by Lisa Hilton
Tinchebrai, battle of (1106), 50, 68
Tiron monks, 61
Titchfield, 289; Abbey, 338
Toesny, De, lands, 171
Toledo, reconquest of (1085), 54
Torqueri of Bouillon, 101
Toulouse, 98
Toulouse, Countess of, 101
Toulouse, Philippa of, 96
Toulouse, Raymond of, 121, 127, 132, 135
Tourbeuyle, Joanna de, 253
Tournai, 260
Tours, 137, 144, 323; abbey of Beaumont les Tours, 337; Chronicle of, 17
Tours, treaty of (1444), 337, 341
Towton, battle of (1461), 353—4
Trapani, 193
Treason Act (1352), 286
Tresilian, Robert, 286
Trindade, Ann, 124, 130, 138
Trinity, 395
Tristan de Leonis, 197
Troyes, St Peter’s cathedral, 323
Troyes, treaty of (1420), 323—4, 328, 334
Tubbay John, 311
Tucé, Herbert de, 138
Tudela, 121
Tudor, Mary, 417
Tudor, Owen (son of Owen Tudor and Catherine de Valois), 332, 333
Tudor, Owen ap Maredudd ap, 330—3, 350, 352
Tudors, accession of, 334
Tunis, 192—3
Turin, 178
Turks, 102, 103
Turnham, Stephen of, 127
Turold, Lord, 18
Tusculum, 106
Tutbury, 348; castle, 229
Tyler, Wat, 276
Tynemouth, 210, 215—6; Priory, 215, 230
Tyre, 125
Tyre, William of, 103, 104
Ulster, Elizabeth de Burgh, Countess of, 261
Underwood, Malcolm, 394
Urban IV, Pope, 273
Usk, Adam of, 282, 295, 300, 318
Val-es-Dunes, battle of (1047), 18
Valence, William de, 170, 174
Valenciennes, 236, 251, 252, 258
Valois, Jeanne de, 307
Valois, Louis de, 323
Vannes, 312
Varaville, battle of (1054), 28
Vaudreuil, 18
Vere, Aubrey de, 83, 88
Vergil, Polydore, 319, 392, 393, 402, 408
Vermandois, Count of, 97, 98, 99
Vermendois, Petronilla, Countess of (Eleanor of Aquitaine’s sister), 96, 98, 99
Verses of Gildas, The, 292—3
Vescy, Isabella de, 215
Vescy, William de, 170
Vexin, 108, 133
Vexin, Lord of Arques, 20
Vézélay 101, 106
Viking descent of Norman dynasty, 23
Vincennes, 326
Virgin, cult of the, 26
Visconti, Violante, 269
Vita Aedwardi Regis, 197
Vita Beati Eadwardi Regis Anglorum, 197
Vita Edwardi Secundi, 216, 227, 229, 232, 235
Vita Sancti Edwardi, 197
Vitry-sur-Marne, 98—9
Vlaardingen, battle of (1347), 266
‘Voyage of St Brendan, The’, 55, 63, 281
Vulognes, 366
Vyssi Brod, Master of, 281
Wake, Thomas, 319
Wakefield, battle of, (1460), 351
Waleran, Count of Meulan, 73
Waleran of Luxembourg, 277
Wales, rebellions in, 65
Wallace, William, 205
Wallingford, 211, 237, 238, 239, 327, 375; Castle, 314
Walsingham, 284, 287, 296, 297; shrine of, 362
Walsingham, Thomas, 267
Walter (Isabella’s minstrel), 224
Walter, Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, 135
Waltham, 62, 148, 261, 327, 329; Abbey, 47, 51, 53
Walton-on-the-Naze castle, 236
Warbeck, Perkin, 414
Warenne, Earl of, 84
Wark, Northumberland, 186
Warkworth Chronicle, The, 374
Warwick, 216, 300, 364, 369, 392
Warwick, Countess of, 370, 374, 380, 382, 391, 398
Warwick, earls of, 204, 216, 296, 297, 319, 389, 393, 398, 405, 407—8, 414
Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of, 345, 346, 347, 348—9, 350, 352, 353, 358—9, 369; as heir to Salisbury title, 359; and Elizabeth Woodville, 359, 368; and the Burgundian marriage, 361, 362; and the Woodvilles, 361, 363—4; and Edward IV, 362, 365; raises army in Kent, 363, 364; intentions for uprising, 364—5; retreats to France, 365—6; and marriage of Henry to Anne Neville, 368—9; returns to England, 370; attempts at government, 371; and return of Edward IV, 372, 373; death, 373, 414
