The Norman Conquest (76 page)

Baring, Francis,
194
–
5

Barking (Essex),
201
–
2
,
297
,
378
–
9

Barnstaple (Devon),
224

Battle (Sussex),
176
; abbey,
178
,
237
,
333
,
382
; chronicler,
189

Baudri of Bourgeuil,
179
,
183
,
186

Bayeux (Calvados),
1
,
3
,
56
,
94
,
370
; cathedral,
3
,
276
,
367

Bayeux Tapestry,
1
–
5
,
10
,
11
,
49
,
112
–
15
,
118
–
19
,
133
–
5
,
139
,
146
–
7
,
150
,
169
–
71
,
174
,
177
,
179
–
86
,
190
,
207
,
277
,
370
,
377
–
8

Beaurain (Pas-de-Calais), castle,
113

Le Bec-Hellouin (Eure), abbey,
87
–
8

Bedfordshire,
315

Bellême (Orne),
81
; lords of,
81
;
see also
Robert of Bellême

Benedict X, antipope,
108

Beorn Estrithson (d. 1049),
63
,
65
,
75
–
6

Berengar de Tosny,
278

Berkhamsted,
196
,
199
,
378
–
9
; castle,
196
,
207

Berkshire,
76
,
195

Berlin,
3

Bertha, queen of France (d. 1093),
255

Bevere, island,
40

Beverstone (Glos),
71

Birhtnoth, ealdorman (d. 991),
27
–
8

Blæcmann, priest,
215

Bleddyn ap Cynfyn (d. 1075), Welsh king,
209
,
218

Blois-Chartres, count of,
80
,
84
;
see also
Stephen

Bonneville-Aptot,
88

Bonneville-sur-Touques (Calvados),
114

Bosham (Sussex),
72
,
109
,
113

Boulogne,
210
; count of,
see
Eustace

Brian, count,
215
,
224
,
227

Brionne (Eure), castle,
57
,
66
,
365

Bristol (Somerset),
220
,
222
,
294

Britford (Wilts),
129

Brittany,
22
,
57
,
114
–
15
,
151
,
234
,
267
,
270
,
272
,
305
,
370
; count of,
see
Alan

Brown, Prof. R. Allen,
186

Bruges,
37
–
8
,
68

Brussels,
167

Buckinghamshire,
195
,
314

Bulgaria,
156

Burgundy,
87
,
98
,
151

burhgeats
,
208

burhs
, boroughs,
12
,
122
,
208
,
266
,
296
,
310
,
353

Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk),
312
,
344
; abt of,
202

Byzantium,
92
,
155
–
7
,
201
,
360

Caen (Calvados),
56
,
58
,
94
,
112
,
149
,
204
,
256
,
258
,
273
,
303
,
330
–
1
,
349
,
365
; castle,
112
; Holy Trinity,
112
,
149
,
303
; St Stephen’s,
112
,
204
,
256
,
258
,
273
–
4
,
298
,
330
–
1
,
370

Caerwent (Gwent),
297

Cambridge,
270
; castle,
220

Cambridgeshire,
36
,
309
,
311
,
315

Canterbury,
2
,
15
,
24
,
69
,
104
,
119
, 193,
238
,
262
,
285
–
6
; cathedral,
70
,
257
–
9
,
298
,
333
; castle,
207
; St Augustine’s Abbey,
258
,
262
; abt of,
239
–
40
,
258
,
262

Capetians,
46

Caradog ap Gruffudd (d. 1081),
292
–
4

Cardiff (Glamorgan),
294

Carl, northern magnate,
265
; his sons and grandsons,
265

Carmen de Hastingae Proelio
[select],
167

Carolingian Empire,
45
–
6
,
48
;
see
also
France

Cassel (Nord), battle of,
254

castles, 111,
233
,
259
,
269
,
281
–
2
,
292
,
306
; Continental origins and purpose,
46
–
9
,
282
,
337
–
8
; constructed during WTC’s minority,
51
,
54
; destroyed after Val-ès-Dunes,
57
,
66
; on the Bayeux Tapestry,
1
–
2
,
171
,
207
; introduced to England by Normans,
7
–
8
,
207
–
9
,
219
–
21
,
334
,
353
; castle-guard, garrisons,
242
,
247
,
281
; destruction and suffering caused by,
313
,
333
; numbers,
334
;
see also individual castles by name

Catton (Yorks),
375

Cecilia (d. 1127), dau. of WTC,
149

ceorls,
26

Cerisy-la-Forêt, abbey,
87
,
89

Charford (Hants),
311