oxen, 186–87, 190, 209

  plagues of (murrains), 184–87, 190, 199, 209, 220

  Cauche, Margot, 205

  cavalry, 26, 27, 47, 57–58, 70, 86, 112n, 114, 118, 181, 209

  charity, 203

  Charlemagne, 20, 26, 27, 32n, 35, 67, 215, 217, 220n

  division of empire of, 67, 170–71, 217, 227

  Charles III, King, 20

  Charles IV, King, 171, 172, 233–34, 238–39, 255

  Charles V, King, 164, 181–82

  Charter of the Forest, 56n, 108

  cheese, 152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 174, 224

  China, 131, 133, 135, 258

  Christendom, 62, 65, 167, 168, 217

  Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis, The, 123

  Chronicle of Jean Froissart, 245–46

  Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite, 130

  Chronicle of Lanercost, The, 37, 42, 53–54, 105, 109, 139, 178, 190, 211

  Chronicle of Sigismund Rositz, 225

  Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 136–37

  Chronographia regum francorum, 179

  Cistercians, 62, 152, 163, 226

  cities and towns, 200–202, 204

  Clark, Gregory, 100

  Clement V, Pope, 80, 107, 166–67, 169, 170, 219, 230

  death of, 170n

  Clifford, Robert de, 47, 51, 52, 105, 206

  climate, 5, 9, 63–64, 136

  conveyor belts of (map), 14

  climate change, 36, 136, 137–38, 257

  ice ages, 9, 137

  man-made, 12, 138n

  Medieval Warm Period, see Medieval Warm Period

  Cluniac order, 62

  Cnut the Great, 20n, 21

  Comyn, John (son of John Comyn, lord of Badenoch), 111, 119

  Comyn, John, earl of Buchan, see Buchan, John Comyn, earl of

  Comyn, John, lord of Badenoch, see Badenoch, John Comyn, lord of

  Confirmation of the Charters, 56

  Constantine, Emperor, 214

  Constantinople, 214

  cottagers (bordars), 33, 126

  Courtrai, Battle of (Battle of the Golden Spurs), 69–71, 86, 113–14, 119, 161, 162, 229

  Cressingham, Hugh de, 49, 53–54, 57

  crime, 134–36

  Cromwell, Oliver, 255

  Crusades, 168–69, 192, 221, 252

  “Curse Upon Edward, The” (Gray), 250

  Dafydd ap Gruffydd, 74–75

  d’Amory, Roger, 177

  Dampierre, Guy de, 68, 69

  Dante Alighieri, 166n, 219

  d’Argentan, Giles, 111

  d’Aulnay, Gautier, 171–72

  d’Aulnay, Philippe, 171–72

  David I, King, 36, 39, 43–44

  de Audley, Hugh, 177–78

  de Burgh, Richard, 66

  de Charny, Geoffroi, 113, 169–70

  Declaration of Arbroath, 191, 193, 227n

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 8, 27

  Delbrück, Hans, 228

  demesne, 31, 82

  de Molay, Jacques, 168–70

  De Monarchia (Dante), 219

  de Monthermer, Ralph, 77

  de Moravia, David, 78

  De Mortibus Bovum (Endelechius), 184

  dependencies, 31

  de Reading, Robert, 79

  de Soulis, John, 61–62, 64

  Despenser, Hugh, the Elder, 178, 194, 195, 205, 206n, 207, 208, 235–36, 240–44

  execution of, 244

  Despenser, Hugh, the Younger, 178–79, 182, 188–89, 190, 192, 194–95, 205, 206n, 207, 208, 211, 235–36, 238–45

  execution of, 245–46

  Díaz de Gómez, Gutierre, 113

  diets, 153–58

  strange, 159

  see also food

  disease, infectious, 159–60, 225

  Distant Mirror, A (Tuchman), 77, 256

  Divine Comedy (Dante), 166n

  Domesday Book, 33, 82, 126, 149

  Douglas, James, 101–5, 109–10, 111, 118, 122, 139, 176, 181, 188–90, 205, 210–11 248–49, 251–53, 254