Warwick, Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of, 286
Wash, the, 155
Waurin, Jean de, 358
Waverley, chronicler of, 181
Weir, Alison, 383, 386
Welles, John, Viscount, 410, 411
Wells, 373
Welsh marches, lordships of, 226—7, 228
Welsh, the, 331
Wendover, Roger of, 147, 153
Wenzel, King of Bohemia, 273, 274
Werthyngpole, Lonota de, 260
West Ham, manor of, 47
Westminster, 62, 83, 84, 90, 92, 145, 169, 173, 177—8, 180, 182, 187, 214—15, 217, 240, 248, 254, 273, 277, 286, 301, 309, 338, 370, 383, 390; chamber and chapel, 167; charters, 57; Eleanor’s of Castile’s garden, 217; Great Hall, 212, 278, 288; Palace of, 184, 297, 351; Queen’s pond, 196, 217; royal apartments, 343; St James hospital, 48; St Stephen’s Chapel, 416; tournament, 360
Westminster, abbot of, 275
Westminster, Provisions of, 180
Westminster Abbey, 31, 33, 44, 46, 47, 176, 197, 211, 212, 289, 321, 327, 332, 391; Eleanor of Castile’s tomb, 201, 202; Elizabeth Woodville founds chapel in, 376; Jerusalem chamber, 313, 387; Katherine’s tomb, 185; Matilda of Scotland’s burial at, 58—9; Matilda’s coronation, 73; St Erasmus’ chapel, 376, 410; Sanctuary, 286, 360, 371, 383, 386, 388, 394, 401
Westminster Chronicle, The, 188, 274
Westmoreland, Ralph, Earl of, 382
Weston, John de, 206
Westwood, 113
Wharfedale, 206
White Ship, 60, 61, 68
Whittlewood forest, 355
wife as a ‘peaceweaver’, 22
Wight, Isle of, 411
William (Eleanor of Provence’s clothes merchant), 178
William, Duke of Normandy (son of Henry I and Matilda), 46, 58, 60, 61, 69
William, son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Empress Matilda, 87, 90
William, son of Henry II and Eleanor, 111
William, son of Stephen and Matilda, 72, 85
William, sons of Edward III and Philippa, 254, 265, 257, 267
William I, King (formerly Duke of Normandy), 278; marriage to Matilda of Flanders, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 39; vulnerable position, 19—20; illegitimacy, 20; birth, 21; appearance, 21; as a minor, 28; campaigns, 28—9; claim on English crown, 30, 31, 44; and Harold, 30—1; and English expedition, 31; and battle of Hastings, 32; crowned King William I, 33; harrying of the north, 35; spiritual side, 37; and son Robert, 38, 39; and bishop Odo, 39; and death of Matilda, 39
William IX of Aquitaine, 96
William X of Aquitaine, 96
William of Bavaria, 277
William Rufus, 37, 43—4, 42, 43, 44, 62
William the Bad, King of Sicily, 121
William the Good, 121, 122—3
Willoughby, Sir Roger, 404
Wilton, 86, 148; Abbey, 41—2, 43, 52, 75—6; leprosarium, 65
Wilton, Eve of, 42, 74
Wilton Diptych, 283, 292, 310—11
Wilton, Serbo of (poet), 63
Wiltshire, Earl of, 348, 373
Winchelsea, 176, 268; convent, 267
Winchelsea, sea battle off (1350), 267—8
Winchester, 24, 25, 35, 62, 65, 83, 84, 90, 91, 118, 127, 129, 149—50, 151, 154, 167, 173, 181, 208, 244 254, 309, 404, 407; Castle, 44; exchequer court, 51; New Minster, 24
Winchester, bishop of, 156, 233, 348
Winchester, Countes
s of, 180
Winchester, John de Stratford, bishop of, 233
Winchester, treaty of (1153), 110
Windsor, 61, 62, 127, 173, 184, 187, 191, 217, 245, 254, 267, 269, 277, 285, 296, 298, 299, 326, 329, 333, 346, 375, 392, 409; College of St George, 262; St Edmund’s chapel, 267
Windsor Castle, 127, 183, 209, 314; gardens, 167; Henry I’s Christmas court, 70; Round Table feast and tournament (1344), 248, 262
