Chapter XIV: Appendix (4)

Ecgbryhtesstan, identifications of, 102 _n._

Edgar, king of the West Saxons, panegyrics on, in Chronicle and Laws, 12;
eclipses the fame of Alfred, 67, 129;
English and Danes reconciled on basis of law of, 67;
made a Confessor, 67;
called ‘darling of the English,’ 161 _n._

Edington, Wilts., battle of, 57, 61, 102, 103, 162.

Edmund, St., king of the East Angles, martyred by the Danes, 88.

Edmund, king of the West Saxons, panegyrics on, in Chronicle and Laws,
12.

Edward, king of the West Saxons, son of Alfred, 96 _n._, 196;
called ‘the Great,’ 96 _n._;
military policy of, 111;
defeats the Danes at Farnham, 114;
blockades them on the Colne, 114-5;
captures Benfleet, 115;
document addressed to, 125-6;
carries out Alfred’s foundation of the New Minster, 129 _n._

Edward the Confessor, king of England, transference of See of Devon and
Cornwall to Exeter by, 18, 19.

Edward I, king of England, comparison of, with Alfred, 200-2;
bases the constitution on popular representation, 210;
one of the creators of England’s greatness, 200 _n._

Egbert, king of the West Saxons, Celts under, take part with the Danes,
43;
advance of Wessex under, 85;
reduces the Welsh, 85;
makes Æthelwulf king of Kent, 85;
his dominions divided at his death, 86;
his sojourn on the Continent, 86;
union of England under, 210.

Egbert, king of part of Northumbria, set up by the Danes, 88.

Einhard, his life of Charles the Great modelled on Suetonius’ life of
Augustus, 10.

Elfred, _see_ Æthelred.

Elias III, patriarch of Jerusalem, Alfred corresponds with, 16, 33, 34,
132;
miscalled Abel, and Bel, 33-4.

Elised, _see_ Helised.

Elizabeth, queen of England, ecclesiastical policy of, 211.

Ely, Cambridgeshire, Hereward’s defence of, 59.

England, English, kings of, _see_ Æthelred II, Canute, Edward the
Confessor, Edward I, George III, Henry II, Henry VI, Henry VIII,
John, Richard I, William I;
queens of, _see_ Elizabeth, Victoria.

Englefield, near Reading, Berks., Danes defeated at, 93.

Essex ceded to the Danes, 105.

Ethandun, identifications of, 102-3 _n._

Ethelwerd, the Chronicler, corruption of text of, 21, 60;
terminology of, 37 _n._;
relation of, to the Chron., 51 _n._, 60;
obscurity of, 60;
his panegyric on Alfred, 12, 198;
exaggerates Alfred’s position, 63 _n._;
mentions Alfred’s Boethius, 185.

Eugenius IV, Pope, Henry VI applies to, for Alfred’s canonisation,
199 _n._

Exe. R., Devon, Alfred blockades mouth of, 101.

Exeter, Devon, question of grant to Asser of See at, 18-20;
transference of bishopric to, under Edward the Conf., 18-20;
Danes steal away to, 49, 107;
Danes occupy, 101;
recovered from the Danes by Alfred, 19, 102;
besieged by the Danes, but relieved by Alfred, 115, cf. 117.

Faremoûtier-en-Brie (Fara), Lupus and Felix at monastery of, 18 _n._

Farnham, Surrey, Edward defeats the Danes at, 114.

Felix, Frankish secretary of Æthelwulf, Lupus of Ferrières corresponds
with, 17, 18 _n._;
previously at Faremoûtier, 17, 18 _n._

Fernmail, son of Mouric, joint king of Gwent, submits to Alfred, 42, 44.

Ferrières, dép. Loiret, abbot of, _see_ Lupus.

Florence of Worcester, relation of, to Asser, 15, 22, 23, 25, 28, 34,
49, 60, 64;
his panegyric on Alfred, 12, 60, 197.

France, king of, _see_ Louis, St.

Francia, term applied to the Carolingian Empire, 41.

