Category: History - British
Somewhat more than a year after the primate’s death, Thomas the chancellor returned to England. He came, as we have seen, at the king’s bidding, ostensibly for the purpose of securing the recognition of little Henry as heir to the crown. But this was not the sole nor even the...
Somewhat more than a year after the primate’s death, Thomas the chancellor returned to England. He came, as we have seen, at the king’s bidding, ostensibly for the purpose of se...
5. CHAPTER II.With the archbishop’s flight into France the struggle between him and the king entered upon a new phase. Its intrinsic importance was almost entirely lost, and it became simply...
6. CHAPTER III.It is in the history of the settlements formed on the Irish coast by the northern pirates in the ninth century that we must seek for the origin of those relations between Englan...
7. CHAPTER IV.For the last eight years Henry had been literally, throughout his English realm, over all persons and all causes supreme. From the hour of Thomas’s flight, not a hand, not a voi...
8. CHAPTER V.In the seven years which followed the suppression of the barons’ revolt Henry’s prosperity reached its height. The rising in which all his enemies had united for his destruction...
9. CHAPTER VI.The unexpected death of the young king was a catastrophe almost equally overwhelming to both parties in the war. Henry himself, when the news was brought to him by the prior of...
10. CHAPTER VII.All doubts as to the destination of Henry’s realms after his death were settled at once by the discovery of John’s treason. Throughout the Angevin dominions not a voice was rais...
11. CHAPTER VIII.The political history of England during the four years which followed Richard’s departure over sea is simply the history of the administration of Hubert Walter. Richard never ag...
12. CHAPTER IX.“In the year 1199,” says a contemporary French writer, “God visited the realm of France; for King Richard was slain.”[1941] Richard’s death was in truth the signal for the break...
13. CHAPTER X.In the eyes of all contemporary Europe the most striking and important event in English history during the half-century which had passed away since the accession of Henry II. wa...
14. i. 121, 134, 135, 19915. i. 468Adrian 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...
16. i. 176Alexander 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...
17. ii. 202;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,...
18. i. 149;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...
19. i. 214, 249, 250Gilbert 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...
20. i. 394;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...
21. i. 126, 127Hubert 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...
22. ii. 60;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...
23. i. 242;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...
24. i. 469;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...
25. i. 104Odo 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...
26. ii. 369, 370Raymond 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...
27. i. 216;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...
28. ii. 190Saumur, 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...
29. i. 24;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;...
30. i. 273;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...
31. i. 234;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;...