  Douglas, William, 47, 51, 52, 101, 181

  droughts, 122, 132, 141, 150, 196, 258

  Dubois, Pierre, 121

  Dumas, Alexandre, 172

  Dun, Thomas, 175

  Dunheved, Stephen, 249

  Dunheved, Thomas, 249

  East Greenland Current, 16

  Edinburgh Castle, 110

  Edward I, King (Edward Longshanks), 4, 39–53, 55–58, 60, 61, 63–68, 71–77, 80–81, 84, 88, 90–94, 101, 126, 175, 178, 181, 183, 212, 219, 250n

  death of, 87, 88, 91, 103

  relationship with son, 78–80, 88

  at Stirling Castle, 73–74, 76, 109, 128

  Wallace and, 74–75

  wool tax and, 198–99

  Edward II, King, 71–73, 81, 87, 91, 101, 104, 106, 108–9, 122, 128, 139–40, 158, 173–74, 182, 207–8, 210–11, 220, 233–35, 238–51

  abdication of, 246–48

  armies and, 173

  banishment of, 79, 80

  at Bannockburn, 112–21

  birth of, 72

  Bruce and, 107, 111–21, 122, 173, 191, 194, 227, 23
3, 250

  Charles IV and, 233–34, 238–39

  coronation of, 91–92, 93

  death of, 249–50

  Despensers exiled by, 195

  Despensers recalled by, 205, 207, 208

  expenses of, 72–73

  in France, 166, 171

  Gaveston and, 79, 80, 88–96, 104, 183, 189, 195, 210

  Gaveston’s murder and, 96, 107, 108, 165, 195, 207

  Great Famine and, 128, 142, 173, 174, 176, 183, 187, 250–51

  hobbies of, 73, 120

  Holy Oil pursued by, 182

  imprisonment of, 245, 246, 248, 249

  Isabella’s marriage to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 17, 20, 71, 80, 89, 90–91

  John of Powderham and, 182–83

  knighting of, 81

  Lancaster sentenced by, 206–7

  nobility and, 92–95

  Ordinances of 1311 and, 95, 105, 107–8, 111, 128, 138, 207

  Philip V and, 192–94

  piracy and, 175

  psalter commissioned by, 176, 184

  relationship with father, 78–80, 88

  rents and, 202

  at Saint Albans, 142, 150

  in Scotland campaigns, 81, 103, 104–5, 107, 111–21

  taxes imposed by, 108, 138, 139

  Edward III, King, 4, 171, 188, 239, 241, 244, 247–49, 251, 252, 254, 255, 256

  birth of, 165

  coronation of, 247

  Edward the Confessor, 21, 23, 33, 91

  Egypt, 129–30, 133, 222

  Eleanor de Clare, 178, 235

  Eleanor of Aquitaine, 35

  Eleanor of Castile, 72, 88, 90

  Elizabeth I, Queen, 254

  Elizabeth de Burgh, 66–67, 251

  Elizabeth de Clare, 154n, 177

  El Niño, 132

  Endelechius, Severus Sanctus, 184

  England, 60, 168, 218

  expulsion of Jews from, 46

  financial crisis in, 175

  France and, 40, 44–45, 67, 71, 108, 238

  in Hundred Years’ War, 256

  in Medieval Warm Period (map), 41

  Model Parliament of, 94

  Norman Conquest of, 21–28, 29, 31, 35, 38

  population growth in, 17

  Scotland and, 4–5, 35–58, 60–62, 64–67, 71, 73–75, 78, 80–81, 85–87, 101–6, 107–21, 139–40, 188–91, 198–99, 208–11, 238, 241, 242, 248, 251, 254–55

  ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation), 132

  epizootics, 186

  Eric II, King, 223

  Erik II, King, 37–38, 40

  Erik the Red, 13–16, 17, 19, 224

  Espilleet, Jacquette, 205

  Exodus, 4, 43, 184

 

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