Frankish element in Asser, 17, 18.

Franks, kings of, _see_ Carloman, Charles the Great, Charles the Bald,
Charles the Fat, Clovis, Louis the Stammerer, Louis of Northern
France;
Felix, a Frank, 18 _n._

Frisia, wiking settlements in, 119, 120.

Frisians, serve in Alfred’s navy, 119;
and in that of Charles the Great, 120 _n._;
language of, akin to English, 119 _n._;
settle in England, 120.

Fulham, Middlesex, Danes evacuate, 104.

Fulk, abp. of Rheims, letter of, to Abp. Plegmund, 128;
doubtful letter of, to Alfred, 138-9;
abbot of St. Bertin’s, 137-8;
murder of, 138 _n._

Fyrd, the native militia of the English, reorganised by Alfred, 110.

Galli, term applied to inhabitants of the Western Kingdom, 41.

Gallia, term applied to the Western Kingdom, 41.

George III, king of England, influence of character of, 211.

Germania, name given by Welsh writers to Norway, 40, 41;
Bede’s and Alfred’s uses of the term, 40 _n._, 160.

Glastonbury, Somerset, St. Neot said to have been a monk at, 56;
Alfred gives fragment of the True Cross to, 58 _n._

Glewissig, South Welsh kingdom, including the district between lower Usk
and Towy, 44;
king of, _see_ Howel.

Gloucester, Mercian Witenagemót held at, 13;
St. Oswald’s body translated to, 35.

Gregory the Great, Pope, soul of Trajan granted to prayers of, 209;
his Moralia used by Alfred, 191;
his Dialogues, 8, 143-4;
used by Alfred in the ‘Blostman,’ 143-4;
Bede’s style influenced by, 170 _n._;
Anglo-Saxon translation of, 8, 141, 171;
two recensions of, 145-6, 169;
mentioned in Asser, 52, 141;
cited by Ælfric, 167;
ascribed to Werferth, 142, 169;
Alfred writes the preface to, 142-3;
relation of, to Bede translation, 169, 170;
his Pastoral Care, 8, 151-2;
cited in Asser, 52;
Alfred’s translation of, 8, 10, 152-5;
Preface to, 11, 20, 52, 136, 139, 140, 143, 193, 196, 199.

Grimbald, a monk of St. Bertin’s, 137;
brought to England by Alfred, 17, 137;
said to have been escorted to England by Asser, 18, 139;
chronology of his life, 137-8;
letter of Fulk of Rheims respecting, 138-9;
made abbot of the New Minster, 139;
dies, 139;
helps Alfred with the Pastoral Care, 137, 143 _n._

Gualia, Wales, use of term, 37 _n._

Guerier, St., alleged visit of Alfred to shrine of, in Cornwall, 26, 29.

Guthfrith, wiking chief, receives a grant of West Friesland, 120 _n._

Guthrum, Danish king of East Anglia, invasion of, 57-9;
his submission and baptism, 42, 46, 68, 71, 103;
death of, 109, 110.

Gwent, South Welsh kingdom, including parts of Monmouthshire and
Herefordshire, kings of, _see_ Brochmail, Fernmail, Mouric.

Hadrian I, Pope, crowns Louis the Pious as king of Aquitaine, 74.

Hæsten, Danish chief, his military movements, and treacherous
negotiations, 113, 115.

Halfdene, Danish chief, 104.

Hampshire, men of, rally to Alfred, 102.

Harold Hardrada, king of Norway, called king of Germania, 41.

Heahmund, bishop of Sherborne, killed at Marton, 92.

Helised ap Teudyr, king of Brecheiniog, submits to Alfred, 42, 44.

Hemeid, king of Dyfed, commends himself to Alfred, 20, 42;
persecutes St. Davids, 42;
dies, 43.

Henry de Ferrers, owns Ashdown Manor in Domesday, 94.

Henry II, king of England, character of, by Stubbs, 2;
comparison of, with Alfred, 200;
English administrative system due to, 210.

