Great Britain -- History -- Plantagenets, 1154-1399; Plantagenet, House of
Richard I., Cœur de Lion, son of Henry II., 53;
quarrels with his brother Henry, 103;
his father’s distrust of, 104;
joins the third crusade, 105;
does homage to Philip II., 106;
joins in a conspiracy against his father, 106;
character of his reign, 110;
his accession to the throne, 111;
his coronation, 112;
his personal appearance and character, 112, 113;
his mode of procuring means for the third crusade, 114;
starts on the crusade, 115;
his journey along the Italian shore, 118;
at Messina, 119;
his campaigns in Palestine, 120;
exploits of, 121;
his retreat and truce, 122;
captivity of, 122;
negotiations for his release, 129;
ransom raised for his release, 129;
his release, 130;
his second visit to England, 131;
money refused him by the great council, 133;
his last years, 134;
events of the war with Philip II., 134;
his death, 135
Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury, 177
Richard, Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans, brother to Henry III.,
173, 178;
his marriage, 181;
his character, 192;
at the battle of Lewes, 205;
his death, 210
Robert, Earl of Gloucester, 16;
swears fealty to Stephen, 17;
his power, 19;
taken prisoner, 26;
his death, 29
Robert, Earl of Leicester, regent, during the king’s absence, 55
Roches, Peter des, Bishop of Winchester, regent, 166, 170;
the king’s adviser, 178;
fall of, 179
Rochester castle besieged, 159
Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, 15;
justiciar of Henry I., 21;
arrested, 21
Roger, Earl of Leicester, 28
Roger of Hereford, 44
Roger of Pont l’Eveque, Archbishop of York, 81
Rome, proceedings at, 30;
character of the court of, 91, 92
Rudolf of Hapsburg, 3
Runnymede, granting of the Magna Carta at, 157
Saer de Quincy, 168
St. Albans, assembly at, 154
St. Andrew’s, Bishop of, 259
St. Bernard, 4, 30
St. Edmund, 85
St. Edmund’s, coronation at, 47, 48
St. Gregory, 59
St. Hugh, 133
St. Paul’s, council at, 154
St. William, 30
Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, 104
Salisbury, Earl of, 160
Salisbury, meeting of barons at, 249
Saragossa, 11
Saxony, 8
Scotland, invasion of England by, 17, 19;
submission of to Henry III., 97;
claims of Edward I. upon, 239;
the kingdom of, 240;
papal claims over, 254;
alliance of, with France, 257;
troubles in, 257;
war against England, 258;
truce with England, affairs in, after the fall of Balliol, 259;
Edward’s new constitution for, 259;
truce concluded with Edward II., 282
Scottish independence, war of, 258
Scutage, institution of, 56
Segrave, Sir John, 259
Segrave, Stephen, justiciar, 177
Shrewsbury, assembly at, 234
Sybilla, queen of Jerusalem, sister of Baldwin the Leper, 104, 119
Simon de Montfort, _see_ Montfort, Simon de
Spain, state of, 9
Standard, battle of the, 19
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