488; English family of, 350 n., 489. | Blood feud, the, 96 n.
Bricqueville, Roncheville-le- Blosseville (Blossevilla, arr. Yvetot), the unique administration of (1180),
Bertrand of Born, 29, 150
Bessin (Baiocassinus), viscounties in the old pagus of the, 50; hereditary viscounty of the, 80, 110, 117, 491; viscounts of, 63, 66 n.: see Chester; bailiwick of, 110; bailiff of, 80, 110: see Hamo Pincema; barons of, at ju- dicial assize, 79 n.; itinerant justices in, ibid.; passes under control of Philip Augustus, 378
Béthune (Baldwin, Robert)
Bohon, family of, 62, 487-8; payment of aid by, 321 n.; see Carentan, Midhurst, Hereford Bohon, Saint-André-de (arr. Saint-Lô), 488; Saint-Georges-de (ibid.), 488 Bois (Geoffrey, John, Osbert)
Béthune, river, 370; becomes part of Bolonia, see Boulogne Norman frontier, 274
Béthune (Bethunia, Pas-de-Calais), avouerie of, 135; advocatus of, 238 n. Betrothal, legal nature of, 209, 210 n. Beuerel (Richard)
Beynac (Dordogne), see Ademar Bigod, earl, Norman lands of, 388 n. Bigorre, counts of, 31; mercenaries from, 338 and n.
Bilsington (Kent), 423 n., 493
Boniface of Montferrat, a pensioner of Richard, 141
Bonmoulins (Bonum Molinum, arr. Mortagne), 243, 270, 275, 276 n., 281, 293, 372; castle of, 109, 167, 275; and Moulins, 293; road from Breteuil to, 155 n.; ceded by John to the count of Perche (1194), 148; prepositura of, see Moulins
Bonnavilla, see Bonneville-sur Touque Bonneval, abbot of, 68 n.
Bishops, English, 475; Norman, and Bonneville, La (arr. Evreux), 252 n.
pleas of the sword, 83 and n. Blainville (Geoffrey)
Blanche, d. of Alphonso viii of Castile, and niece of King John of England, 212, 219 n.; proposed as wife of Louis, son of Philip Augustus (1199), 186; married, 203 and n. Blanchelande (cant. la Haie du Puits), abbot of, 248 n.
Blesensis comes, 191 n.; see Blois, Louis Blois (Blesis, Loir-et-Cher), county of,
13, 16-22; union of Champagne with, 20; France and, 20, 21; Anjou and, 21; counts of, 19, 61; see Chartres, and Louis, Stephen, Theobald
Bonneville-sur-Touque (Bonnavilla, Bona Villa, Calvados, arr. Pont l'Evêque), 159 n., 246, 282 n., 361, 372; bailiwick of, 107; viscounty of, ibid.; castle of, 75 n., 107; local connections with, 271 n.; dowry of Berengaria in, 402; John at (1203), 249. See Geoffrey Trossebot, and Trossebot
Bonport (Bonus Portus, near Pont de l'Arche) abbey, 221
Booty, rights of lord to share in, 358 Bordeaux (Burdegalim, Gironde), 10, 11, 32, 43, 131, 211, 340 n., 343, 364 n., 384; county of, acquired by Gascony, 31; city of, history and character, 32;
Bourges (Bituricae, Cher), 13, 32 n. ; old capital of Aquitaine, 28; archbishopric of, 30; viscounty of, purchased by Philip i of France, 14, 28, 131; viscount of, 131, "king of," 12. See Berri, Charles vii, Philip i Bourth (c. Verneuil), 515 n. Boutavant (Boteavant, Buteavant), 197, 202, 219 n., 478; site of disputed, 183 n.; built by Richard, 183, 287; expenditure at, 288; relation of Château-Gaillard to, 293; meeting place between le Goulet and, 218; taken by Philip (1202), 219; a place of same name in Ireland, 287 n. Bouteilles, i.e., Roux-Mesnil-Bouteilles (Botellae, Seine - Inferieure, arr. Dieppe), manor of, given to the archbishop of Rouen in part exchange for Andeli, 173, 174 n. Bouvines, battle of, 141, 164, 176 Boury (Burriz, arr. Beauvais) captured
Bowes (Yorkshire), castle of, 244 n. Brabançons, 264, 335, 337, 338 n.; riot
with the Welsh at Portsmouth, 337. See mercenaries
Brabant, 133, 135; recruiting among knights of, 328; dukes of, see Godfrey, Henry of Louvain Branchart (Hugh)
Brandin, mercenary, 222 and notes; 272 n., 341; defends Gournai (1202), 221; seneschal of La Marche, 44 n., 222 and n., 339, 340 n. ; his son, 222 n. Braosa, 283 n.; see Briouze
Bray, district of, 128, 346, 370 and n.; bailiwick of, 104; viscounty of, 117; ministerium of, 104, 105; works of Henry ii in, 277; bailiff of, 72 n.; see Alvered of Saint-Martin Breauté (Fawkes)
Brecon, lord of, 469; see William of Briouze
Bréhal (arr. Coutances), fief of Fulk Paynell (q.v.), 499
Bresle, river, 163, 498; part of Norman frontier, 273, 274 Bretêche, la, (Geoffrey) Breteuil (Britolium, arr. Evreux), honour of earls of Leicester, 274, 292, 372, 501, 506, 511; exempted from fouage, 48 n.; privileges granted by Philip to burgesses of, 402 n. ; roads from Rouen and Lisieux to, 292; road to Bonmoulins from, 155 n.; forest of, 243 n.