Henry VI, king of England, applies to the Pope for Alfred’s
canonisation, 199 _n._

Henry of Huntingdon, his mistakes, 7;
relation of, to Chron., 60, 61;
his treatise De Contemptu Mundi, 178 _n._

Henry VIII, king of England, ecclesiastical policy of, 211.

Hereford, bishop of, _see_ Athelstan.

Hereward, his defence of the isle of Ely, 59 _n._

Hierosolyma, _see_ Jerusalem.

Howel, son of Rhys, king of Glewissig, dies at Rome in 885, 19, 44;
his crime, 19, 44;
submits to Alfred, 42.

Hubert, St., forged pedigree of, 57.

Huntingdonshire, translation of St. Neot’s relics to, 29.

Iglea, identifications of, 102 _n._

India, Alfred sends alms to, 65, 66, 99, 134;
first recorded instance of relations between England and, 134.

Ingulf, abbot of Croyland, Chronicle of, a forgery, but contains genuine
traditions, 66, 99.

Ingwar, Danish chief, 104.

Ireland, Alfred said to have been sent to, 62;
a good country for hunting, 83 _n._;
relations of Alfred with, 129, 131-2;
love of pilgrimage in Church of, 131-2;
relations of Charles the Great with, 131 _n._

Jacopone, his poem De Contemptu Mundi, 178.

Jehan de Meun, two French translations of Boethius’ Consolatio ascribed
to, 190.

Jerusalem, Alfred said to have sent alms to, 65;
three ‘Scots’ go to, 132;
account of pilgrimages to, 132-4;
Charles the Great founds a hospice and library at, 133;
patriarchs of, _see_ Elias, Theodosius.

Joan of Arc, Alfred compared with, 107.

John, king of England, character of, by Stubbs, 2.

John the Old Saxon, abbot of Athelney, 66 _n._, 137;
John Scotus Erigena confused with, 7;
military skill of, 16, 66 _n._;
brought to England by Alfred, 17, 137;
two of his monks try to murder, 129, 137;
helps Alfred with the Pastoral Care, 138, 143 _n._

John VIII, Pope, letter of, to Abp. Æthelred, 127-8.

John Scotus Erigena, commonly confused with John the Old Saxon, 7.

Joinville, his biography of St. Louis, 202.

Judith, second wife of Louis the Pious, 80.

Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, marriage with Æthelwulf, 17, 78,
80 _n._;
alleged marriage with Æthelbald, 17, 52, 76 _n._, 80.

Kenny Castle, _see_ Cynwit.

Kent, kings of, _see_ Æthelberht, Eadbald;
under-kings of, _see_ Æthelberht, Æthelwulf, Athelstan;
was Alfred ever under-king of? 74;
makes a separate agreement with the Danes, 87.

Langtoft, confusions of, 65.

Latin, the sole vehicle of Western mediaeval culture, 81, 82, 136;
decline of, in England, 82, 139, 140;
influence of, on early vernacular prose, 171.

Law, character of Anglo-Saxon, 121-2.

Lea, R., Danes fortify themselves on, but are forced to retire from,
117-8.

Leicester, confused with Chester, 9 _n._;
bishop of, _see_ Werebert.

Leigh, near Westbury, Wilts., Alfred advances to, 102.

Leo IV, Pope, letter of, to Æthelwulf, 70, 72;
confirms and anoints Alfred, 71-4, 76;
fortifies the Leonine suburb, 77;
his death, 76.

Liutgarde, wife of Charles the Great, dies 800, 17 _n._

Llandaff, Book of, cited, 37, 39 _n._, 43, 44.

Llunwerth, bishop of St. Davids, succeeds Nobis, 20, 44.

Llwmbert, _see_ Llunwerth.

London, captured by the Danes in 851, 109;
Danes winter at, 99, 100, 109;
retain possession of, under treaty of Wedmore, 105, 109;
acquired by Alfred, 108, 109;
Alfred the second founder of, 109;
committed to the care of ealdorman Æthelred, 109;
conference on fortifications of, 111;
reinforcements raised from, 115;
captured Danish ships brought to, 115;
garrison of, fail to storm Danish lines, 117.

