his coronation;
disputes with his nobles respecting Gaveston;
his expedition against Bruce;
his defeat at Bannockburn;
his attachment to the Despensers;
discontent of his subjects;
his queen's complaints against him;
her invasion of England;
his wanderings and capture;
deposition;
captivity and ill-treatment;
his murder in Berkeley Castle;
his monument in Gloucester Cathedral.
Edward III., his march to the Border;
account of his warfare there;
his narrow escape from Douglas;
causes Mortimer's arrest and execution;
his respectful conduct to Queen Isabel.
Edward the Atheling, his infant son Edgar;
his daughters;
Edward, son of Edmund Ironside;
his marriage;
owned as Etheling.
Edwin, grandson of Earl Leofric;
enemy of Harold;
submits to the conqueror;
and is betrothed to his daughter Matilda;
joins the Camp of Refuge;
is killed in combat.
Eghelemar, Bp. of Elmham.
Eghelsie, Bp. of Selsey.
Eghelwin. Bp. of Durham, joins the Camp of Refuge;
dies in captivity.
Egypt, crusade in, under William Longespee the Elder;
under Louis IX..
Eleanor of Aquitaine, married to Henry II.;
evils resulting from this;
not the murderess of Fair Rosamond;
kept in captivity by her husband;
her dislike to Constance of Brittany;
beseiged at Mirabeau by Prince Arthur;
intercedes for Prince Arthur;
dies of grief at Fontevraud.
Eleanor of Castille, married to Edward I.;
accompanies him to the Holy Land;
sucks the poison from his wounds;
her death;
the crosses erected to her memory.
Eleanor of Provence, married to Henry III.;
vituperative ballads made on her;
her unpopularity;
her spirited conduct in the Barons' war.
Elgiva, William the Conqueror's daughter, representation of,
in the Bayeaux tapestry.
Ely, Isle of, the Camp of Refuge established there.
Emma, daughter of the Count of Paris,
betrothed to Richard the Fearless.
Emma, daughter of Richard the Fearless,
wife of Ethelred the Unready and Knut;
invites her sons to claim the throne of England.
Emperors of the West, their influence on the election of Popes;
deprived of this by the Lateran Council;
their struggle to regain it.
England, effects of the Danish conquest upon;
sad state of,
under William Rufus;
granted to France by Pope Innocent III.;
a fief of Rome;
the laws of,
adhered to by the Norman kings;
ignored by Henry II.,
prosperity of,
in the early part of Edward the First's reign;
increase of learning in;
discontented state of,
under Edward II..
Ermengarde, mother of St. Anselm.
Espriota, wife of William Longsword.
Estates, inquisition into,
by Edward I..
Etheling, account of the family of;
meaning of the term.
Ethelred the Unready, husband of Emma, daughter of
Richard the Fearless;
father of Edward the Confessor.
Eustace, Count de Mantes,
events of his visit to Edward the Confessor.
Eustace de Blois, son of Stephen;
his excesses and death.
Evesham, battle of.
Evil Toll, the, imposed by Edward I.;
opposition to, by the barons;
results in the right of self-taxation.
Exchequer, supposed derivation of.
Eystein, son of Magnus, King of Norway;
his discussion with his brother Sigurd;
his conduct as King of Norway.
Fair Rosamond, history of.
Falaise, William the Conqueror born at;
Prince Arthur in captivity there.
Falkirk, battle of.
Fescamp, Abbey of, Richard the Fearless buried there.
Fitzadhelm, William, Governor of Ireland.
Fitzosborn, William, the chief friend of William the Conqueror;
his counsel to William on Harold's usurpation;
his charge at Hastings.
--Roger, imprisoned by William the Conqueror.
Fitzpiers, Geoffrey, Grand Justiciary under King John.
Fitz-Richard, Gilbert, his noble conduct.
Fitzurse, Reginald, murderer of Becket;
his arms.
Fitzwalter, Lord, King John's outrage upon;
the Barons make him their general.
Flambard, Ralph; made Bp. of Durham by William Rufus;
his subsequent career.
Flemings, the, settlement of, in Pembrokeshire.
Folliott, Gilbert, Bp. of London,
his disappointment at Becket's promotion;
supports the king against Becket;
the pope's reproof to him;
his excommunication.
Fontevraud, the burial-place of Henry II.;
of Richard I. and Joan of Sicily;
of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Forest laws, the grievance of, under William the Conqueror;
their severity increased by William Rufus;
mitigated by Magna Charta.
Foulques I., le Roux, Count of Anjou.
Foulques II., le Bon, Count of Anjou.
Foulques III., Ferra, Count of Anjou;
his violent crimes and penances.
Foulques IV., le Rechin, Count of Anjou;
events of his marriage with Bertrade.
Foulques V., Count of Anjou;
joins the crusade;
becomes King of Jerusalem.
Franks, the conversion of their early kings to Christianity.
France, the Northmen in;
becomes a kingdom.
Franco, Abp., intercedes with the Northmen for Rouen;
his influence over Rollo.
Frederick II., struggle between, and Pope Innocent IV.;
deposed by Council of Lyons.
Frithric, Abbot of St. Alban's, his opposition to William the Conqueror;
joins the Camp of Refuge, and dies there.
Gael, the, a Keltic tribe.
Gascony, seized by Philippe IV.
Gastinois, countess de, accused of murdering her husband;
vindicated by Ingelger.
Gattorm, brother of St. Olaf, story of his childhood.
Gaveston, Piers, account of;
Edward of Caernarvon's attachment to;
banished by Edward I.;
returns on the accession of Edward II.;
his vanity and advancement;
his affronts to the nobles;
they demand his dismissal;
the king obliged to banish him;
his recall;
union of nobles against him;
his surrender;
his mock trial and death.
Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, his war and personal combat with Duke William.
Geoffrey, Grisegonelle, Count of Anjou;
legend of his name.
Geoffrey Martel, Count of Anjou.
Geoffrey, son of Foulques V., Count of Anjou.
Geoffrey of Anjou, his appearance and character;
married to Empress Maude;
origin of his surname Plantagenet;
death.
Geoffrey le Barbu, Count of Touraine.
Geoffrey, third son of Henry II., married to Constance of Brittany;
rebels against his father;
his death.
Geoffrey of Lincoln, son of Fair Rosamond, his fidelity to his father;
becomes Abp. of York and Chancellor;
driven abroad by King John, and dies there.
Geoffroi de la Tour and the lion.
Gerbervi, Robert Courtheuse besieged by his father there.
Germain, St., effect of his preaching in Wales.
Gifford, Walter, Count of Longueville, besieges Arques.
Gillow, makes known to Duke William the conspiracy against him.
Gisele, the wife of Rollo.
Gisors, the elm of, conferences under;
description of.
Glanville, Ranulf de, Chancellor and Grand Justiciary to Henry II.
Godfrey de Bouillon, his noble character;
conduct of, at the siege of Antioch;
at Jerusalem;
chosen King of Jerusalem;
dies, and is buried there.
Godiva, Lady, probably date of the tradition of.
Godstow, Fair Rosamond retires to.
Godwin, Earl of Wessex;
traditions respecting his origin;
his services to Knut;
has Harold Harefoot crowned king;