The Normans; told chiefly in relation to their conquest of England

by Sarah Orne Jewett

[Pg367] [TOC], [INDX]

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INDEX.

• A
• Adela, [112]
• Ælfred, the Confessor's brother, [184], [188]
• Ælfred the Great, [103], [171]; fines, [173]
• Ælfgifu, see Emma of Normandy
• Æthelred the Unready, [102], [171];
  • English contempt for, [175];
  • flees to Normandy, [177]
• Alan of Brittany, [70], [126], [137];
  • death of, [151]
• Alençon, siege of, [213];
  • Lord of, see William de Talvas
• Ambrières, [250]
• Anglo-Saxons, [106], [365]
• Anjou, [358]
• Anselm, [238], [338], [349]
• Apulia, [131], [139];
  • allegiance to Rome, [140]
• Architecture, [239], [240]
• Argentan, [97]
• Arlette, [122]
• Arnulf of Flanders, [63], [71], [87]
• Arrows, [252], [307]
• Ascelin, [340]
• Aumale, [248]
• Auxerre, [108]
• Aversa, [133], [139]
• Avranches, [248]
• B
• Baldwin of Flanders, [121]
• Battle, [304]
• Baudri, [340]
• Bayeux, Northmen in, [40], [59];
  • Richard the Fearless educated in, [62];
  • description of, [323]
• Bayeux tapestry, [238], [299], [323]
• Beaumont, house of, [152], [198], [282]
• Bec, abbey of, [219]
• Benedictines, [222]
• Berengarius, [230]
• Berenger, Count of Bayeux, [40]
• Bergen, [14], [291]
• Bernard the Dane, [60], [61], [75]
• Bernard Harcourt, [68]
• Bernard de Senlis, [59], [61];
  • plot of, [76]
• Bertha, wife of Robert of France, [100]
• Bessin, [247]
• Blaatand Harold, [81]
• Borbillon, [210]
• Botho the Dane, [47], [60], [75]
• Breteuil, castle of, [250]
• Brionne, [224]
• Brittany, [58];
  • Danish settlements in, [61];
  • enmity between Normandy and, [76];
  • tributary to Normandy, [246];
  • William's expedition against, [265];
  • aids William, [285]
• Bruce, Robert, [233]
• Burgundy, [54], [246];
  • king of, [86];
  • Henry of, [106]
• Burneville, [224]
• C
• Caen, [113];
  • William builds Church of St. Stephen in, [237]; [298], [321], [322], [340]
• Canterbury, archbishop of, [176]
• Carloman, [85]
• Carlyle, [360]
• Cathedrals, [219]
• Celts, [172]
• Chalons, Hugh, Count of, [108], [110]
• Charlemagne, [11], [19];
  • empire of, [34], [52], [88]
• Charles the Fat, [54], [56]
• Charles the Simple, [34];
  • resists Rolf's invasion, [37];
  • captivity of, [56]
• Chartres, Count of, [38];
  • siege of, [41], [109]
• Chivalry, Norman, [93], [116]
• Civitella, battle of, [140], [141]
• Cloister life, [215]
• Cnut the Dane, [106], [119];
  • banishment of English nobles, [120];
  • chosen king, [177];
  • his improvement and England's, [178];
  • pilgrimage to Rome, [182];
  • letter of, [182];
  • death, [183]
• Côtentin, [103], [113];
  • castles of, [116];
  • over-population of, [116];
  • home of the Hautevilles, [134];
  • rebellions, [152], [202];
  • designs of Henry of France toward, [247];
  • men at Hastings, [306];
  • sold by Robert of Normandy, [348]
• Coutances, bishop of, [304]
• Crusades, [143], [351]
• Curfew bell, [251]
• D
• Danegelt, the, [173]
• Danes in Bayeux, [74];
  • in England, [103];
  • inheritance from, in Northern England, [187];
  • schemes for regaining England, [258]
• Dante, [362]
• Dickens' "Child's History of England," [328]
• Dinan, [266]
• Dive, river, [297]
• Dôl, [110], [266]
• Domesday Book, [328]
• Douglas, Scottish family of, [233]
• Drayton, [28]
• Dreux, county of, [109]
• Dunstan, [172]
• Durham, [339]
• E
• Eadgyth (or Edith), the Confessor's wife, [188], [270]
• Eadgyth the Swan-throated, [310]
• Eadmund Ironside, [104], [177];
  • poisoned, [178]
• Eadward the Confessor, [184];
  • pious character of, [186];
  • weakness of, [188], [240];
  • likeness to Æthelred, [189];
  • preference for Normans, [191];
  • promises the crown to William, [242];
  • also to Harold, [257];
  • illness and death, [269];
  • love of hunting, [329]
• Eadward the Outlaw, [257]
• Eadwine, Earl of Mercia, [320]
• Eadwy, [180]
• Emma of Normandy (or Ælfgifu), [102];
  • marriage to Æthelred, [105];