Long Dean, Wilts., Witenagemót held at, 126.

Lothair I, Emperor, assists Leo IV to fortify the papal suburb, 77.

Louis the Pious, Emperor, refuses to read the old heathen poems, 38 _n._;
crowned king of Aquitaine, at the age of three, 74;
letter of Æthelwulf to, 74;
his sons rebel against, 79;
compared with Æthelwulf, 79;
crowned by Charles the Great, 80 _n._;
investiture of Charles the Bald by, 196 _n._

Louis the Stammerer, king of the Franks, 40.

Louis, king of Northern France, called king of the Franks, 40.

Louis, St., king of France, comparison of, with Titus, 161 _n._;
with Alfred, 200, 202.

Lupus, abbot of Ferrières, corresponds with Æthelwulf and Felix, 17,
18 _n._, 71 _n._;
previously at Faremoûtier, 18 _n._

Lymne, R., Kent, Danes enter mouth of, 112.

Macbeth, one of three ‘Scots’ who come to Alfred, 131.

Maelduin, the Voyage of, 132.

Maelinmain, one of three ‘Scots’ who came to Alfred, 131.

Malmesbury, Wilts., William of, _see_ William.

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, comparison of, with Alfred, 200.

Marinus, Pope, St. Neot said to have visited, 56-8;
grants privileges to English School at Rome, 58;
said to have sent a fragment of the True Cross to Alfred, 58.

Martia, legendary British Queen, 63.

Marton, Wilts., battle of, 92, 93, 95.

Mercia, Witenagemóts of, 13, 14;
division of, by the Danes, 24, 102;
not included in Saxonia, 38;
Alfred acquires part of, 39;
relation of, to Wessex, 85;
Danes invade, 88, 99, 100;
Welsh invade, 99;
western part of, cleared of the Danes, 104;
shire system introduced into, 121;
supplies Alfred with teachers, 136, cf. 139 _n._, 169;
kings of, _see_ Æthelbald, Beornred, Berhtwulf, Burgred, Ceolwulf,
Offa, Penda;
lady of, _see_ Æthelflæd;
ealdorman of, _see_ Æthelred.

Meretun, _see_ Marton.

Mersea, Essex, Danes retire to, 117.

Milton (King’s), Kent, Danes fortify themselves at, 113;
negotiations of Alfred with Danes at, 113, cf. 163.

Milus, Eastern Saint, 34.

Modus tenendi Parliamenti, unhistorical character of, 130 _n._

Modwenna, St., Alfred said to have been cured by, 63.

More, Sir Thomas, Hallam’s character of, 13;
imitates Boethius’ Consolatio, 179.

Mouric, king of Gwent, father of Brochmail and Fernmail, 42, 44.

Nachededorn, _see_ Naked-thorn.

Naked-thorn, name of a Berkshire Hundred and Manor in Domesday, 94.

Nelson, Lord, anecdote of, 163.

Neot, St., not identical with Athelstan, king of Kent, 6;
buried in Cornwall, 26, 29;
translated to Huntingdonshire, 29;
lives of, 24, 53-9, 67;
the source of baseless legends about Alfred, 24, 27, 28, 53, 54, 67;
made a son of Æthelwulf, 55, 57;
alleged devotion of Alfred to, 67, 68;
Annals of, their relation to Asser, 22.

Nero, Roman Emperor, Epistle to the Romans written under, 209.

Newminster, Winchester, Alfred plans the foundation of, 68, 129;
abbot of, _see_ Grimbald.

Nicholas I, Pope, dispatches pilgrims to the East, 132.

Nobis, bishop of St. Davids, expelled by Hemeid of Dyfed, 42;
dies in 873, 20;
succeeded by Llunwerth, 20, 44.

Northmen, use of the term, 87 _n._, _see_ Danes.

