Chapter L

1070 Landfranc or Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury 212
1070 his dispute with Thomas, Archbishop
of York, touching the supremacy
of Canterbury 212, 213
1070 goes to Rome (A. D. 1072) 213
1070 the acts of his Prelacy,
(A. D. 1072-1089) 217, 223
1089 dies 248
1086 Landholders of England swear allegiance
to William I. 235
1083 Land-tax 232
616 Laurentius, Archbishop of Canterbury,
dies (A. D. 617) 26
896 Lee, river, blocked up by Alfred 112
920 Leicester taken by Æthelflæd 124
942 recovered from the Danes by Edward 135
439 Leo I. Pope 11
797 Leo III. Pope, deposed and restored 76
800 consecrates Charlemagne Emperor 77
814 dies 79
1046 Leo IX. Pope, holds a Synod at St.
Remy (A. D. 1048) 192
1054 dies 204
1001 Leofric, Sheriff, killed 156
1036 Leofric, Earl, supports Harold 186
1048 with Edward, at Gloucester 198
1057 dies 205
1066 founder of Coventry Abbey (A. D. 1057) 210
1044 Leofric, Bishop of Exeter 191
1052 Leofric, Abbot of Peterborough 203
1066 dies 209
1002 Leofsig, Alderman, banished 158
1001 Leofwin, High Sheriff, killed 156
1011 Leofwin, Abbot, taken at Canterbury 169
1022 Leofwin, Abbot of Ely, clears himself
before Pope Benedict 183
1066 Leofwin, the brother of Harold, killed 209
1070 Leofwin the Long, a Monk of Peterborough 215
854 Leothete (or Judith) marries Æthelwulf 87
1120 Light, supernatural, on the holy sepulchre 289
793 } { 73
1086 } { 235
1109 } Lightning { 278
1117 } { 285
1118 } { 286
1122 } { 290
626 Lilla, Edwin’s Thane, stabbed 28
942 Lincoln recovered by Edward 135
1123 burnt 295
1140 besieged 319
793 Lindisfarne pillaged 73
627 Lindsey, Christianity preached in 29
838 slaughter in 84
993 laid waste 152
1013 submits to Swegn 171
1014 to Cnut, and laid waste by
Æthelred 174
1013 Living Archbishop of Canterbury 170
1020 dies 183
1038 Living, Bishop of Devon, obtains the see
of Worcester and Gloucester 187
1044 dies 191
596 Lombards destroy St. Benedict’s monastery 23
887 Lombardy, war in 102
1117 earthquake in 286
839 London, slaughter at 84
886 repaired by Alfred 101
994 besieged by Anlaf and Swegn 152
1009 attacked by the Danes 165
1016 besieged by Cnut 178
1077 } fires of { 229
1086 } { 237
1097 tower walled round, and bridge repaired 264
896 London, men of, defeated 111
896 seize the Danish ships 112
1013 submit to Swegn 172
1016 treat with the Danes 181
1140 attempt to seize the
Empress Matilda 320
1046 Lothene plunders the coasts of England 192
840 Louis 1st, Emperor of France, dies 84
1108 Louis 6th King of France 278
1116 at war with the Count de Blois 284
1117 invades Normandy 285
1119 defeated by Henry 287
1120 makes peace with Henry 288
1124 again at war with Henry 296
1129 acknowledges Innocent II. as Pope 308
1140 Louis 7th divorced from his Queen Eleanor
(A. D. 1151) 322
189 Lucius, a King of Britain converted to
Christianity (A. D. 161) 7
897 Lucumon, Sheriff, killed 114
825 Ludecan, King of Mercia, killed 81