  • flight to Normandy of, [106];
  • sons of, [118];
  • marries Cnut of England, [180]
• England, Danes in, [103];
  • low condition of, [106];
  • under misrule of Æthelred, [173];
  • election of kings in, [179];
  • same king as Denmark and Scandinavia, [181];
  • under Cnut, [181];
  • behind Norman civilization, [185];
  • division into earldoms, [187];
  • building of castles in, [193];
  • conquest of, planned in Normandy, [240];
  • Harold made king, [272];
  • conquest of, by William, [308];
  • English character, [365]
• Epte, St. Claire on, [44]
• Eremburga, [145]
• Ericson, Leif, [18]
• Ermenoldus, [113]
• Espriota, [66];
  • second marriage, [80], [96], [152]
• Estrith, [121], [123]
• Eu, [236]
• Eustace of Boulogne, [285]
• Evreux, [40]
• Exeter, siege of, [325]
• Exmes, [97], [111], [113]
• F
• Falaise, [92];
  • industries of, [97];
  • Robert in, [121];
  • the Conqueror in, [197]
• Fécamp, [89], [111], [303]
• Feudal system, [54], [154];
  • in England, [316]
• Fitz-Osbern; see William Fitz-Osbern.
• Flails used as weapons, [76]
• Flanders, Baldwin of, [121]
• Flanders, civilization of, [232];
  • aids William, [285]
• Fleming, Scottish families of, [233]
• Forests, Norman, [95];
  • English, [330]
• France, [54], [361]
• Franks, [55], [361]
• Freeman's (E. A.) History of the Norman Conquest, [190], [205], [224], [225], [280], [286], [355], [359]
• Froissart, [323]
• Fulbert the Tanner, [122]
• G
• Gaul, [20]
• Geirrid the Norsewoman, [7]
• Geoffrey Martel, [250];
  • dies, [252]
• Geoffrey Plantagenet, [358]
• Gerberga, [72];
  • courage of, [82]-[85]
• Gerberoi, [334], [337]
• Germany, [54];
  • sympathy for Louis Outremer, [83], [361]
• Gisla, [43]
• Godfrey of Brittany, [101]
• Godiva, Lady, [188]
• Godwine, Earl of Wessex, [184];
  • character and gifts, [188];
  • a king-maker, [188];
  • influence in England and banishment, [192];
  • returns, [244];
  • remembrance of, in England, [315]
• Golet the Fool, [199]
• Gorm of Denmark, [30], [81]
• Gottfried, [19]
• Grantmesnil, [198]
• Greece, typical characters of, [365]
• Greenland, [16], [18]
• Gregory VII., (or Hildebrand), [279], [285], [298]
• Grimbald of Plessis, [202];
  • imprisonment of, [212]
• Guizot's history of France, [159]
• Guy of Burgundy, [199];
  • pretends to the ducal crown, [200];
  • beaten at Val-ès-dunes, [210]
• Gyda, [30]
• Gytha, Godwine's wife, [192]
• Gyrth, son of Godwine, [303]
• H
• Haarfager, Harold, [15];
  • kingdom and marriage, [30];
  • tyrannies of, [32]
• Haman of Thorigny, [202]
• Harold Blaatand [81], [82]
• Harold Hardrada, [288], [290], [294]
• Harold, son of Godwine, [192];
  • in Ireland, [242];
  • in Normandy, [253];
  • desires to succeed Eadward, [256];
  • shipwrecked in Ponthieu, [260];
  • received by William of Normandy, and visits him, [264];
  • at Mt. St. Michel, [265];
  • promises to marry one of William's daughters, [267];
  • oath on the relics, [267];
  • again in Normandy, [267];
  • made king of England, [272];
  • battle of Hastings, [300]
• Ha Rou, [49]
• Harthacnut, [170];
  • becomes king, [183];
  • dies, [184]
• Hasting the pirate, [38];
  • Italian robberies, [130]-[144]
• Hastings, battle of, [299]
• Hauteville, Drogo of, [138]
• Hauteville, Humbert of, [141]
• Hauteville, Humphrey of, [138]
• Hauteville, Roger of, [143]
• Hauteville, Serlon of, [136];
  • bravery of, [138], [141]
• Hauteville, Tancred of, [132], [135], [141]
• Hauteville, William of, president of Apulia, [139]
• Hautevilles, Family of the, [236]
• Hebrides, [2], [29], [50]
• Henry Beauclerc, [327];
  • his father's legacy, [339], [348];
  • seizes the English crown, [354];
  • death of his son, [357]
• Henry of Burgundy, [137]
• Henry of France, [197], [199];
  • William's enemy, [202];
  • Godwine's partisan, [244]
• Herleva (or Arlette), [122]
• Herluin of Bec, [223];
  • becomes prior, [224]
• Herluin of Montreuil, [81]
• Hildebrand, archdeacon, see Gregory VII.
• Hugh Capet, [63], [88], [98]
• Hugh the Great, Count of Paris, [56], [63], [153]
• I
• Iceland, colonization of, [16], [32];
  • expedition to England from, [291];
  • literature, [32], [92], [362]
• Italy, [54]
• J
• Jersey, island of, [93]
• Jerusalem, Robert's pilgrimage to, [126]
• Jumièges, [35]
• K
• Kent, [288], [290]
• Knighthood, [156];
  • oaths of, [161]
• L
• Land-holding, Norman system of, [46]
• Lanfranc, [219], [226];
  • met by pilgrims, [231];
  • brings about William's marriage, [237];
  • William's ally, [279];
  • Bishop of Canterbury, [320]
• Laon, castle of, [72]
• Leo, Pope of Rome, [235], [236]
• Leofric, [188];
  • grandsons of, [258]
• Leslies, Scottish family of, [233]
• Lillebonne, [282]
• Lisieux, [247], [252]
• Lisle, Baldwin de, [233]
• London, [177], [192], [302]
• Long Serpent, [12]
• Longsword, see William Longsword.
• Lorraine, [54]
• Lothair, [86]
• Louis Outremer, [71];
  • in Rouen, [77];
  • loses the battle with Normandy, [82];
  • death of, [86]
• M
• Maine, Count of, [280]
• Malcolm, [288]
• Mantes, [337]
• Matilda of Flanders, [233];
  • marries William of Normandy, [237];
  • builds Church of the Holy Trinity in Caen, [238];
  • influence in Normandy, [245];
  • gives William a ship, [298];
  • rules Normandy in his absence, [325];
  • favors her son Robert, [334];
  • dies, [335]
• Mauger, [90];
  • Archbishop of Rouen, [112], [124];
  • opposition to William and Matilda's marriage, [236];
  • dismissal of, by William, [251]
• Mauritius, [238]
• Mercia, [187]
• Michael, Emperor of Constantinople, [128]
• Mirmande, [111]
• Monasticism, [215];
  • value of, to Normandy, [230]
• Montgomery, house of, [152]
• Morkere, [288], [320]
• Mortain, Count of, [282]
• Mortemer, battle of, [248]
• Mount St. Michel, [265]
• N
• Navarre, [54]
• Neal of St. Saviour, [201];
  • at Val-ès-dunes, [208];
  • goes to Brittany, [202];
  • at Hastings, [306]
• Neustria, [35], [79]
• Normandy, Rolf's voyage to, [29], [34];
  • formerly called Neustria, [35];
  • independence of, [44];
  • division of, [46];
  • improvement of, [47];
  • loyalty to France, [57];
  • relations with France, [60];
  • holds its own against Louis Outremer, [82];
  • first money coined in, [84];
  • the Norman character, [91];
  • manufactures of, [92];
  • chivalry in, [93];
  • attacked by Æthelred, [103];
  • changes in, [115];
  • Christianity in, [118];
  • social progress of, [132];
  • colonies in Southern Italy, [133];
  • feudalism in, [153];
  • knighthood of, [156];
  • churches of, [168];
  • plague in, [169];
  • Æthelred escapes to, [177];
  • state of religion in, [217];
  • architecture, [239], [240];
  • enmity between Flanders and, [245];
  • victory at Mortemer, [248];
  • craftiness of, [250];
  • victory at Varaville, [252];
  • Harold in, [268];
  • governed by William and Lanfranc, [279];
  • preparation for war in, [295];
  • wins the battle of Hastings, [300];
  • influence of Norman character, [356]-[360]
• Norman women, [323], [326]
• Northmen, voyages of, [4];
  • literature of, [9];
  • arts of the, [11];
  • ship-building of, [12];
  • in Bayeux, [59]
• Norway, coast of, [1];
  • metals in, [4];
  • home-life in, [6];
  • reputation of, [9];
  • ships of, [12]-[14];
  • colonies of, [19];
  • women in, [23];
  • pirates, [26];
  • Haarfager's government of, [30]
• O
• Odo of Bayeux, [282], [304], [323];
  • made Earl of Kent, [324];
  • Italian plot, [336];
  • release from prison, [339];
  • plots of, [347]
• Odo of France, [247]
• Olaf of Norway, [109], [175]
• Ordericus Vitalis, chronicle of, [334], [337]
• Orkneys, [1], [30], [293]
• Oslac, [60]
• Osmond de Centeville, [72]
• Otho William, [107]
• Otto of Germany, [86]
• P
• Palermo, [146]
• Palgrave, Sir Francis, [89], [91]
• Paris, plundering of, [19], [40];
  • borders of Normandy near, [125]
• Pavia, Lanfranc born in, [226]
• Peasantry, Norman, [93];
  • complaint of, [95];
  • parliament of and commune, [96];
  • in England, [330]
• Peter the Hermit, [351]
• Pevensey, [299]
• Philip, King of France, [337]
• Poictiers, [246]
• Ponthieu, [246];
  • Harold shipwrecked in, [260];
  • William's ships sail for, [297]
• Popa, [43], [45], [60]
• Pyrenees, [246]
• Q
• Quevilly, [275]
• R
• Ragnar Lodbrok, [25]
• Rainulf of Ferrières, [68]
• Ralph Flambard, [349]
• Ralph of Tesson, [206]
• Ralph of Toesny, [249]
• Randolph of Bayeux, [202]
• Raoul of Ivry, [96];
  • against the peasants, [97], [98]
• Ravens, black, [15]
• Renaud, [110]
• Richard of Evreux, [282]
• Richard the Fearless, [62];
  • boyhood of, [66];
  • made duke, [68];
  • sent to Laon, [71];
  • charters of, [84];
  • death of, [89]
• Richard the Good, [90];
  • character of, [92];
  • unruly subjects of, [96];
  • first peer of France, [99];
  • marriage of, [101];
  • war with Burgundy, [106];
  • war with Dreux, [108];
  • death at Fécamp, [111]
• Richard the Third Duke, [110];
  • becomes duke, [112];
  • is poisoned, [113]
• Robert Curt-hose, [333];
  • inherits Normandy, [339], [345];
  • his character, [350];
  • goes on pilgrimage, [351];
  • imprisonment, [357]
• Robert of Eu, [282]
• Robert of France, [98];
  • wit of, [99]
• Robert Guiscard, [134];
  • reaches Amalfi, [141];
  • becomes duke, [142]
• Robert of Jumièges, [193]
• Robert the Magnificent, [112];
  • bad name of, [114];
  • enemy of England, [118];
  • marries the tanner's daughter, [122];
  • goes on pilgrimage, [125];
  • dies, [129]
• Robert the Staller, [273], [300]
• Roger of Beaumont, [282], [322]
• Roger of Toesny, [195];
  • colony in Spain, [196]
• Rögnwald, Jarl, of Möre, [31], [44]
• Rolf Ganger, ships, [29];
  • profession, [32];
  • siege of Rouen, [35];
  • good government, [41];
  • made duke, [42];
  • christened, [45];
  • married Gisla, [45];
  • death, [50];
  • tomb at Rouen, typical character, [53];
  • tower in Rouen, [78];
  • hall in Rouen, [121];
  • Cnut's likeness to, [157], [278], [282], [306]
• Romance language, [55]
• Roman de Rou, [94], [112], [204], [209], [267], [340]
• Roman roads, [92]
• Rome, Church of, [118]
• Rouen, [20];
  • siege of, [35];
  • Rolf's wedding in, [45];
  • Rolf's palace in, [50];
  • Richard the Fearless' coronation in, [69];
  • ruins in, [86];
  • reception of William and Matilda in, [236]
• Rudolph of Burgundy, [57]
• Rye, castle of, [200]
• S
• Sagamen, [8]
• Sandwich, [288]
• Salle, [212]
• Sanglac, battle of, [104]
• Saxons, [287]
• Scandinavian peninsula, [1]-[3]
• Sea-kings, [9]
• Senlac, [304], [309]
• Shakespeare, [91]