Wingham, Henry, bishop of London, 174—75
Winton, John de, 196
Wissant, 77, 86
witchcraft, 316, 318—19
Wolvesey Palace, 84
women: aristocratic, as managers of family households and estates, 27—8; on crusade, 101, 106; education of, 26—7; inheritance rights of, 80 see also Salic Law; as landowners in England before Norman Conquest, 34; as military leaders, 77, 83; scholarship and religious life of, 26
Woodstock, 57, 62, 111, 152, 167, 168, 217, 254, 255, 256, 267, 268, 297, 311, 316
Woodville, Anthony, 350
Woodville, Sir Edward, 388, 395, 407, 408
Woodville, Elizabeth (later Queen of England), 319, 362; appearance, 355, 377—78; meets Edward IV, 355, 358; ancestry, 356; marriage to Edward, 356, 358; and Marguerite of Anjou, 358, 374—5; relationship with husband, 358, 378, 379; and Earl of Warwick, 359; coronation, 359, 360; ‘blemished’ sexual status, 360; children, 360, 376, 387; siblings, 360—1; visit to Norwich, 362—3; in vulnerable position, 364; moves to safety of Tower of London, 369; gives birth to son Edward, 371; and return of husband Edward, 372—3; grants to religious houses, 375—7; founds chapel in Westminster Abbey, 376; churching banquet, 377; as hostess to Lord Gruuthuyse, 377; and husband’s infidelities, 378; and Lord Hastings, 378; and execution of Duke of Clarence, 378, 379; and death of husband, 383; and Richard of Gloucester, 383; and Edward V, 384; seeks sanctuary, 386—7, 388; and Richard III, 387—8; hands son Richard over to Richard III, 388—9; marriage claimed to be invalid, 389, 396; on hearing news of Edward V’s investiture as Prince of Wales, 392; and death of sons in the Tower, 393; conspires against Richard III, 394; in sanctuary, 395—6; relinquishes Queen Dowager rank, 396; restored to Queen Dowager status, 407; surrenders her lands and boards at Bermondsey Abbey, 407, 408—9; and Buckingham rebellion, 411; interest in books, 412; as ideal consort to Edward, 416; death and burial, 409—10; will, 409
Woodville, John, 361, 362, 364
Woodville, Katherine, 386, 396
Woodville, Lionel, 360, 387, 394, 395
Woodville, Sir Richard (later Earl Rivers), 350, 353, 354, 356—7, 359, 360, 361—2, 364, 365, 377, 378, 385, 386, 387, 388, 390, 412
Woodville family, 356, 360—1, 363—4, 383—4, 385—6, 387, 394
Worcester, 181
Worcester, bishop of, 199, 275
Worde, Wynkeyn de, 412
Wulfhoth, son of Earl Godwin, 30
Wulfric (hermit), 74
Wulgrim, 152
Wycliffe, John, 281—2
Wykeham, William, bishop of Winchester, 272 273
Wyville, Robert, 238
Yarmouth, 176
Yolande of Aragon, 33 5 336 3 37, 338, 376
York, 32, 62, 73, 85, 201, 215, 216, 229, 230, 257, 263, 283, 287, 326, 351, 372, 382 387, 392, 396: castle, 229; cathedral church of St William, 251; Guild of Corpus Christi, 390; Minster, 257, 372; Place, 217; see of, 63—4, 89
York, Edmund of Langley, Duke of, 284, 300, 344
York, Margaret of (sister of Edward IV), 361, 362, 372, 377; Richard, brother of, 416
York, Richard, Duke of (son of Edward IV and Elizabeth), 337, 344, 345, 346, 347, 350, 351, 376, 387, 392—3, 394, 406—7; ancestry, 350; enters Palace of Westminster, 351; handed over to Richard III, 388—9
Yorkists, 346—7, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353—4, 367, 373—4
Yorkshire, 289
Ypres, William of, 83
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