The Normans; told chiefly in relation to their conquest of EnglandJewett, Sarah Orne
History
The Normans; told chiefly in relation to their conquest of England
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Great Britain -- History -- Norman period, 1066-1154; Normans
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
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