Bretons, the, 231 and n., 232, 244, 245,
247; understanding between Richard and (1196), 167, 177; and the death of Arthur, 455, 456; Philip Augustus and, 232, 235-6; desire revenge, 380; advance of (1204), 373, 379-381; meet Philip at Caen, 379, 381, 390; help to reduce Western Normandy, 381; the fair of Montmartin and, 266, 379. See Brittany
Bretteville (Bretevilla, arr. Falaise), 261
Brewer (William) Brézolles (Bruerolae, arr. Dreux), honour of, and Tillières, 252, 265, 270 n.; lord of, 252, 253, 265, 266 n.; John at (1203), 244 and n. Bricavilla, see Bricqueville-sur-mer Brice the chamberlain, seneschal of Anjou, 228, 229 n., 236 and n., 476; castellan of Mortain and Tenchebrai (1203), 379 n.
Bricquebec (Erchenbold)
Bricquebec (arr. Valognes), fief of, 488; see Bertram
Bricqueville-sur-mer (Hugh) Brienne (Alfonse, John)
Brigantes, the, found Bordeaux, 32 Brigstock (Northants), 294 n. Brikestok, see Brigstock
Brionne (Briona, arr. Bernay), 268 n., 373 n.; counts of, succeeded by counts of Meulan, 61, 502, 504 n.; viscounts of, 61
Brioude, county of, 29
Briouze (Reginald, William)
homage to Philip for (1202), 223, 478; anxiety concerning Arthur's fate in, 231; assembly of Vannes in, after rumour of Arthur's death, 455, 456; Norman deserters in, 231 n.; John invades (1203), 237, 244-5, 380; expedition of Henry iii to (1230), 395, 396; other references to, 317, 386 counts and dukes of, see Alain Barbetorte, Arthur, Constance, Geo- ffrey, Peter of Dreux
Brix (Bruis, Bruit, etc., arr. Valognes), farm of, 114
Broglie (arr. Bernay), 243, 292; see Chambrai
Brough (Westmoreland), 302 Bruecourt (Henry, John) Bruerolae, see Brézolles
Bruges, prepositus of, 238 n., 320 n. Brunswick (Henry, Otto)
Buckingham, earl of the county of, see Walter Giffard Buelles (Helyas)
Briouze (Braosa, arr. Argentan), fief of, Buelles, 259 n.; see Bulli
Briquebec, see Bricquebec
Briquessart (arr. Bayeux, c. Livry),
Buerilla, fief of the earl of Arundel, 486
Bulli (arr. Neufchâtel), 259 n.; Buelles
Bur, Bur-le-Roi (Bur, Bures, arr. Bayeux), palace of the duke of Normandy at, 79 n., 276 Burdegalensis archiepiscopus, see Bor-
fief of earls of Chester, 268 n., 491 Bristol, the abbey of Margam and, 466 Britannia, regio, 228 n. ; see Brittany Brittany, dioceses of, and the arch- bishop of Tours, 186 and n.; peasant rising in, 66 n. ; legislation of Henry ii and count Geoffrey for, regarding succession, 33, 68, 69 n., 101, 102, 441 n.; barons of, 69 n., 231, 404; clergy of, 69 n.; Philip acknowledges Richard's rights in, 132; Richard and, 166 and notes; Mercadier in, 343; ad. judged to John by the French court (1200), 200, 428; held of John by Arthur, 200 and n.; Arthur does Cadoc, mercenary in service of Philip
Burgh (Hubert, Thomas) Burgundy, duke of; see Odo Burnulf (Richard) Burstall (Leicestershire), 500 Burton (Northants), 516 n. Burwell (Lincolnshire), 499 Butteavant, 287 n.; see Boutavant
Augustus, 254 and n., 387; career of, 342 and n.; wages of company of, 342 n.; lord of Gaillon and bailiff of Pont Audemer, 400, 403 n. ; exactions of, 400 and n.; styled seneschal,
Caen (Cadomus, Calvados), description of, 378; ecclesiastical synod of (1042), 93; castle of, 110; keep built, 275; siege engines at, 281 n.; lazar-house near, 276; bailiwick and prepositura of, 110, 400; exchequer at, 70, 86, 349 n.; treasury at, 278, 288, 349 n.; assize at, 79 n.; Jews of, 355 n.; merchants of, 395 n.; Richard at, (1194), 149; Hugh of Lusignan im- prisoned at, 360; John holds his Christmas court at (1202), 231; John celebrates the feast of Saint Denis at (1203), 246 and n.; submits to Philip (1204), 378, 379; effect of surrender of, 384; under French kings, 400
other references to, 10, 22, 42, 159 n., 231, 233 n., 248 and n., 260, 264, 275, 276, 281 n., 288, 372, 377, 381, 382, 383, 390, 511
abbot of, see Saint-Stephen; abbess of, see La Trinité; bailiffs of, see Richard FitzHenry, Robert of Vieux- pont, Peter of Thillai; viscount of, 63
Caesaris Burgus, 294 n.; see Cherbourg Caïeux (William)
Cailly (Matilda, