Chronicle of the Kings of England/Index

by William of Malmesbury

INDEX.

---

Adultery, punished in Old Saxony, 74.
Ælla founds the kingdom of Sussex, 92.
Aimar, bishop of Puy, 363, 365.
Alcuin, 62; his epistles, 66, 79, 84.
Aldhelm, abbat of Malmesbury, 29; made bishop of Sherborne, 35.
Aldred, abp. of York, crowns William I, 281.
Aldrey, William de, account of, 340.
Alexander, bp. of Lincoln, imprisoned, 500.
Alexius I, emperor of Constantinople, 365.
Alfwold, king of Northumbria, 68.
Alfred, king of England, anointed by pope Leo, 99; ascends the throne, 113; retires to Athelney, ib.; assumes the garb of a minstrel, 114; routs the Danes, 116; his personal bravery, 117; his children, ib.; founds various monasteries, 118; his love of literature, ib.; dies, 121.
Alfred, the son of Ethelred, 207.
Alfrid, king of Northumbria, 52.
Alla, king of Northumbria, 41.
Almodis, countess of Toulouse, 416.
Ambrosius, monarch of Britain, 11.
Analaf, 129, 136; created king by the Northumbrians, 141.
Angles and Saxons invited from Germany, 7; arrive in Britain, 8.
Angle-School at Rome, 99.
Anjou, earls of, account of, 265.
Anjou, Geoffrey earl of, account of, 261.
Anlaf, king of Norway, baptized, 168.
Anselm, abp. of Canterbury, quits the kingdom, 338; recalled, 428; his contest with king Henry, 448.
Anschetil, a Norman nobleman, 144.
Antioch, description and siege of, 378—382.
Aoxianus, governor of Antioch, 379, 381.
Arbrisil, Robert de, account of, 471.
Architecture, new style of at Westminster, 55; at Salisbury and Malmesbury, 442.
Armorica or Bretagne, British settlement of, 6.
Arthur assists Ambrosius, 11; his sepulchre never found, 315.
Asia Minor, its ancient fruitfulness, 377.
Ass, a man transformed into one, 180.
Asser, bishop of Sherborne, account of, 118.
Assingdon, consecration of church at, 198.
Athelard, abp of Canterbury, 82.
Athelstan, king of Mercia, 128—140.
Athelwold, the confidant of Edgar, 159.
Augustine, St., converts the king of Kent to Christianity, 12, 26. See Joscelyn.
Azotus, siege of, 405.

Babylon in Egypt, formerly Taphnis, 390.
Badon, Mount, siege of, 11.
Bayeux, city of, burned, 433.
Baldred, king of Kent, 17; expelled, 96.
Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem, 395—412.
Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, 412.
Baldwin, earl of Flanders, 206.
Balista, what, 380.
Ballads, ancient historical, 138, 148, 315.
Balso the Short, story of, 145.
Bangor, monastery of, 44.
Battles at Aylesford, 194; Antioch, 382 Ascalon, 391; Assingdon, 194; Bensington, 38; Bruneford or Brumby, 129; Degstan, 43; Dol, 291; Eschendun, 111; Gerborai, 291; Hastings, 257, 276, 280; Hellendun, 96; Penn, near Gillingham, 193; Sceorstan, ib.; Standford-bridge, 256; Tenersebray, 433; Walesdun, 260; Witgeomesbrug, 20; Wodensdike, 19.
Battle abbey, founded by William I, 300.
Bede, Venerable, 3, 54, 56, 59.
Belesme, Robert de, 430, 433.
Benedict Biscop, founder of Wearmouth, 54.
Benignus, St. 25; his epitaph, ib.
Berefreid, what, 388.
Berengar of Tours, account of 311.
Bernard, abbat of Tyron, account of, 471.
Bernard, the monk, 385.
Bernicia, kingdom of, 46.
Bernulph, king of Mercia, 87, 96.
Berthwulf, king of Mercia, expelled, 88.
Bertric, king of Wessex, 40; expels Egbert, 95; poisoned, 106.
Bethlehem, church of St. Mary, at 383.
Bezants, money so called, 372, 406.
Bishopries, extinct or consolidated, 78. Extent of, 92; removal of, 78, 352; precedence of, 22.
Bishops, seven, story of, 127, 128.
Blois, Theobald earl of, 438.
Blois, Henry de, bishop of Winton, and legate, 501; his treaty with the empress Maud, 517; holds a council at Winton, 518; his quarrel with the empress, 523.
Blois, Stephen earl of, joins the crusade 366, 408; killed at Ramula, 410.
Blood, its physical effects, 361; shower of, 67.
Boamund, his design in urging the crusade, 356, 365; account of, 413.
Boniface, archbishop of Mentz, 73.
Boy, Jewish, legendary story of, 314.
Bracelets exposed by Alfred on highways, 118.
Briget, St. 25.
Britons, avarice and rapine of, 67.
Britons, western, or Cornwallish, 134.
Brithwin, bishop of Wilton, 247.
Burgundy, Stephen earl of, 408. Killed at Ramula, 410.
Burhred, king of Mercia, 88.

