Chapter M: Maine, Count of, 280

Malcolm, 288

Mantes, 337

Matilda of Flanders, 233; marries William of Normandy, 237; builds
Church of the Holy Trinity in Caen, 238; influence in Normandy,
245; gives William a ship, 298; rules Normandy in his absence, 325;
favors her son Robert, 334; dies, 335

Mauger, 90; Archbishop of Rouen, 112, 124; opposition to William
and Matilda's marriage, 236; dismissal of, by William, 251

Mauritius, 238

Mercia, 187

Michael, Emperor of Constantinople, 128

Mirmande, 111

Monasticism, 215; value of, to Normandy, 230

Montgomery, house of, 152

Morkere, 288, 320

Mortain, Count of, 282

Mortemer, battle of, 248

Mount St. Michel, 265

N

Navarre, 54

Neal of St. Saviour, 201; at Val-ès-dunes, 208; goes to Brittany,
202; at Hastings, 306

Neustria, 35, 79

Normandy, Rolf's voyage to, 29, 34; formerly called Neustria,
35; independence of, 44; division of, 46; improvement of, 47;
loyalty to France, 57; relations with France, 60; holds its own
against Louis Outremer, 82; first money coined in, 84; the Norman
character, 91; manufactures of, 92; chivalry in, 93; attacked
by Æthelred, 103; changes in, 115; Christianity in, 118; social
progress of, 132; colonies in Southern Italy, 133; feudalism in,
153; knighthood of, 156; churches of, 168; plague in, 169; Æthelred
escapes to, 177; state of religion in, 217; architecture, 239,
240; enmity between Flanders and, 245; victory at Mortemer, 248;
craftiness of, 250; victory at Varaville, 252; Harold in, 268;
governed by William and Lanfranc, 279; preparation for war in, 295;
wins the battle of Hastings, 300; influence of Norman character,
356-360

Norman women, 323, 326

Northmen, voyages of, 4; literature of, 9; arts of the, 11;
ship-building of, 12; in Bayeux, 59

Norway, coast of, 1; metals in, 4; home-life in, 6; reputation of,
9; ships of, 12-14; colonies of, 19; women in, 23; pirates, 26;
Haarfager's government of, 30

O

Odo of Bayeux, 282, 304, 323; made Earl of Kent, 324; Italian
plot, 336; release from prison, 339; plots of, 347

Odo of France, 247

Olaf of Norway, 109, 175

Ordericus Vitalis, chronicle of, 334, 337

Orkneys, 1, 30, 293

Oslac, 60

Osmond de Centeville, 72

Otho William, 107

Otto of Germany, 86

P

Palermo, 146

Palgrave, Sir Francis, 89, 91

Paris, plundering of, 19, 40; borders of Normandy near, 125

Pavia, Lanfranc born in, 226

Peasantry, Norman, 93; complaint of, 95; parliament of and
commune, 96; in England, 330

Peter the Hermit, 351

Pevensey, 299

Philip, King of France, 337

Poictiers, 246

Ponthieu, 246; Harold shipwrecked in, 260; William's ships sail
for, 297

Popa, 43, 45, 60

Pyrenees, 246

Q

Quevilly, 275

R

Ragnar Lodbrok, 25

Rainulf of Ferrières, 68

Ralph Flambard, 349

Ralph of Tesson, 206

Ralph of Toesny, 249

Randolph of Bayeux, 202

Raoul of Ivry, 96; against the peasants, 97, 98

Ravens, black, 15

Renaud, 110

Richard of Evreux, 282

Richard the Fearless, 62; boyhood of, 66; made duke, 68; sent to
Laon, 71; charters of, 84; death of, 89

Richard the Good, 90; character of, 92; unruly subjects of, 96;
first peer of France, 99; marriage of, 101; war with Burgundy, 106;
war with Dreux, 108; death at Fécamp, 111

Richard the Third Duke, 110; becomes duke, 112; is poisoned, 113

Robert Curt-hose, 333; inherits Normandy, 339, 345; his character,
350; goes on pilgrimage, 351; imprisonment, 357

Robert of Eu, 282

Robert of France, 98; wit of, 99

Robert Guiscard, 134; reaches Amalfi, 141; becomes duke, 142

Robert of Jumièges, 193

Robert the Magnificent, 112; bad name of, 114; enemy of England,
118; marries the tanner's daughter, 122; goes on pilgrimage, 125;
dies, 129

Robert the Staller, 273, 300

Roger of Beaumont, 282, 322

Roger of Toesny, 195; colony in Spain, 196

Rögnwald, Jarl, of Möre, 31, 44

Rolf Ganger, ships, 29; profession, 32; siege of Rouen, 35; good
government, 41; made duke, 42; christened, 45; married Gisla, 45;
death, 50; tomb at Rouen, typical character, 53; tower in Rouen,
78; hall in Rouen, 121; Cnut's likeness to, 157, 278, 282, 306

Romance language, 55

/Roman de Rou/, 94, 112, 204, 209, 267, 340

Roman roads, 92

Rome, Church of, 118

Rouen, 20; siege of, 35; Rolf's wedding in, 45; Rolf's palace
in, 50; Richard the Fearless' coronation in, 69; ruins in, 86;
reception of William and Matilda in, 236

Rudolph of Burgundy, 57

Rye, castle of, 200

S

Sagamen, 8

Sandwich, 288

Salle, 212

Sanglac, battle of, 104

Saxons, 287

Scandinavian peninsula, 1-3

Sea-kings, 9

Senlac, 304, 309

Shakespeare, 91

Sicily, 131, 139; Norman ruins in, 145; aids William, 285;
crusades of, 350

Siward of Northumberland, 258

Slavery, William's suppression of, 332

Spain, 20, 25, 306

Sperling, 80, 152

Stamford Bridge, battle of, 293, 298, 305

Stephen of Blois, 358

Stephen of Boulogne, 358

Stigand, 273

St. Michel's Mount, 101

Sturlesson, Snorro, 28

St. Valery, 297

Sussex, 288, 290, 299

Swegen, King of Denmark, 175

T

Taillefer the minstrel, 306

Taxes, 352

Tennyson, Lord, 28

/Terra Regis/, 318

Thurkill the sacristan, 303

Tillières, 109; siege of, 136; castle of, 250

Tostig, 287, 292

Truce of God, 165

Turf-Einar, 32