380; taken prisoner himself at
Winchester, and exchanged for
Stephen, 281. 390; defeats Ste-
phen at Wilton, 397; offers him
battle near Tetbury, 409; con-
tinues hostilities, 411. 416; his
death and character, 428, and note.
Robert Fitz-Hubert, a freebooter,
-359. 374.
Robert, bishop of Hereford, 402.
Roger, bishop of Salisbury, justiciary
and prime minister of Henry I.,
251; espouses the cause of Ste-
phen, 262; secretly favours the
empress Maud, 358; seized by
King Stephen, and his castles sur-
rendered, 270. 360; death and
character, 272. 370.
Roger, chancellor of Henry I., 361.
Roger, earl of Hereford, 404. 409, 410.
Rollo lands in Normandy, 155.
Romans first invade Britain, 12.
Romans withdraw from the island,
34.
Romanus, bishop of Rochester, 98.
Roman Wall, of Severus, 33.
Romescot, or Peter's pence, 133. 198.
Rutubi-portus (Richborough), 2.
Saxons, Jutes, and Angles arrive, 38.
Scots and Picts attack the Britons, 34.
Sebbi, king of the East-Saxons, 57.
106.
Sebert, king of Essex, 57.
Selred, king of Essex, 125. 129.
Selsey, isle and bishopric, 109.
Serwulf, bishop of Lichfield, 107.
Severn, Danes defeated in, 164, 165.
178, 179.
Sexburgh, queen of Wessex, 61. 100.
Sigebert, king of Wessex, 131, 132.
Sigebert, king of the East-Angles, 58.
92. 101.
Sigebert the Good, king of the East-
Saxons, 57. 60. 104.
Sighere, king of the East Saxons, 106.
Siric, archbishop of Canterbury, coun-
sels the Dane-geld, 178.
Siward, archbishop of Canterbury,
203.
Siward, earl of Northumbria, 204,
205.
Standard, battle of the, 267. 270.
Stephen, pope, 141.
Stephen de Blois, nephew of Henry
I., on his death, seizes the crown,
262. 324; grants a charter of
liberties, 264; the nobles rebel,
265. 267; he defeats the insur-
gents and the King of Scotland,
268, 269; taken prisoner at Lin-
coln, and confined in Bristol Castle,
275. 280; released in exchange for
Robert, earl of Gloucester, 281;
civil wars with the party of the
empress continued, 282. 288. 293.
424; treaty with Henry, duke
of Normandy, for the succession,
293-295; his death, 296.
Stephen de Mandeville, 407.
Stigand, bishop of Winchester, 202;
translated to Canterbury, 204.
Suidhelm, king of the East-Saxons,
105.
Sussex, kingdom of, founded, 45.
Sweyn, earl, 202, 203.
Sweyn, king of Denmark, invades
England, 179; fresh invasions, 185.
190; becomes king of England,
and death, 179.
Tacitus, emperor, 26.
Taillefer, a Norman jester, 211.
Tatwine, archbishop of Canterbury.
123, 124.
Tenerchebrai, battle of, 242.
Thanet, isle of, 67.
Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury,
270. 287. 289. 294.
Theobogild, archbishop of Canterbury.
61, 62. 107. 111. 116.
Theodosius, emperor, 31.
Theodosius the younger, 34.
Thomas, archbishop of York, 240.
Thurkytel, a Danish earl, 188. 191.
Thurstan, archbishop of York, 245.
267. 316.
Tiberius, emperor of Rome, 17.
Titus, emperor, 20.
Tobias, bishop of Rochester, 116. 121.
Tonsure, ecclesiastical, 120.
Tosti, earl, son of Godwin, 203. 205.
207. 209.
Tower of London surrendered
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 404.
Tracy, Henry de, 363. 399. 428.
Trajan, emperor, 21.
Trinobantum (London?) 14.
Trumhere, bishop of Repton, 104.
Trumwine, bishop of the Picts, 108.
114.
Tuda, bishop of Lindisfarne, 105,
106.
Tumbert, bishop of Hexham, 108.
Turgis of Orleans, 410.
Uffa, king of East-Anglia, 53.
Uffingas, 53.
Uhtred, earl of Northumbria, 190.
193.
Ulf, bishop of Dorchester, 203.
Ulfkytel, earl of East-Anglia, 185.
189.
Valens, emperor, 30.
Valentinian, emperor, 30.
Valerian, emperor, 25.
Verulam (St. Alban's), 27.
Vespasian, emperor, 18, 19.
Vigilius, pope, 50.
Vikings, Danish, 157.
Vitalian, pope, 107.
Vortigern, a Saxon chief, 39, 40, 41.
Walcher, bishop of Durham, 215.
Waleran, earl of Mellent, 287.
Wales (South), description and state
of, 329.
Walkelin, bishop of Winchester, 238.
Wallingford Castle, 368. 415.
Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, 301.
318.
Walter de Pincheney, 411. 428.
Waltheof, earl of Northumberland,
213, 214.
Watling Street, 8.
Wearmouth monastery, 113.
Welshmen, irregular troops, 274. 279.
409.
Wessex, kingdom of, founded, 48.
Westminster Abbey founded, 208.
Westminster Hall and Palace built,
238.
Whitherne, bishopric founded, 98.125.
Wiccii, a British tribe, 80. 141.
Wight, Isle of, 50. 109. 343.
Wilfare's dun, or Wilfar's Hill, 101.
Wilfrid, archbishop of York, 106.
119.
Wilfrid, bishop of Selsey, 108, 109.
Wilfrid, bishop of Worcester, 129.
William Curboil, archbishop of Can-
terbury, 251. 254; his character,
315. 326.
William Giffard, bishop of Winchester,
240. 256; his character, 315.
William I., duke of Normandy, 198;
pretensions to England, 208;
speech before the battle of Hast-
ings, 210; crowned, 212; in Scot-
land, 214; in Wales, 215; causes
the Doomsday book to be made,
ib.; death and character, 217.
William II. (Rufus), 222. 225. 237.
239. 243.
William, prince, son of Henry I.,
drowned, 249; his character, 306.
William, earl of Flanders, invades
Normandy, 246; gains a battle
against Theodoric, 255; dies
young; Walo the poet's eulogy of
him, 256; his character, 307.
William, earl of Gloucester, succeeds
Robert; his character, 428.
William Pont de l'Arche, 326. 399.
William de Dover, 408. 411, 412.
Wilton, battle of, 281. 397.
Winchester stormed by the Danes,
151; siege and rout of, 281. 386,
387.
Windsor Castle built, 244.
Winfrid, bishop of Lichfield, 107.
Wini, bishop of Winchester, 99.
Wippa, or Pyba, king of Mercia, 54.
Welsh, insurrections of, 215. 237. Witlaf, king of Mercia, 142.
Withred, king of Kent, 117. 120.
Epitaph on Robert Bloet, bishop of England's welcome to Henry II., 297.
Lincoln, 251.
Elegy on his friend Walter, 318, 319.
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