Cadwalla, king of the Britons, 46.
Cædwalla, king of Wessex, 16. Baptized, and called Peter, 31.
Caerleon, or Chester, 43.
Cæsarea, siege of, 405.
Cæsar, Julius, subdues Britain, 5.
Calixtus II, pope, his letter on reducing Sutri, 466; accommodation with the emperor Henry V, 467.
Calne, remarkable accident at, 163.
Canons, secular, expelled Winchester, 149, Attempt to recover their monasteries, 162.
Canterbury, see of, attempt to remove it to Lichfield, 78; controversy with see of York, 319.
Canterbury, city of, burnt, 16. Dreadful outrage at, 218.
Canute, elected king by the Danes, 190; lands at Sandwich, 192; divides the kingdom with Edmund Ironside, 195; assumes the sovereignty of England, 196; conquers the Swedes and Norwegians, 198; his epistle from Rome, 199; his death, 205.
Caradoc of Lancarvon, his Life of Gildas, 22, note.
Ceawlin, king of Wessex, his character, 18.
Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria, 53; becomes a monk, 61.
Centuries, or hundreds, instituted, 117.
Cenric, king of Wessex, his character, 18.
Ceolfrid, abbat of Wearmouth, 51, 55.
Ceols, vessels so called, described, 8, 18.
Cerdic, founds the kingdom of Wessex, 17.
Charles the Great (Charlemagne), 65, 85.
Charles the Bald, king of France, 125.
Charles the Simple, king of France, 124.
Charles the Fat, king of France, 102.
Charters, Ethelbald's, 76. Ethelwulf's, 107. Edmund's, to Glastonbury, 141. Edgar's, to Glastonbury, 151. To Malmesbury, 155; Canute's, to Glastonbury, 203. Stephen's, 493.
Chartres, siege of, 125. Church of, 204.
Chasuble, meaning of, 473, note.
Chester, reduced by Edward the elder, 131.
Chorges, bishop of, account of, 414, 417.
Christianity, introduced into Mercia, 71.
Chronicle, Saxon, 3, 30, 39, 98.
Churchyards, privileges of, 492, note.
Circscet, what, 202.
Cissa, king of Sussex, 92, note.
Cistertian order, origin of, 347; observances of, 349.
Clergy, vanity of their dress condemned, 76.
Clerks, two, at Nantes, story of, 268.
Clermont, council of, its enactments, 356.
Clock, mechanical, 175.
Cologne, abp. of, his exemplary conduct, 183.
Comet, appearance of, 251, 343.
Complines, what, 350, note.
Constantine the Great, exhausts Britain, 6.
Constantine, elected emperor, and slain, 6.
Constantine, king of Scots, expelled his kingdom, 129; killed, 130.
Constantinople, described, 372. Its emperors, 374.
Corbaguath, or Corbanach, commander of the Persian forces, 381. His death, 421.
Councils, ecclesiastical, civil, &c. 76, 127, 163, 191, 311, 356, 462, 499, 501, 517, 525.
Court, licentiousness of Rufus's, 337.
Courtiers, their insolence to the clergy, 339.
Crida, king of Mercia, 70, note.
Cross, part of our Saviour's, 118, 136, 390, 411.
Crucifix, said to have spoken, 163. Celebrated one at Lucca, 332. At Winchester, 523.
Crusaders, march of, 364. Their extreme distress, 377. Their admirable conduct, 387—391.
Cuichelm, king of Wessex, 19, 20.
Cumberland, assigned to Malcolm, 141.
Curfew, supposed abolition of, 428, note.
Cuthbert, St. 52. Appears to Alfred, 113. His incorruption, 236.
Cuthburga, abbess of Wimborne, 35.
Cuthred, king of West Saxons, 57.
Cynegils, king of Wessex, account of, 20.
Cynewolf, king of West Saxons, 38.

Dancers and profane singers punished, 182.
Danes, invade England, 40, 96. Ravages of, 69, 112, 167. Butchered by Ethelred, 169. Exact tribute, 185.
Danube, the river, described, 374.
Daibert, abp. of Pisa, joins the Crusade, 397. Made patriarch of Jerusalem, 398.
Dalmatic, garment so called, what, 85.
Danfrunt, siege of, 263. Castle of, 436.
David, St., 26.
David, tower of, at Jerusalem described, 387.
David, king of Scotland, his character, 434.
Decennaries, or tithings instituted, 117.
Deira, province of, 42.
Den, a monastery so called, 466.
Denmark, succession of its kings, 292.
Devices, on armour or shields, 262, 469.
Devil, visible appearance of, 343.
Dionysius the Areopagite, 119.
Domesday-book, account of, 291.
Drinking by pegs, account of, 148.
Dunstan, abp. of Canterbury, 141, 167, 245.
Durham, privileges of the see of, 303.

