William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

by F. M. Stenton

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]
• Cluny[Cluny], 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]

F

• Fagadun, [334]
• Falaise, [63], [78], [121]
• Falkirk, [350]
• Feasts, [409]
• Fécamp, [39], [71], [76], [245], [401]
• —— council at, [70], [71]
• Feigned flight at Hastings, [203]-205
• Fenland, [288]
• Feudal rights, [34]
• Feudum, [32]
• Five Boroughs, [7]
• —— assessment of, [472], [473]
• Flanders, county of, [27], [38], [52], [108], [109], [141], [160], [305]-307
• —— volunteers from, [168]
• —— visited by Robert Curthose, [346], [348]
• —— see [Baldwin V]. and [VI.], [Robert], [Arnulf], counts of.
• Flat Holme, the, [258]
• Fleet, the English, [173], [174], [178]
• —— the Norman, [165]-168
• Fresnay, castle of, [312], [313], [360]
• Fulford, battle of, [177]
• Fulk the Lame, [167]
• Fulk Nerra, count of Anjou, [71]-89
• Fulk le Rechin, count of Anjou, [127], [304], [308], [312]-315
• Fyrd, the English, [255], [323], [333], [341], [445], [454], [455]