i. 234;

receives homage, _ib._; marriage, 236; drowned, 239

William, eldest son of Henry II. and Eleanor, i. 429, 431

William of Corbeil, prior of Chiche, archbishop of Canterbury, i. 68; joins Stephen, 278; crowns him, 279; dies, 299, 300

William, archbishop of Bordeaux, ii. 140

William I. Shockhead (_Tête-d’Etoupe_), count of Poitou and duke of Aquitaine, i. 123

William II. Fierabras, duke of Aquitaine, i. 123, 139, 173

William IV. the Great, duke of Aquitaine, i. 159, 173

William V. the Fat, duke of Aquitaine, i. 173, 174

William VI. (Peter) the Bold, duke of Aquitaine, i. 176; relations with Geoffrey Martel, 210–213; death, 213

William VII. (Guy-Geoffrey), duke of Aquitaine, i. 215; war with Anjou, _ib._, 252, 253; regains Saintonge, 216

William VIII., duke of Aquitaine, offers his duchy in pledge to William Rufus, i. 3; imprisons Fulk of Anjou, 229; marriage, 455

William IX., duke of Aquitaine, bequeaths his daughter to Louis VII. of France, i. 383; claims on Toulouse, 455

William Longsword, duke of Normandy, i. 111

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; legate, _ib._; his difficulties, 292, 293; his rule, 294; quarrels with John, 298–301; struggle with Geoffrey of York, 305, 306; with John etc., 307–311; his fall, 311, 312; appeals to the Pope and excommunicates his enemies, 312; negotiates with Eleanor and John, 315; goes to England for Richard’s ransom, 325; makes truce with Philip, 367; mission to Germany, 372; death, 373, note 4{1866}

William, dean of York, i. 355; bishop of Durham, _ib._; death, 399

William Giffard, chancellor, i. 22; bishop of Winchester, 71

William I., count of Arles or Provence, i. 190, 191

William, count of Angoulême, ii. 136

William IV. count of Toulouse, i. 455

William of Aubigny, earl of Arundel, i. 298; ii. 144, 145, 149

William of Aumale, earl of York, i. 289

William of Blois, chancellor of Lincoln, ii. 456, 461

William, earl of Gloucester, ii. 144, 163, 184

William de Mandeville, earl of Essex, ii. 144; supports Henry II., 145, 260; justiciar, 279; death, 282

William the Marshal rebels against Henry II., ii. 139; relations with the young king, 228; early history, 260; encounter with Richard, 261; arranges Henry’s funeral, 269, 270; meeting with Richard, 272; marriage, 274; co-justiciar, 279; regent for John, 390, 391; earl of Striguil, 393; sent to Normandy, 400, 401; goes to relieve Les Andelys, 413; ambassador to Philip, 424; persuades John to dismiss the host, 427

William, marquis of Montferrat, ii. 60

William of Mortain, earl of Cornwall, i. 11, 13

William of Roumare, i. 314; earl of Lincoln, 315

William, earl of Salisbury, ii. 144

William Longsword, earl of Salisbury, son of Henry II., ii. 428

William, earl of Warren and count of Mortain and Boulogne (son of Stephen), i. 430, 469

William of Anjou, third son of Geoffrey and Matilda, born, i. 374; proposal to conquer Ireland for him, 431; death, ii. 29

William de Barri, ii. 453

William the Clito, son of Robert of Normandy, i. 235, 238; betrothed to Sibyl of Anjou, 240; marriage annulled, 241; excommunicated, 242; Flanders granted to, 243; marriage, _ib._; death, 266

William de Courcy, seneschal of Normandy, ii. 146, 193

William of Dover, i. 335

William of Eynesford, ii. 17

William Fitz-Alan, i. 295, 298

William Fitz-Aldhelm, seneschal to Henry II., ii. 113, 116; governor of Ireland, 183

William Fitz-Duncan, i. 287

William Fitz-John, i. 295

William Fitz-Ralf, seneschal of Normandy, ii. 194, 260

William Fitz-Osbert or Long-beard, ii. 345–347

William Fitz-Stephen, ii. 38

William of Malmesbury, i. 83–93; his account of the Angevins, 196

William of Mohun, i. 295

William “the Monk,” i. 342

William, lord of Montpellier, i. 462, 466

William of Newburgh, ii. 441–445

William Peverel, i. 295, 299, 320, 428

William of Pavia, cardinal, ii. 69

William, archbishop of Reims, ii. 218

William des Roches, ii. 394, 407, 426

William of Soissons, i. 481

William de Stuteville, ii. 160, 393

William Talvas, lord of Alençon, i. 236, 270, 281

William of Tancarville, chamberlain of Normandy, ii. 142

William de Tracy, ii. 78

William Trussebut, i. 307

William de Vesci, ii. 145, 160

William of Ypres, i. 285, 294; at battle of Lincoln, 318, 319; helps the queen in Kent, 324; at siege of Winchester, 326; captures Earl Robert, 327; tries to reconcile Stephen and Abp. Theobald, 369

Wilton, i. 33; battle at, 334

Winchester, i. 31; treaty of, 9; fair, 32; Stephen received at, 277; Matilda received at, 321; palace, 325; siege, 326; Matilda’s escape from, 327, 328; councils at, 305, 322, 402; hospital of S. Cross, 357; coronations at, ii. 81, 330; meetings of John and W. of Longchamp at, 298, 299, 300. _See_ Henry, Richard, William

Windsor, ii. 182, 314, 323, 328

Witham, river, i. 38, 40

Wolvesey-house, i. 325

Woodstock, Henry I. at, i. 44, 94; Henry II. and Thomas at, ii. 31, 32; Welsh princes at, 14, 179; council at, 14–16, 43, 44

Wool-trade, Flemish and English, i. 30, 52

Worcester, i. 35; its historical school, 81, 82; Henry II. at, 439

Würzburg, council at, ii. 56

York, i. 36; Henry I.’s charter to, _ib._; S. Mary’s abbey, 71; dispute for the primacy, 354, 355, 364–366; tumults at, 380; Henry Murdac enthroned at, 381; end of the schism, 382; Henry II. and William the Lion at, ii. 178; massacre of Jews at, 289, 290; council at, 340; commune at, 469. _See_ Geoffrey, Henry, Hubert, Hugh, John, Roger, Thurstan, William

Yorkshire, its condition under Henry I., i. 36, 38

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