England under the Angevin Kings, Volume I

THE BEGINNINGS OF ANJOU, 843–987 97 Note A.--The Sources of Angevin History 126 Note B.--The Palace of the Counts at Angers 132 Note C.--The Marriages of Geoffrey Greygown 134 N...

ANJOU AND BLOIS, 987–1044 143 Note A.--The Siege of Melun 189 Note B.--The Parents of Queen Constance 190 Note C.--The Pilgrimages of Fulk Nerra 192 Note D.--Geoffrey Martel and...

ANJOU AND NORMANDY, 1044–1128 200 Note A.--The Houses of Anjou and Gâtinais 249 Note B.--The Heir of Geoffrey Martel 251 Note C.--The War of Saintonge 252 Note D.--The Descendan...

“When the green tree, cut asunder in the midst and severed by the space of three furlongs, shall be grafted in again and shall bring forth flowers and fruit,--then at last may E...

The cradle-land of our Angevin kings, the original county of Anjou, was a small territory in central Gaul, lying about the lower course of the river Loire and that of its afflue...

One of the wildest of the legends which have gathered round the Angevin house tells how a count of Anjou had wedded a lady of unknown origin and more than earthly beauty, who ex...

[390] “Sanctonas cum toto pago.” Chron. Tur. Magn., Salmon, _Chron. de Touraine_, p. 122. (The date, “anno Henrici Imperatoris iv et Henrici regis xiii,” is of course absurd, li...

The history of Anjou during the sixty years comprised in our last chapter groups itself around the figure of Fulk the Black. The period on which we are now to enter has no such...

All the mental and bodily gifts wherewith nature had endowed the most favoured members of the Angevin house seemed to have been showered upon the eldest son of Fulk V. and Aremb...

On the last day of September 1139 Matilda sailed in company with her brother Robert and a hundred and forty knights;[831] they landed at Arundel, and were received into the cast...

The departure of the Empress was followed by a time of comparative quiet; but it was the quiet of exhaustion, not of rest. In the twelve years which had passed away since King H...

No loving hands have done for the early life of Henry Fitz-Empress what they did for that of his contemporary, his friend, his opponent Thomas of London; we have no stories of h...

The Christmas-tide of the year 1154 was an epoch in English history almost as marked as that of 1066. The crowning of Henry Fitz-Empress was, scarcely less than that of William...

Formidable as was the task of England’s internal reorganization, it was but a small part of the work which lay before Henry Fitz-Empress. His accession brought the English Crown...

All Henry’s endeavours for the material and political revival of his kingdom had been regulated thus far by one simple, definite principle:--the restoration of the state of thin...

Adrian IV., Pope, i. 476; his relations with the English Church and the _Curia Theobaldi_, 477; friendship with John of Salisbury, 485; bull for conquest of Ireland, 431; ii. 95...

Alexander III., Pope, i. 498; acknowledged in France and England, 502; grants the pall to Thomas, ii. 6; meets Henry and Louis at Chouzy, 13; holds a council at Tours, 14; relat...

extent and history, i. 454; granted to Richard, ii. 62; rebels in (1173), 136; country and people, 201, 203–205; its importance for England, 201; relations with Henry II., 203,...

Bertrand de Born, ii. 204, 205; stirs up revolt in Aquitaine, 209, 220, 366; his _sirvente_ for Toulouse, 211, 212; sets the young king against Richard, 222; submits, 231; enter...

Gilbert Foliot, abbot of Gloucester, i. 369, 370, 493; bishop of Hereford, 371, 495; his earlier history, 492, 493; career as abbot, 494, 495; relations with Abp. Theobald and w...

Henry, son of David king of Scots, made earl of Carlisle and Huntingdon, i. 282; Northumberland promised to, 286; at battle of the Standard, 290, 291; earl of Northumberland, 30...

Hubert Walter, dean of York, ii. 278; bishop of Salisbury, _ib._, 333; elected to Canterbury, 326; justiciar, _ib._; suppresses revolt, 327; early life, 332, 333; rivals, 334–33...

Jews in England, i. 27, 46, 53; under Henry II., ii. 486; burial-grounds granted to, _ib._; massacres of, 289, 290; relations with the Christians, 487, 488; ordinance for their...

acknowledged as Henry’s heiress, 243, 268, 269, 274; marries Geoffrey, 243, 244, 258–260; leaves him, 266; goes to England, 268; returns, _ib._; quarrels with Henry, 270; qualif...

Mirebeau, castle built by Fulk Nerra, i. 139, 151; siege of, by Geoffrey Plantagenet, 267; bequeathed to Geoffrey Plantagenet II., 394, 444; Eleanor besieged in, ii. 406; Arthur...

Odo II., count of Blois etc., seizes Melun, i. 149, 189; character, 150; defeated at Pontlevoy, 157, 158; count of Champagne, 160; besieges Montboyau, 161; Saumur, 163; attacks...

Raymond V., count of Toulouse, his marriage, i. 458; war with Henry II., 464–467; meets Henry at Grandmont, ii. 58; does him homage, 133; struggle with Aragon, 211; quarrel with...

homage to Geoffrey the Bearded, 217; to Fulk Rechin, 223; seeks Fulk’s help in Maine, _ib._; sells the Cotentin to Henry, 4; wars with his brothers, 5, 6; pledges Normandy to Ru...

Saumur, i. 161; taken by Fulk Nerra, 162; blockaded by William of Poitou, 213; betrayed to Fulk Rechin, 220; burnt, _ib._; Henry II. at, ii. 256; taken by Philip, 410; abbey of...

Taxation, i. 25, 26, 27; of towns, 29; “Sheriff’s Aid,” ii. 15; aid _pour fille marier_, 125, 126; Saladin tithe, 249; tax on moveables, 325; taxes in 1194, 328, 329, 337, 342;...

character, 275, 276; alliance with Henry I., 231; wars with Louis VI., _ib._, 235; invited to Normandy, 282, 337; treaties with Geoffrey, _ib._; with Stephen, 286; opposes Louis...

William of Longchamp, bishop of Ely and chancellor, ii. 277, 279; character and antecedents, 285–287; justiciar, 288; proceedings at York, 290; quarrel with Hugh of Durham, 291;...