Eadbert, king of Northumbria, 61—67.
Eadburga, daughter of Edward the Elder, 125, 244.
Eadburga, queen of Wessex, 106.
Eadbald, king of Kent, 13.
Eadbert Pren, king of Kent, 17, 87.
Eadgaring, meaning of, 64.
Eadmer, the historian, 3, note.
Ealstan, bishop of Sherborne, 106, 108.
Earls, their official honours, 496, note.
Earthquake, terrible, 342.
East Anglia, kingdom of, 68. Extent of, 92. Plundered by the Danes, 112. Account of, 240.
Ecclesiastics, their property seized at death, 494.
Eclipse, terrific, 488, 511.
Edan, king of Scots, 43.
Edessa, in Mesopotamia, described, 396.
Edgar, king of England, 147—162.
Edgar Etheling, son of Edward the Exile, 253. His character, 284.
Edgitha, wife of the Confessor, 216.
Edifices, stone, first builders of in England, 54.
Editha, daughter of Edgar, 161, 245.
Edmund, St. king of East Anglia, 89. Slain, 112. His incorruption, 236. His boundary, 242. Church built in honour of him, 198.
Edmund, king, 141. His death, 143.
Edmund Ironside, 191—195.
Edred, king of England, 145.
Edric, duke of Mercia, 169, 191, 197.
Edward the Elder, 122. His issue, 124. Education of his children, 125.
Edward the Martyr, 162—165.
Edward the Confessor, 213. Crowned at Winchester, 216. His character, 247. His predictions, 251. Dies, 253.
Edward the Exile comes to England, 253.
Edwin, king of Northumbria, 45.
Edwin, brother of Athelstan, 139.
Edwin, brother of Edmund Ironside, 196.
Edwin and Morcar, earls of Northumbria, 285.
Edwy, king of England, 145— 147.
Egbert, king of Kent, 15.
Egbert, archbishop of York, 61.
Egbert, king of Wessex, 94—97.
Egfert, king of Mercia, 86.
Egfrid, king of Northumbria, 51.
Eginhard, his life of Charlemagne, 64, note. Eisc, son of Hengist, king of Kent, 12.
Elbert, and Egelbright, 15, 237, 243.
Eleutherius, bishop of Rome, 21.
Elfred, the rival of king Athelstan, 128; His singular death, 137.
Elferius, destroys monasteries, 164, 165.
Elfgiva, concubine of king Edwy, 146.
Elfthrida, wife of king Edgar, 159, 161; Causes the murder of king Edward, 164.
Elmer, a monk, flies like Dædalus, 252.
Elphege, archbishop of Canterbury, 168; his body translated to Canterbury, 202; its incorruption, 236.
Elward, or Ethelwerd, abridger of the Saxon Chronicle, 3, note.
Ely, church of, made a cathedral, 476.
Emma queen of Ethelred, 187; her liberality to Winchester, 215; story of the ploughshares, ib. note.
England, divisions of, geographical and ecclesiastical, 91—93; oppressed state of after the conquest, 235, 253; its lamentable condition in the time of Stephen, 496, 509.
Erconbert, king of Kent, 14.
Ercongotha, St. 15, 242.
Erie, expelled the kingdom by Canute, 197.
Ermenhilda, St. 242.
Ethelbald, king of Mercia, 73—77.
Ethelbald, king of Wessex, 110.
Ethelbert, king of Kent, 12; his answer to Augustine, 14; converted to Christianity, ib.
Ethelbert, St. king of East-Anglia, killed, 78.
Ethelbert, king of Kent, Essex, &c. 110.
Ethelbert, son of Ermenred, murdered, 15, 237, 243.
Ethelburga, queen of Ina, her art, 36.
Etheldrida, St. her incorruption, 242.
Ethelfrid, king of Northumbria, 43.
Ethelnoth, archbishop of Canterbury, 203.
Ethelred, king of Mercia, 72.
Ethelred, son of Ermenred, murdered, 15, 237, 243.
Ethelred, or Ethelbert, king of Northumbria, 68.
Ethelred, king of Wessex, 111.
Ethelred II, king of England, 165, 186—193.
Ethelfleda, lady of the Mercians, 123.
Ethered, earl, governor of Mercia, 116.
Ethelric, king of Northumbria, 42.
Ethelwald opposes Edward the Elder, 123.
Ethelwalch, king of Sussex, 30.
Ethelwold, bishop of Winchester, 149.
Ethelwulf, king, 97; his grant of tithes, 98; marries Judith, 99; returns from Rome, 106; his charter, 107; his descent, 109.
Euripus, or sea-flood, destroys villages, 191.
Eustace, earl of Boulogne, his affray, 218.
Exeter, fortified and walled by Athelstan, 134; burnt, 168; reduced by Wm. I, 281.