• Sicily, [131], [139];
  • Norman ruins in, [145];
  • aids William, [285];
  • crusades of, [350]
• Siward of Northumberland, [258]
• Slavery, William's suppression of, [332]
• Spain, [20], [25], [306]
• Sperling, [80], [152]
• Stamford Bridge, battle of, [293], [298], [305]
• Stephen of Blois, [358]
• Stephen of Boulogne, [358]
• Stigand, [273]
• St. Michel's Mount, [101]
• Sturlesson, Snorro, [28]
• St. Valery, [297]
• Sussex, [288], [290], [299]
• Swegen, King of Denmark, [175]
• T
• Taillefer the minstrel, [306]
• Taxes, [352]
• Tennyson, Lord, [28]
• Terra Regis, [318]
• Thurkill the sacristan, [303]
• Tillières, [109];
  • siege of, [136];
  • castle of, [250]
• Tostig, [287], [292]
• Truce of God, [165]
• Turf-Einar, [32]
• V
• Val-ès-dunes, battle of, [205];
  • changes since, [247]
• Valmeray, [205]
• Valognes, William's escape from, [199]
• Varaville, battle of, [251]
• Vaudreuil, [152]
• Venerable Bede, the, [218]
• Venosa (tomb of the Hautevilles), [146]
• Vermandois, Count of, [56];
  • death of, [63]
• Vexin, district of the, [125], [337], [348]
• Vigr, island of, [29]
• Vikings, [9], [366]
• Vinland, [18]
• W
• Wace, Master, [112], see Roman de Rou.
• Walter Giffard, [282]
• Walter Tyrrel, [353]
• Waltham, abbey of, [254], [303]
• Waltheof, [320]
• Westminster, [191], [269], [302], [311], [314], [353]
• Wight, isle of, [288];
  • Odo's rendezvous in, [336]
• William the Conqueror, [104], [114];
  • father of, [116];
  • mother of, [122];
  • homage of barons to, [126];
  • typical character of, [149];
  • purity of life, [167];
  • Roger of Toesny an enemy to, [196];
  • Guy of Burgundy's rebellion, [199];
  • not a man of blood in a certain sense, [211];
  • mastery in Normandy, [213];
  • revenge upon Alençon, [214];
  • meets Lanfranc, [229];
  • marries Matilda, [237];
  • goes to England, [242];
  • receives news of Harold's shipwreck, [260];
  • at Chateau d'Eu, [264];
  • hears of Harold's coronation, [275];
  • embassy to Harold, [280];
  • council at Lillebonne, [282];
  • at Hastings, [299];
  • march to London, [313];
  • coronation at Westminster, [314];
  • government of England, [316];
  • returns to Normandy in triumph, [321];
  • at Mantes, [337];
  • last illness and death, [337]
• William Fitz-Osbern, [250];
  • at Rouen palace, [262];
  • at Quevilly, [277], [282];
  • at Lillebonne, [284];
  • made Count of Hereford, [324]
• William of Jumièges, [112]
• William Longsword, his youth, [43];
  • education of, [56];
  • his wife, [56];
  • lands in Brittany, [58];
  • politics of, [60];
  • government of, [62];
  • death, [63];
  • character of, [64];
  • lingering enmity toward Flanders caused by his murder, [245]
• William Malet, [310]
• William of Malmesbury, [331]
• William Rufus, [338];
  • inherits the English crown, [339];
  • goes to England, [345];
  • is murdered, [353];
  • is buried at Winchester, [353]
• William, son of Richard the Fearless, [97]
• William de Talvas, [124];
  • the bastard's enemy, [152];
  • rebels against William, [213]
• William of Warren, [282]
• Witanagemôt, [270], [275], [280], [317], [353]
• Women of Normandy, [101], [323], [326]
• Y
• Yonge, Miss (Story of The Little Duke), [85]
• York, [292]

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