Chapter D: Danegelt, the, 173

Danes in Bayeux, 74; in England, 103; inheritance from, in
Northern England, 187; schemes for regaining England, 258

Dante, 362

Dickens' "Child's History of England," 328

Dinan, 266

Dive, river, 297

Dôl, 110, 266

Domesday Book, 328

Douglas, Scottish family of, 233

Drayton, 28

Dreux, county of, 109

Dunstan, 172

Durham, 339

E

Eadgyth (or Edith), the Confessor's wife, 188, 270

Eadgyth the Swan-throated, 310

Eadmund Ironside, 104, 177; poisoned, 178

Eadward the Confessor, 184; pious character of, 186; weakness of,
188, 240; likeness to Æthelred, 189; preference for Normans, 191;
promises the crown to William, 242; also to Harold, 257; illness
and death, 269; love of hunting, 329

Eadward the Outlaw, 257

Eadwine, Earl of Mercia, 320

Eadwy, 180

Emma of Normandy (or Ælfgifu), 102; marriage to Æthelred, 105;
flight to Normandy of, 106; sons of, 118; marries Cnut of England,
180

England, Danes in, 103; low condition of, 106; under misrule of
Æthelred, 173; election of kings in, 179; same king as Denmark and
Scandinavia, 181; under Cnut, 181; behind Norman civilization, 185;
division into earldoms, 187; building of castles in, 193; conquest
of, planned in Normandy, 240; Harold made king, 272; conquest of,
by William, 308; English character, 365

Epte, St. Claire on, 44

Eremburga, 145

Ericson, Leif, 18

Ermenoldus, 113

Espriota, 66; second marriage, 80, 96, 152

Estrith, 121, 123

Eu, 236

Eustace of Boulogne, 285

Evreux, 40

Exeter, siege of, 325

Exmes, 97, 111, 113

F

Falaise, 92; industries of, 97; Robert in, 121; the Conqueror in,
197

Fécamp, 89, 111, 303

Feudal system, 54, 154; in England, 316

Fitz-Osbern; see William Fitz-Osbern.

Flails used as weapons, 76

Flanders, Baldwin of, 121

Flanders, civilization of, 232; aids William, 285

Fleming, Scottish families of, 233

Forests, Norman, 95; English, 330

France, 54, 361

Franks, 55, 361

Freeman's (E. A.) History of the Norman Conquest, 190, 205, 224,
225, 280, 286, 355, 359

Froissart, 323

Fulbert the Tanner, 122

G

Gaul, 20

Geirrid the Norsewoman, 7

Geoffrey Martel, 250; dies, 252

Geoffrey Plantagenet, 358

Gerberga, 72; courage of, 82-85

Gerberoi, 334, 337

Germany, 54; sympathy for Louis Outremer, 83, 361

Gisla, 43

Godfrey of Brittany, 101

Godiva, Lady, 188

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