The Demon's Brood (46 page)

Giffard, John
130

Giles of Rome
185

Gisors
39

Glastonbury
154

Gloucester Abbey
143

Gloucester, Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of
84
,
85
,
97–8
,
101

Gloucester, Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of
123
,
125
,
126–7
,
132

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of
198
,
212
,
222
,
225
,
226
,
229
,
234
,
235
,
236

Gloucester, Isabella, Countess of
46

Gloucester, Robert, Earl of
6
,
7
,
9
,
10
,
17

Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of
177
,
178
,
179–80
,
181–3
,
189
,
193

Glyndwr, Owain
xix
,
196
,
200
,
201
,
202
,
203
,
205
,
206
,
211
,
214

Gower, John
174
,
176
,
199

Grandson, Othon de
98

Gray, John de, Bishop of Norwich
52–3

Great Council (Curia Regis)
14

Great Famine (1315–22)
129

Great Parliament (1265)
83

Great Schism
181
,
222

Great Slump (1440–80)
241
,
261
,
268

Green, Sir Henry
188
,
195

Green, John Richard
291

Gregory VII, Pope
22

Gregory
IX
, Pope
77

Gregory
X
, Pope
93

Grey, Sir Thomas
214

Grosseteste, Bishop Robert
81
,
85

Guala Bicchieri, Cardinal
64

Guesclin, Bertrand du
165–6

Gurdon, Sir Adam
92

Halidon Hill, battle of (1333)
152
,
156

Hampstead Marshall
154

hanging, drawing and quartering
103
,
116

Harclay, Sir Andrew
134
,
136

Harfleur
217–18
,
222
,
237

Harlech Castle
103
,
202
,
206

Harvey, John
174

Hastings, William, Lord
258
,
262
,
263
,
279–80

Hazlitt, William
290–1

Henry I
4
,
5
,
15

Henry II
xix
,
8–31
,
92

appearance
13–14

and Arthurian legend
20

at war with Louis VII
11–12

at war with Stephen
10
,
12

bastard children
21

birth and early life
9

character and qualities
17–18

claims English throne
8–9
,
12

conflict with sons
21–2
,
25–6
,
29
,
31

coronation
13

death of
31

Duke of Brittany
16

Duke of Normandy
10–11

erudition
20

financial reforms
15

heir to Stephen
13

invasion of Ireland
24–5

legal administration
15–16

marries Eleanor of Aquitaine
11

rages
21

relations with Becket
22
,
23–4
,
25

relations with Richard
30–1

and the Young King's rebellion
25–6
,
27

Henry III
66–87

and the barons' war
78–9

appearance
68–9

character and qualities
69–70

coronation
67
,
68

Crusading plans
77

cult of Edward the Confessor
76

death of
86

French campaigns
70–1
,
74–5

homage to Louis IX
80

piety
70

and the Provisions of Oxford
79–80
,
81
,
82
,
85

and Simon de Montfort
66
,
74
,
77
,
78–9
,
80
,
81
,
82
,
83–5

Henry IV Bolingbroke
xix
,
178
,
179
,
184
,
185–6
,
192–209

appearance
197

and Archbishop Scrope's rebellion
204

and the Armagnac–Burgundian dispute
206–7
,
208

banished by Richard II
186–7
,
198
,
211

character and qualities
193
,
197–9

claims the throne
187–8
,
190
,
192
,
197

coronation
195

Crusader
194

illness and death
204
,
205–6
,
207
,
209

in literature and national myth
290–1

Percy rebellions
199–202
,
206

plots and risings against
195
,
196–7
,
199–202
,
203
,
204
,
206

and Richard II's deposition
189–90

Scottish expedition
196

spouses
see
Bohun, Mary de; Joan of Navarre

Welsh campaigns
196
,
198
,
202
,
203
,
204
,
205
,
206

Henry V
210–30

Agincourt
19–21
,
227

appearance
215–16

character and qualities
215

claim to the throne
211

coronation
212

death of
229–30

Hundred Years War
210–11
,
213–14
,
217–25
,
228–9

in literature and national myth
291

Lollard persecution
211–12
,
213
,
216

Lollard plot against
213

Normandy invasion
223–4

Prince of Wales
198
,
200
,
201
,
202
,
206
,
207
,
208
,
211

recognised as ‘Heir and Regent of France'
225–6