Northumbria, not included in Saxonia, 38;
Danes in, 42;
relation of, to Wessex, 85;
conquered by the Danes, 88;
their occupation of, recognised at Wedmore, 105;
relations of Alfred with, 113;
share of, in the campaigns of 893 ff., 113-5, 117-8;
state of learning in, 139, 140 _n._;
kings of, _see_ Aldfrid, Egbert, Oswald;
earl of, _see_ Siward.

Norway, called Germania by Welsh writers, 40, 41;
king of, _see_ Harold Hardrada.

Notker III, of St. Gallon, translates Boethius’ Consolatio into High
German, 189.

Nottingham, Danes winter at, 88;
Æthelred and Alfred march against, 88.

Novis, _see_ Nobis.

Odda, ealdorman of Devon, defeats the Danes, 103, 104, 106.

Odo, count of Paris, king of the Western Kingdom, 41 _n._

Offa, king of the Mercians, Eadburh, daughter of, 16;
his dyke, 37;
code of, 63 _n._;
Alfred made descendant of, 65;
his patronage of learning, 136.

Ohthere, a Northman, voyage of, 160.

Orosius, his universal history, 8, 157;
Alfred’s translation of, 8, 10, 110, 159-65;
relation of, to Chronicle, 146, 157-8;
to the Bede translation, 156-9;
to the Boethius translation, 159.

Osburh, first wife of Æthelwulf, and mother of Alfred, 81, 83, 84, 123;
not divorced by Æthelwulf, 84.

Oswald, St., king of the Northumbrians, his body translated from Bardney
to Gloucester, 34, 35.

Oxford, interpolation in Asser relating to, 23, 24;
legends relating to, 63, 68;
English and Danes reconciled at, 67;
University of, carries on Alfred’s work, 193;
bishop of, _see_ Stubbs, William.

Paris, description of, by Asser, 18;
count of, _see_ Odo.

Parker, Matthew, archbishop of Canterbury, interpolates the text of
Asser, 24.

Paul I, Pope, sends a horologe to Pippin the Short, 131.

Pavia, Eadburh of Wessex, a mendicant at, 16.

Penda, king of the Mercians, attacks the East Angles, 66.

Persia, SS. Milus and Senneus martyred in, 34;
king of, sends a clock to Charles the Great, 131 _n._

Petrarch, his treatise De Contemptu Mundi, 178 _n._

Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea, his accessibility to suitors, 125.

Pilgrimages, passion for, in ninth century, 71.

Pippin, father of Charles the Great, Paul I sends a horologe to, 131.

Pippin, son of Charles the Great, unmarried, 17 _n._

Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury, 127, 139;
attends the conference of Chelsea, 111;
letter of Fulk of Rheims to, 128;
a Mercian, 136;
helps Alfred with the Pastoral Care, 138, 143 _n._

Psalter, Alfred’s fondness for, 16, 140, 153;
said to have translated part of, 147-9.

Reading, Berks., battles of, 93, 98;
Danes abandon, 99.

Relics, passion for, in ninth century, 71, 144-5.

Repton, Derbyshire, Danes winter at, and destroy monastery of, 100.

Rheims, dép. Marne, archbishop of, _see_ Fulk.

Rhys, father of Howel, king of Glewissig, 19, 42, 44.

Richard I, king of England, character of, by Stubbs, 2.

Rochester, Kent, besieged by the Danes, and relieved by Alfred, 107, 108;
captured Danish ships brought to, 115.

Roger of Wendover, 25;
uses a life of St. Neot, 54;
his mistakes and confusions, 65, 76 _n._

Rome, Werthryth goes to, 13;
Howel ap Rhys dies at, 19, 44;
English School at, _see_ Saxones;
St. Neot visits, 56;
visits of Alfred to, 70-6;
Æthelwulf’s visit to, 74-6;
intellectual poverty of, 71;
pilgrimages to, 71;
attacks of the Saracens on, 77;
Leonine suburb of, 77;
Burgred dies at, 98 _n._, 100, cf. 199;
Alfred sends missions and alms to, 12, 99, 134-5;
three ‘Scots’ go to, 132;
dangers of a pilgrimage to, 134.