Famine, ravages England, 170.
Feudal law, practices connected with, 447, note.
Fire, sacred, miracle of, at Jerusalem, 384, 404.
Fitz-Hubert, Robert, 506, 511.
Fitz-Osborne, William, 288.
Flanders, Robert earl of, 366, 436.
Formosus, pope, his pretended epistle, 127.
Forest, New, account of, 306.
Franks, origin of, 63; their character, 95.
France, recapitulation of kings of, 64, 99.
Frea, wife of Woden, 8.
Frideswide, St. church at Oxford burnt, 191.
Fulcher of Chartres, on Syrian transactions, 395.
Fulbert of Chartres, his character, 204, 314.
Fulda, monastery of, 210; disease at, 318.
Fulk, earl of Anjou, account of, 265.

Gelasius II, pope, expelled Rome, 464.
Geoffrey, Martel, account of, 267.
Gerbert, pope Sylvester II, 172—181.
German, St. 24; his miracles, 116.
Gildas, the historian, 22, 67.
Girth, or Gurth, son of Godwin, 222, 275.
Glastonbury, antiquities of, by William of Malmesbury, 51; account of, 21; its privileges, 142, 150; Canute's presents to, 203; contention at, 303.
Gosfrith, bishop of Coutances, 328, 329.
Gloucester, Robert earl of, prefatory epistle to, 1. Conclusion of Regal History addressed to, 477; his character, 478; Modern History addressed to, 480; conduct with respect to Stephen, 492; with respect to his sister, 497; arrives in England, 505—531; his death 1, note.
Godfrey, duke of Lorraine, account of, 365.
Godfrey of Boulogne, account of, 392; joins the crusade, 394; chosen king of Jerusalem, 390, 394; dies, 395.
Godfrey, prior of Winton, account of, 475.
Godwin, earl, defeats the Swedes, 198; supports Emma, 206; murders Alfred the son of Ethelred, 207; his character and death, 221; his family, 223.
Golgotha, church of, 395, note.
Gothrun, a Danish king, baptized, 115.
Gregory I, pope, 42; dialogues of, 119, 232; his pastoral translated by Alfred, 120.
Gregory VI, pope, otherwise Gratian, 223—230.
Gregory VII, pope, otherwise Hildebrand, 298.
Gregory VIII, pope, otherwise Maurice Bourdin, 464.
Griffin, king of the Welsh, 214, 256.
Grimbald, abbat of Winton, 118, 120.
Guimund, bp. of Avers, his eloquence, 312.
Guiscard, or Wiscard, Robert, 294, 413.
Gunhilda, married to Hen. III, 207; accused of adultery, 238.
Gunhildis, sister of Swayne, murdered, 185.

Handboc, Alfred's, 120, and note.
Hardecanute, 205; dies at Lambeth, 206.
Harold, sends presents to Athelstan, 134.
Harold, son of Canute, 205; dies, 206.
Harold, son of Godwin, 214; banished, 220, 254; seizes the crown of England, 55, 275; his death, 277—280.
Harold Harfager, king of Norway, 256, 257.
Harding, founder of Cistertians, 347.
Hastings the Dane, his ravages, 115.
Hastings, battle of, 276—280.
Head, magical, formed by Gerbert, 181.
Hegesippus, a Greek author, 378.
Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, 5.
Helias de la Fleche, 341.
Hengist, king of Kent, his origin, 8; arrives in Britain, 9; his son and brother arrive at Orkney, 10; settle in Northumbria, ib. his massacre of the British nobles, 11; death, ib.
Henry I, king of England, 425; elected king, 427; marries Matilda of Scotland, 428; gets possession of Normandy, 431; his wholesome laws, 434; his transactions with the Scots, ib.; subdues the Welsh, 435; quarrel with earl of Flanders, 436; interview with pope Calixtus, 440; passion for exotic animals, 443; recapitulation of his character, 445; his person and habits, 446; espouses Adala of Louvain, 454; transactions till his death, 483-490.
Henry III, emperor of Germany, 208—212.
Henry IV, emperor, excommunicated, 358.
Henry V, his contest with the pope, 457.
Hereford, Roger earl of, rebels, 288.
Herbert, bishop of Norwich, account of, 353.
Hildebrand, pope Gregory VII, 295; his conduct to the emperor Henry V, 298.
Hildebert of Mans, verses on Berengar, 312, 367.
Hingwar, the Dane, ravages Northumbria, 240.
Horsa, brother of Hengist, his death, 10.
Horse, what, 350, note.
Hospital, erected at Jerusalem, 385.
Hubba the Dane, brother of Hingwar, 240.
Hugh the Great, brother of Philip, joins the Crusade, 365. His death, 408.
Hugo, abbat of Clugny, his account of Hildebrand, 296. Announces the death of Rufus, 344.
Hugo, abp. of Rouen, his letter, 489.
Hunting, right of, restricted by Will. II, 339.
Hyde monastery, Winton, 122; burnt, 523.
Hyrcanus, digs gold from David's sepulchre, 177.

Ida, king of Northumbria, 41.
Ina, king of Wessex, 31. Abdicates and dies at Rome, 37. His grant to Glastonbury, 32.
Indract, St. account of, 26.
Investiture of churches, 298, 447. Pope Paschal's epistle on, 448. Contests about, 458.
Ipres, William de, his perfidy, 495. Burns the abbey of Warewell, 523.
Ireland, converted, 24. Its dependence on England, 443.

Jerusalem, expedition to, or Crusade, 355. Approach to by Crusaders, 383. Description of, 384. Patriarchs of, 385. Siege of, 387. Capture of, 389.
Jews, their insolence, 338.
Jewish youth, anecdote of, 338, note.
John XIII, pope, his epistle to Alfric, 151. Confirms the grants to Glastonbury, 153.
John XV, pope, makes peace between Ethelred and Richard duke of Normandy, 171.
John Fitz-Gilbert, 512.
Joscelyn of St. Berlins, account of, 355. His translation of St. Augustine, ib.
Jothwel, king of the Welsh, 129.
Joust, meaning of that term, 515, note.
Jutes, a German tribe, settled in Britain, 9.

Katigis, son of Vortigern, death of, 10.
Kenelm, St. 87. Murdered by his sister, 238.
Kenred, king of Northumbria, 53.
Kenred, or Kinred, king of Mercia, 72.
Kent. Its conversion to Christianity, 13. Annexed to West Saxons, 17. Ravaged by Ina, 31. Its extent, 91.
Kentwin, king of Wessex, 30.
Kenwalk, king of Wessex, 20; his death, 30.
Kenulph, king of Mercia, 79—86.
Kinad, king of Scots, 147, 158.
Knights, order of, among the Anglo-Saxons, 131.

Lambert, abp. of Canterbury, deprived, 78.
Lamp, perpetual, 234.
Lanfranc, abp. of Canterbury, 300, 323.
Lanzo, prior of Lewes, account of, 472.
Laurentius, abp. of Canterbury, chastized by St. Peter, 13.
Legion, Theban, account of, 136, note.
Leo III, pope, 79. His epistle, 82.
Leofa, murders king Edmund, 143.
Leofric, earl of Hereford, 214.
Leonard, St. his peculiar power, 415, note.
Leutherius, bishop, founds Malmesbury, 28.
Lewis VI, king of France, account of, 438.
Library, noble one at York, 62; at Jerusalem, 385.
Libraries formerly attached to churches, 120.
London, ravaged, 97; granted by Alfred to earl Ethered, 116; besieged by Danes, 167; by Canute, 194; dreadful tempest at, 342.
Longinus, St. legend of, 136, note.
Lothere, king of Kent, 15.
Lucius, king of the Britons, baptized, 21.
Luidhard, bishop, exemplary life of, 12.

Mabil, wife of Robert earl of Gloucester, 1, note; 433, note, 483, 528.
Malcolm, king of the Cumbrians, 147.
Malcolm II, king of Scotland, 199.
Malcolm III, placed on the throne of Scotland, by Edward the Confessor, 214; receives the English fugitives, 282; slain, 283, 333.
Malger, archbp. of Rouen, account of, 300.
Malmesbury, monastery of, founded, 28; seized by Offa, 78; by Alstan, 98; its possessions restored, 86; monks expelled by Edwy, 146; seized by Roger bishop of Salisbury, 508; singular account of one of its monks, 177.
Malmesbury, John abbat of, his character, 509.
Malmesbury, William monk of, his motives for writing history, 1; his history of Glastonbury, 21; his love of learning and fondness for books, 93; of Norman and English parentage, 258; his diffidence, 414; first regular historian of the English after Bede, 477; three small volumes of his works supposed to be lost, 480, note, residence at Malmesbury, 28; indignation at oppression of his monastery, 78, 98, 146, 508; his design of writing the lives of the prelates, 148.
Magus, Simon, legend of, 180, note.
Mancus, value of, 82, note.
Manse, signification of, 108, note.
Marchio, its signification, 517, note.
Margaret, wife of Malcolm king of Scots, her issue, 253; her piety and death, 333.
Martin, St. his relics cure a leprous person, 116.
Matilda, wife of William I, 265, 305.
Matilda, wife of Henry I, account of, 253, 428; her piety, learning, and death, 452.
Matilda, or Maud, married to Henry V, 457; returns to England, 481; succession of England settled on her, 482; married to Fulco earl of Anjou, 483; succession again confirmed to her, 487; elected queen, 519; designs of, 531; escape from Oxford, 535.
Maurilius of Feschamp, account of, 301.
Mayors of the palace, 64, note.
Maximus, assumes the empire, 6; his expedition to Gaul, and death, ib.
Mellent, Robert earl of, account of, 441.
Mercia, kings of, 70; extent of, 92; Mercians unite with the Danes, 112; their noble stand in favour of Ethelred, 192.
Mice, singular tales concerning, 316, 317.
Milburga, abbess of Wenlock, 243.
Miles, ambiguity of that term, 289, note; 499.
Miracles, Oswald's, 49; of pope Leo III, 65; of St. Martin, 116; St. Edward's, 164; of St. Magnus, 182; of Ethelred and Ethelbert, 238; of St. Kenelm, ib. St. Wistan, 239; St. Edmund, 240; St. Milburga, 243; Eadburga, 244; Editha, 245; of Edward the Confessor, 248.
Money, debased state of in time of king Stephen, 511.
Montgomerie, Roger, conspires against William II, 329.
Morcar, son of Elgar, made earl of Northumbria, 223; defeated by Danes, 256; his death, 285.
Moreton, William earl of, rebels against Henry I, 431.
Mountain, perforated, tale of, 178.
Murrain, dreadful, 417.

Necromancy, 180, 232.
Nice, in Bithynia, siege of, 366, 377.
Nidering, or Nithing, signification of, 330.
Normandy, granted to RoUo, 125; distracted state of, 260, 331, 422, 431
Normandy, William I, duke of, account of, 143.
Normandy, Richard I, duke of, his pacification with Ethelred, 171.
Normandy, Richard II, duke of, account of, 188.
Normandy, Robert I, duke of, account of, 259; his expedition to Jerusalem, 189.
Normandy, Robert II, Curthose, duke of, pawns his duchy, 339; joins the crusade, 366, 410; account of, 420; arrangement with Henry I, 422; imprisoned till death, 423.
Normans, subdue part of Gaul, 8; unjust preference of after the conquest, 253; dislike to William II, 329 ; feuds of with the English, 217; manners and customs of, 280.
Northumberland, Robert, earl of, 323, 339.
Northumbria, kingdom of, 41; divided into two provinces, 46; its extent, 93; yields to Egbert, 96; unites with Danes, 112; subdued by Athelstan, 129.
Norwegian, singular courage of one, 256.
Norway, succession of its kings, 292.

Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, separates Edwy from Elfgiva, 146.
Odo, bishop of Bayeux and earl of Kent, 307; rebels against Rufus and is banished, 328.
Offa, king of Mercia, his character, 77; rapacity, 78; treaty with Charlemagne, 84.
Offa, king of Essex, becomes a monk, 91.
Ordeal, account of, 22, note.
Order, monastic, afflicted by Edwy, 146; revives under Edgar, 155.
Organ, hydraulic, account of, 175.
Orkney, isles of, subdued by Magnus, 343; Paul earl of, 443.
Osberne, precentor of Canterbury, his life of Dunstan, 146; his skill in music, 148.
Osbert, king of Northumbria, 112.
Osred, king of Northumbria, 68.
Oswald, king of Northumbria, 46; his death, 48; miracles, 49, 237.
Oswin, king of Northumbria, 50.
Oswy, king of Northumbria, 50, 51.
Otha, brother of Hengist, settles in Northumbria, 40.
Otho, the Great, 66.

Pallas, his body found at Rome, 234.
Palling, a Danish noble murdered, 185.
Palms, assumed by pilgrims, and why, 398.
Palumbus, a priest, 233; his death, 234.
Paschal II, pope, his letter to Henry I, on investitures, 448; to Anselm, 450; contest with the emperor Henry V, 457.
Paschasius, his story of the Host, 314.
Patrick, St. 24.
Patrician of Rome, its office, 462.
Paul, of Samosata, 396.
Paulinus, 26; converts the Northumbrians, 45. Penda, king of Mercia, his character, 70; his death, 71.
Peter the Hermit, account of, 366, 381.
Peter-pence, origin of, 98, 202.
Petrary, meaning of that term, 380, 405.
Philip I, king of France, 206. His infatuated conduct, 437.
Philip the clerk, account of, 420.
Places, holy, Bede's account of, 57.
Plegmund, abp. of Canterbury, 120.
Plough-alms, what, 201.
Poison, antidote against, 415.
Poitou, Peter, bishop of, account of, 469.
Poitou, William, earl of, defeated by the Turks, 408. His licentious conduct, 469.
Prodigy, of the double woman, 235.
Pythagoras, his double path, 172.

Quendrida, murders her brother Kenelm, 87, 238.

Ramula, description of, 383. Siege of, 409.
Ranulf, or Ralph, bishop of Durham, his character, 336, 476. Imprisoned, 428. His escape, 429.
Raymond, earl of St. Giles, joins the crusade, 365. Account of, 416.
Reading monastery, 447.
Redwald, king of the East Angles, 41, 88.
Repasts, custom concerning in England, changed, 441, note.
Richard, son of Will. I, his untimely death, 306.
Ring, with Solomon's impression, 177.
Ritual, Ambrosian, 350, note. Gregorian, ib.
Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, 217. He flies, proceeds to Rome, and dies, 221.
Robert, bishop of Chester, account of, 354.
Robert Curthose. See Normandy.
Robert, earl of Moreton, brother of Will. I, 307.
Robert Fitz-Hubert, 511.
Robert Friso, earl of Flanders, account of, 289.
Robert Guiscard, account of, 295.
Robert, king of France, his character, 204.
Robert, son of Godwin, account of, 284.
Roger, bishop of Salisbury, account of, 441. Imprisoned, 500. Death and character, 507.
Rollo the Dane, obtains Rouen, 125. His insolence, 126.
Romans finally quit Britain, 6.
Rome, dreadful state of, 224. Citizen of, singular story of, 232. Poetical description of, 367. Account of its gates, churches, &c. 368. Schism in church of, 484.
Rome-scot, 98, 202.
Ross, in Wales, Flemings settled at, 435.
Rouen, William, archbishop of, account of, 438.

Sabert, king of East Saxons, baptized, 90.
Saints, incorruption of several, after death, 48, 236.
Salisbury, tempest at, 343; cathedral, 442.
Saracens, their learning and divination, 173. Defeat of at Ascalon, 407.
Saxons, invited over from Germany, 7.
Saxons, East, kingdom of, 90. Its extent, 92.
Saxons, West kingdom of, 17. Its extent, 92.
Schools instituted in East Anglia, 88.
Scotland, subdued by Canute, 199.
Scots, defeated by the Angles, 9. Characterized, 364. Civilized by king David, 434.
Scotus, Johannes, account of, 119.
Scotus, Marianus, account of, 317.
Selsey, monasteiy of, 92. Singular circumstance at, 236.
Sepulchre, holy, church of, 384, 389.
Serlo, bishop of Sees, trims the beard of Henry I, 445, note.
Serlo, abbat of Gloucester, account of, 471.
Severus, dies in Britain, 5.
Shift of the Virgin, confounds the Danes, 125.
Ship, a magnificent, presented to Athelstan, 134.
Shoes with curved points, 337, note.
Sibilla, duchess of Normandy, 421, note.
Sigebert, king of Wessex, 38. His death, ib.
Sigebert, king of East Anglia, 89.
Sighelm, bishop of Sherborne, sent to India by Alfred, 118.
Simony, its extensive spread, 357.
Siric, abp. of Canterbury, 167.
Sithtric, king of Northumbria, 129, 132.
Siward, earl of Northumbria, kills Macbeth, 214. Supports Edward the Confessor, 219.
Siward, king of Norway, winters in England, 444. His voyage to Jerusalem, ib.
Slaves, female, prostituted and sent to Denmark, 222. Custom of selling, 279.
Sleepers, seven, story of, 250, note.
Solyman, sovereign of Romania, his army defeated, 376. Defeats the Franks, 408.
Sow, a warlike engine so called, 388.
Spear of Charlemagne, which pierced our Saviour, 135.
Spike, used at the Crucifixion, 135.
Statue, in the Campus Martius, 176.
Statue, brazen, at Rome, story of, 232.
Stephen, earl of Moreton, account of, 482. Comes to England and is chosen king, 490. Crowned, and goes into Scotland, 491. His character, 495. His perfidy to Robert, earl of Gloucester, 496. His violent conduct, 500. Contest with his brother the legate, 504. Conflicts with the Empress's party, 506, 507. Besieges Lincoln, 514. Defeated and made captive, 515. Liberated, 524. Plunders Wareham, 533. Burns Oxford, ib.
Stigand, bishop of Winton, 221, 253, 281, 302.
Sugar-cane, account of, 397, note.
Suger, abbat of St. Denis, his account of Henry I, 446, note.
Sultan, meaning of that term, 379.
Superstition, singular, 122, and note.
Sussex, kingdom of, 92, note.
Sweyn, king of Denmark, invades England, 185. His conduct, 189, and death, 190.
Sweyn, son of Godwin, 219, 222. Goes to Jerusalem and is killed by the Saracens, ib.
Swithun, St., bishop of Winchester, 98.
Sword, miraculous, Athelstan's, 130; Constantine's, 135.

Tancred, prince of Antioch, enters Bethlehem, 383; his covetousness, 390; his conduct and death, 419.
Tewkesbury, monastery of, 433.
Thanet, isle of, appropriated to the Angles on their arrival, 9.
Thanet, monastery of, minster, 15.
Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, 15, note, 51.
Thorns, crown of, 136.
Thurkill, the Dane, invites Sweyn, to England, 185; his expulsion and death, 197.
Time, division of by candle, 121.
Tirel, Walter, kills W. Rufus, 345.
Tosty, son of Godwin, expelled by the Northumbrians, 222; retires to Flanders, 223; his attempts against Harold, 256; defeated and slain, 257, 285.
Tower of London, its origin, 341.
Truce of God, why so called, 358, note.
Tudites, or Martel, Carolus, 64; his body carried off by evil spirits, 232.
Turks, their extensive dominion, 360; crafty mode of fight, 361; cruelty at the siege of Nice, 376; at Antioch, 379; defeated near Berith, 401; bodies burnt to obtain money they had swallowed, 406, note; besiege Baldwin at Rama, 284.

Vavassour, meaning of, 510, note.
Vallery, St., his body brought forth to implore a wind, 273.
Ver, Albric de, his harangue in favour of king Stephen, 502.
Vindelici, account of, 208.
Virginity, Aldhelm's commendation of, 29, 36.
Visions, of Charles king of France, 102; of Athelstan's mother, 139; of Edgar, 156; of Edward Confessor, 249; of Constantine the Great, 372.
Vortigern, his character, 7, 11.
Vortimer, the son of Vortigern, 10.
Ulfkytel, earl of Essex, attacks the Danes at Thetford, 69; killed at Assingdon, 170, 194.
Urban II, pope, 299; instigates the first crusade, 357; his speech at the council of Clermont, 359; contests with Guibert, 414.
Utred, earl of Northumbria, 192; defeated and put to death by Canute, 193.

Waher, Ralph de, rebels against William I, 287.
Wales, reduced to a province, 214; pays tribute to Athelstan, 134.
Walkelin, bishop of Winchester, 302.
Walker, bishop of Durham, murdered, 303.
Walwin, nephew of Arthur, his sepulchre, 315.
Waltheof, earl, account of, 386; his death, ibid.
Warewell, or Whorwell, 160; monastery of, ib.
Warwick, Henry earl of, 441.
Welsh, subdued by Edward the Elder, 123; by Harold, 256; by Henry I, 435.
Werburga, patroness of Chester, 72, 236, 243.
Werefrith, bishop of Worcester, 118.
Westminster Abbey consecrated, 255.
West-Saxon kings, geneology of, 109.
Wight, Isle of, given to Withgar, 218; converted to Christianity, 71.
Wilfrid, bishop of Hexham, expelled his see, 51.
William I, king of England, 253; his early history, 259; his conquests, 268; is crowned, 281; summary of his wars, 282; his issue, 305; munificence to monasteries, 308; death, 310.
William II, king of England, his birth and education, 327; contentions with his nobles, 328; seizes castles of Tunbridge and Pevensey, 319; contests and treaty with his brother Robert, 330; his expedition against Wales and Scotland, 333; character, 334, 346; calamitous events of his reign, 342; singular tokens and manner of his death, 344.
William of Carilef, bishop of Durham, 304.
William, earl of Arches, 263.
William Fitz-Osberne, account of, 289.
William, son of Henry I, 454.
Winchelcumb, dreadful tempest at, 342.
Winchester, church at, 21, 39; Canute's liberality to, 198.
Windows, glass, first makers of in England, 54.
Wistan, St. account of, 239.
Witch, Berkeley, account of, 230.
Witches, two at Rome, account of, 180.
Withlaf, king of Mercia, 88, 96.
Withred, king of Kent, 16.
Woden, account of, 8.
Wolves, tribute of, paid to Edgar, 158.
Woodstock Park, menagerie at, 443.
Worcester, insurrection at, 207.
Wulnod, destroys Ethelred's fleet, 169.
Wulnod, son of Godwin, 222.
Wulstan, precentor of Winchester, 149; his book on the harmony of sounds, ib.
Wulstan, archbishop of York, confined by Edred, 145.
Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, account of, 303.
Wulfhere, king of Mercia, 71, 72.

York, city of, burnt, 112; besieged, 133; destroyed, 282.
York, see of, controversy with Canterbury, 319; with Worcester and Dorchester, 323.
Youths, from England, exposed to sale at Rome, 42.