The Norman Conquest (75 page)

Abernethy (Perths),
252
,
289

Abingdon, abbey (Oxon),
215
,
235
,
239
,
242
,
249
,
260
,
277
,
281
; abt of,
see
Adelelm; Ealdred

Adam of Bremen, chronicler,
155
,
225

Adela, dau. of Robert the Frisian, wife of Cnut IV,
305

Adela, mother of Matilda,
67

Adelelm, abt of Abingdon,
242
,
260
,
262
,
277
,
281

Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile,
103
,
106

L’Aigle (Orne),
205
,
274
–
5

Ailnoth of Canterbury,
345

Ailred of Rievaulx (d. 1167),
350
–
3

Aire, river,
228

Alan, count of Brittany (1008–40)
51
–
2

Alençon (Orne),
81
–
2
,
187

Alexander, bp of Lincoln (1123–48)
347

Alexander II, pope (1061–73)
142
–
3
,
145
,
173
,
187
,
201
,
236
,
239
,
256
,
263
,
266
,
300

Alfred (d. 1037), ætheling, brother of ETC,
16
,
100
,
144
,
294
; exile in Normandy,
15
,
19
–
21
,
34
,
51
; return to England,
35
,
361
; murder of,
36
–
9
,
62
,
64
,
71
–
3
,
263

Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (871–99)
12
–
13
,
138
,
341

Amatus of Montecassino, chronicler,
186

Ambrières (Mayenne),
93

Amiens (Somme),
167
; bp of,
see
Guy

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (
selected references):
importance,
5
; frustrating silences or brevity,
5
,
38
,
109
,
115
,
120
,
217
,
252
,
300
; begun in Alfred’s day,
13
; different versions of,
36
,
78
,
102
; used by John of Worcester,
39
; used by Henry of Huntingdon,
322
; E version pro-Godwine,
78
,
104
,
133
; D version compiled in Ealdred’s circle,
102
,
104
; C version pro-Mercian, anti-Godwine,
104
,
123
,
162
; obituary of WTC,
333
–
4
; discontinued after Conquest,
341

Anglo-Saxons
see
English

Anjou,
80
–
2
,
85
,
90
,
110
–
11
,
234
,
254
,
273
,
304
,
351
; count of,
see
Fulk Nerra; Fulk Réchin; Geoffrey Martel; Geoffrey Plantagenet

Anna of Kiev (d. 1075), queen of France, mother of Philip I,
110
,
255

Anselm of Bec, abp of Canterbury (1093–1109)
259

Ansgar the Staller,
278

Aquitaine,
151
,
303
; count of,
84
;
see also
Eleanor

archdeacons,
257
,
339

archers,
179
–
80
,
183
,
237
,
305

architecture,
257
–
8
,
296
–
8
,
334
,
353

arms, armour
see
weapons

Arnulf, count of Flanders (1070–1)
254

Arques (Seine-Mar.), castle of,
83
,
85
,
183
; count of,
see
William

Arundel (Sussex), castle and rape,
215

Arwystli (Powys),
294

Asbjorn, brother of Swein Estrithson,
226
,
229
,
242
–
3
,
245

Assandun
(Essex), battle of,
18
,
24
,
99

Atcham (Salop),
205
,
379
; St Eata’s church,
205

Athelstan, king of England (924–39),
138
,
252

Aubrey de Grandmesnil,
275

Aversa (Italy),
287
; bp of,
see
Guitmund

Avon, river,
220

Axholme, isle of (Lincs),
227

Ælfflæd, granddau. of Earl Uhtred, wife of Earl Siward,
127
,
253

Ælfgar, earl of East Anglia and Mercia (d.
c.
1062),
75
,
101
,
104
–
5
,
128
,
157
,
321

Ælfgifu of Northampton, wife of King Cnut,
30
–
1
,
33

Ælfheah, abp of Canterbury (d. 1012),
15
,
24
,
259

Ælfhelm, ealdorman of York (d. 1006),
123

Ælfcic
, abt of Eynsham,
25

Ælfric Puttoc, abp of York (d. 1051),
39

Ælfwine, bp of Winchester (d. 1047),
42

Æthelmaer, bp of East Anglia,
239

Æthelred the Unready, king of England
14
–
19
,
24
,
28
,
30
,
39
,
72
,
75
–
6
,
263
–
4
,
284

Æthelric, bp of Durham (1041–56)
123
,
238
,
247

Æthelric, bp of Sussex (1058–70)
239

Æthelric, proposed abp of Canterbury,
69

Æthelric of Marsh Gibbon,
314
,
320

Æthelwig, abt of Evesham (d. 1078),
269
,
285

Æthelwine, bp of Durham (1056–70)
123
,
125
,
219
–
20
,
223
,
238
,
246
–
7

ÆEthelwold, abt of Abingdon,
260

Æthelwulf bp of Carlisle,
349

Bachrach, Bernard,
153

Baldwin, abt of Bury St Edmunds, ETC’s physician,
140
–
1

Baldwin V, count of Flanders (1035–67)
37
,
82
,
105
,
110
,
123
,
130
,
147
,
254

Baldwin VI, count of Flanders (1067–70)
254

Bamburgh (Northumb.),
121
; house of,
122
–
3
,
126
–
7
,
210
,
216
,
253
;
see also
Gospatric; Waltheof