Rotri Mawr, king of North Wales, slain in 877, 19, 43;
sons of, 9, 42;
Anaraut, son of, 42;
avenged, 43.

Roughthorn Farm, possibly marked the site of battle of Ashdown, 94.

Rudolf, count of Upper Burgundy, king of the Middle Kingdom, 41 _n._

Rudolf, abbot of St. Bertin’s, 137.

St. Bertin’s, Flanders, Grimbald, a monk of, 137;
Fulk and Rudolf, abbots of, 137;
attacks of Count Baldwin on, 137.

St. Davids, Pembrokeshire, Alfred’s protection desired for, 19, 42;
Asser returns to, 21;
Hemeid persecutes, 42;
bishops of, _see_ Asser, Llunwerth, Nobis.

St. Omer, dép. Pas-de-Calais, France, St. Winnoc’s body translated to,
and from, 35 _n._

Saracens, ravages of, 77;
power of, in Italy and the East, 132-4;
good police of, 134.

Saxones, use of term by Asser, 37-9;
school of, at Rome, 39, 58;
burnt, 76;
restored by Æthelwulf, 76.

Saxonia, meaning of, in Asser, 37, cf. 18, 85.

Saxons, the Old _or_ Continental, invaded by the Danes, 40;
4,500 of, massacred by Charles the Great, 201.

Scots, _see_ Ireland.

Seals, use of, in England, 176 _n._

Secundarius, meaning of title, 40, 89-91.

Seine, R., Danes retire to, 118.

Senneus, Eastern saint, 34.

Sergius II, Pope, ravages of Saracens under, 77.

Severn, R., Danes march up, 116;
march to, 118.

Severus, wall of, 158-9, 161 _n._

Shaftesbury, Wilts., one of Alfred’s ‘burgs,’ 129 _n._;
monastery of, founded by Alfred, 68, 128.

Sherborne, possible division of diocese of, 20, 21 _n._;
bishops of, _see_ Aldhelm, Asser, Heahmund, Wulfsige.

Shire-system, not invented by Alfred, 6, cf. 121.

Shoebury, Essex, Danes fortify themselves at, 115, 117.

Sicily, conquered by Saracens, 77.

Sigbert, ex-king of the East Angles, leads his subjects against Penda,
66.

Simeon of Durham, relation of, to Asser, 23, 31, 32, 34, 64;
double recension of part of, 31, 32, 61, 62.

Simon de Montfort, experiment of representation tried by, 210.

Sithiu, _see_ St. Omer.

Siward, earl of Northumbria, anecdote of, 61.

Somerset, men of, rally to Alfred, 102;
ealdormen of, _see_ Æthelnoth, Eanwulf.

Southwick, Hants, priory of, formerly owned Cotton MS. Otho, B. xi,
168 _n._

Spain, ravages of Danes in, 77.

Stour, R., Essex, wikings defeated at mouth of, 64, 108.

Stubbs, William, Lord Bishop of Oxford, his character as an historian
and view of history, 1-3;
his hopefulness, 3;
loss to the Church by his death, 3-4.

Suetonius, his life of Augustus copied by Einhard, 10.

Swale, R., Kent, Danes enter, 113.

Swanage, Dorset, Danish fleet wrecked off, 101.

Tanistry, institution of, 89.

Teudyr ab Elised, king of Brecheiniog, father of Helised ap Teudyr,
42, 44.

Thames, R., Danes driven across, 114;
march up, 115, 116;
draw their ships up, 117.

Thanes, increase of, under Alfred, 111, 112.

Thanet, Kent, Danes winter in, 87.

Theodoric, the Ostrogoth, his treatment of Boethius, 178-9.

Theodosius, patriarch of Jerusalem, 34 _n._, 133.

Thomas, St., the Apostle, _see_ India.

Thorney, island on the Hertfordshire Colne, Danes blockaded in, 114-5.

Titus, Roman Emperor, anecdote of, 161;
St. Louis compared to, 161 _n._

Tolius, mythical monk of Croyland, 66.