relations with the Church
216
,
227–8

Southampton Plot (1415)
214

spouse
see
Catherine of Valois

Welsh campaigns
211

Henry VI
229
,
233–50
,
255
,
260
,
261
,
262

appearance
238–9

asceticism
240

character and qualities
239–41

coronation
234

crowned King of France
235

death of
248–9
,
273

Duke of York's protectorate
241–2
,
243

and Duke of York's rising
238

flees to Scotland
246

Hundred Years War
234–7
,
238

imprisoned in the Tower
247–8

in literature and national myth
291

mental breakdown
241
,
242

posthumous cult of
249

Readeption
247–8
,
262

‘Rout of Ludford'
244

spouse
see
Margaret of Anjou

Wars of the Roses
241–7
,
248
,
249

Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
34
,
39

Henry VII (Henry Tudor)
281–2
,
283
,
284

Bosworth
286–7

claim to the throne
285

lands in England
285

Henry the Young King, son of Henry II
21
,
23–4
,
25
,
26
,
27
,
28

Henry of Huntingdon
7

Hereford, Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of
98
,
107
,
133
,
134

Hexham, battle of (1464)
256

Higden, Ranulph
121
,
199

Hoccleve, Thomas
154

Holinshed, Raphael
166
,
289

Holland, Sir Thomas
154

Howden, Roger
34–5
,
42–3

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln
17
,
35
,
42
,
52

Hugh of Hereford
14

Hume, David
290

Hundred Rolls
94

Hundred Years War
xix
,
155
,
156–61
,
162
,
163–6
,
177
,
182
,
209
,
234–7
,
238
,
256
,
259
,
266–8

Hywel Dda code
101
,
103

Ingelger
3

Innocent III, Pope
53
,
57
,
58
,
60
,
63
,
71

Isaac Komnenos, ‘Emperor'
35
,
36

Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France
225

Isabel of Gloucester
33
,
46

Isabella of Angoulême, Queen consort of England
46
,
50–1
,
75

Isabella of France, Queen consort of England
120
,
121
,
123
,
125
,
128–9
,
132–4
,
137
,
138–9
,
140
,
141
,
142
,
143
,
148–9
,
150
,
151

Isabella of Valois, Queen consort of England
182

Jaffa
37
,
38

James III, King of Scotland
275
,
276

James of Savoy
103

Jerusalem
29
,
32
,
37–8
,
194

Jews
15
,
25
,
27

under Edward I
104

under Henry III
78
,
79
,
85

under John
54
,
61

under Richard I
33

Joan of Arc
234–5

Joan of England, Queen of Sicily34
35
,
38

Joan of Kent
154

Joan of Navarre, Queen consort of England
198
,
227

John, King
21
,
28
,
30
,
31
,
33
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
44–65
,
67
,
69

administrative reforms
54

appearance
50

character and qualities
50
,
51
,
56

civil war
62–3

conflict with barons
55–7
,
58
,
60–3

coronation
45

crosses the Wash
64–5

death of
65

and the death of Arthur of Brittany
46–7

excommunication
53–4
,
57

French campaigns
46–9
,
58–9

grants Magna Carta
61–2

in literature and national myth
289–90

and invasion of Prince Louis (Louis VIII)
63–4

Irish campaign
55

loses Normandy
45–8
,
49
,
59

papal vassal
57

quarrel with the Church
51–2
,
53

Scottish policy
55

spouses
see
Gloucester, Isabella, Countess of; Isabella of Angoulême

wealth
54–5

John II, Duke of Burgundy
224
,
225

John II, King of France
162
,
164

John
XXII
, Pope
150

John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond
97
,
113
,
117
,
133
,
134
,
139

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
153
,
166
,
167
,
168
,
171–2
,
174
,
176
,
177
,
179
,
180
,
181
,
183
,
186
,
193
,
194

John of Montfort
158–9
John of Powderham
131

Kenilworth Castle
85
,
140
,
243

Kent, Edmond, Earl of
138
,
139
,
149
,
154

King's Evil (scrofula)
96

King's Langley
122
,
128
,
196

Knights Hospitallers
37
,
93

Knights Templar
36
,
105
,
129

Knolles, Sir Robert
163