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Authors: Harriet Harvey Harriet; Wood Harvey Wood
Eystein Orri
156
Fécamp, abbey of
146
feudalism, Norman
96–7
,
105–8
,
111–12
The Fight at Finnesburh
(heroic poem)
83
Fisher, H. A. L.
133–4
Flanders, Count of
see
Baldwin V, Count of Flanders; Robert le Frison
Flateyjarbók
19
Florence of Worcester
129–30
,
143–4
,
164
fortifications
Freeman, E. A.
182
Fuller, Major-Gen. J. F. C.
178
,
179–80
,
186
Gaimar, Geffrei,
L’Estoire des Engleis
228
Gate Fulford, battle of
149–50
,
152
,
157
,
179
Genesis
(heroic poem)
85
Geoffrey Martel, count of Anjou
41–3
,
94
,
131–2
,
203
Giffard/Gilfard, knight
222
Gilbert, Archdeacon of Lisieux
133
,
138–9
Gillingham, John
170
Godgifu (sister of Edward the Confessor)
15
,
22
,
33
Godwin, earl of Wessex
16–17
,
71
,
73
,
204
Goebbels, Joseph,
53
gold, in Anglo-Saxon England
67–72
Golding, William
1
Gospatric
123
Grainge, Christine and Gerald
160
Gregory VII, Pope (Cardinal Hildebrand)
133–4
,
135
,
139–40
,
142–3
Gruffydd ap Llewellyn
45
,
94
,
104
,
167
Gunnhild (daughter of Earl Godwin)
80
Gunnhild (sister of Sweyn Forkbeard)
8
Guy, Bishop of Amiens,
Carmen de Hastingæ Proelio
146
,
156–7
,
159
,
165
,
171
,
174–5
,
181–4
,
191–2
,
220–3
Guy, Count of Brionne
41
Guy, Count of Ponthieu
48
,
50
,
52
,
221
Gyrth Godwinson, Earl of East Anglia
3
,
28
,
168–9
,
186–7
,
227
Gytha (wife of Earl Godwin)
35
handfast marriage
11
,
74
,
233
n.
iv
Harald Sigurdsson Hardrada, King of Norway
34–5
,
36
,
126
Harald Sweynson, king of Denmark
12
Hardrada
see
Harald Sigurdsson Hardrada, King of Norway
Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark
8
,
14
Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex
Harold I Harefoot, King of England
11
,
15–17
Harold II, King of England
coinage
130
Danish support for
133
death
180
,
192–6
,
199
,
214–6
,
221
,
222
,
230
,
231
defeat at Hastings
3–4
,
33
,
45–6
,
171
election and coronation
127–9
,
131
,
138–9
,
226
laws
130
as military leader
94
,
104
,
116
,
164–70
and Stamford Bridge
116
,
151–2
,
156–7
and use of cavalry
109–10
and William of Normandy
131
see also
Harold Godwinson; Stamford Bridge, battle of
Harthacnut, King of England
11
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
20
,
34
,
36
Hastings
Hastings, battle of
hauberk (coat of mail)
104
,
113
,
114
,
117
,
183
Henry the Fowler, King of Germany
235
n.
xxviii
Henry of Huntingdon,
Historia Anglorum
49
,
65–6
,
182
,
195
,
221
,
231–2
Henry I, King of England
110
,
211
,
236
Henry I, King of France
41–3
,
131–2
,
203
Henry II, King of England
60
,
79
,
212
,
214
Henry III, Emperor
28
Hereward the Wake
205
heriot (tax)
103–4
heroic tradition
214–6
Hildebrand, Cardinal, see Pope Gregory VII
Hollister, C. Warren
102–3
housecarls
Hugh, Duke of the Franks
63–4
Hugh Capet, King of the Franks
46
hundred system
infantry
Italy, Normans in
113
,
134–5
,
141
,
209
kingship
knights
Konrad the Peaceable, Duke of Burgundy
235
n.
xxviii
laity, and literacy
78–81
lances
118–19
land tenure
61
Land Waster (standard of Harald Hardrada)
150
,
153
,
156
Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury
205–6
,
208
,
220
Latin, in Norman England
81
,
207
Lawson, M. K.
182
Lemmon, Lieut. Col. C. H.
186–7
,
188–9
,
191
Leo IX, Pope
136
Leofric, Earl of Mercia
19–21
,
23
,
39
,
204
Leofwine Godwinson, Earl of Kent
3
,
24
,
25–6
,
186–7
Leonidas, King of Sparta
1
Lepanto, battle of
1
Lincoln, battle of
110
Lindisfarne, sack of (793)
66
Lindisfarne Gospels
70
literacy
literature
London
maces, Norman
120
Magna Carta
2
Magnus Olafson, King of Norway
34
,
35
,
36
,
148
Malcolm III, King of Scotland
131
,
148
,
201
Maldon, battle of
7–8
,
58
,
88
,
95
,
100
,
109
,
215
Malfosse, the
196
Malory, Sir Thomas
110
Morte d’Arthur
91
Marathon, battle of
1–2
Margaret, daughter of Edward the Atheling
29
Marianus Scotus, Chronicle of
226
Marie de France
214