Torksey, Lincs, Danes winter at, 100.

Trajan, Roman Emperor, mediaeval legend of, 209.

Tyne, R., Egbert, king of district north of, 88;
Danes winter on, 100.

Ubba, Danish chief, defeated at Kenny Castle, 104.

Verberie, France, dép. Oise, Æthelwulf marries Judith at, 78.

Verden, Hanover, Charles the Great executes 4,500 Saxons at, 201 _n._

Victoria, queen of England, comparison of, with Alfred, 200, 210;
funeral sermon on, 207-13.

Wales, Danes retire to, 117;
kings of North, _see_ Anaraut, Rotri.

Wallingford, Berks., Caesar fights a battle near, 158.

Wanating, _see_ Wantage.

Wantage, Berks., Alfred born at, 22, 70.

Wardour, Wilts., Alfred at, 125.

Wareham, Dorset, Danes occupy, and evacuate, 100, 101.

Wedmore, Somerset, Guthrum’s chrism-loosing at, 103.

Welsh, act in concert with the Danes, 99, cf. 43;
princes of, submit to Alfred, _see_ Alfred;
co-operate against the Danes, 116.

Wendover, Bucks, Roger of, _see_ Roger.

Werebert, bishop of Leicester, 137 _n._

Werferth, bishop of Worcester, 127;
robbed of woods at Woodchester, 14;
his heroism, 53;
called St. Werferth, 53, 67;
friendship of, with Æthelnoth, 106;
a Mercian, 136, 169;
translation of Gregory’s Dialogues ascribed to, 142, 169;
Boethius translation wrongly assigned to, 185 _n._

Werthryth, widow of Cered, 13;
disposes of her land to Cuthwulf, 13;
her title-deeds carried off by the Danes, 13.

Werwulf, Mercian priest, chaplain to Alfred, 136.

Wessex, relations of, to other kingdoms, 85;
cleared of the Danes, 104;
Danes ravage coasts of, 118;
kings of, _see_ Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred, Æthelwulf, Alfred,
Athelstan, Beorhtric, Cuthred, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Egbert;
bishop of, _see_ Birinus.

Wight, Isle of, naval engagement off, 119.

William I, king of England, owns the site of the battle of Ashdown, 94;
one of the creators of England’s greatness, 210.

William of Malmesbury, his confusions and mistakes, 7;
his account of Alfred, 62, 151;
had special sources for Athelstan’s reign, 62;
relation of, to Asser and Chron., 62;
his assertion that Alfred translated part of the Psalter, 147-50;
librarian of Malmesbury, 150;
his account of Alfred’s Boethius translation, 188-9.

Willibald, St., pilgrimage of, to Jerusalem, 134 _n._

Wilton, Wilts., battle of, 98, 99.

Wilts., men of, rally to Alfred, 102;
ealdorman of, _see_ Æthelhelm.

Wimborne, Dorset, Æthelred interred at, 98.

Winchester, Æthelwulf said to have been bishop of, 7;
Asser taken ill at, 21;
captured by Danes, 79, 87;
New Minster at, _see_ Newminster;
connexion of Chronicle with, 147, 151;
and of Domesday with, 151;
Alfred buried at, 198;
bishops of, _see_ Ælfheah, I and II, Æthelwold.

Winnoc, St., his body translated from Wormhoult to St. Omer, and thence
to Bergues, 35 _n._

Woodchester, Gloucestershire, bishop Werferth robbed of woods at, 14.

Worcester, fortified by Æthelred and Æthelflæd, 111;
bishop of, _see_ Werferth;
Florence of, _see_ Florence.

Wormhoult, dép. Nord, France, St. Winnoc’s body translated from, 35 _n._

Wrekin, the, Shropshire, Danes in the district of, 75.

Wulfsige, bishop of Sherborne, a copy of the Pastoral Care addressed
to, 20;
succeeded by Asser, 20 _n._

Wulfstan, voyage of, 160.

York, Danes at, 92;
Æthelnoth attacks the Danes at, 117 _n._

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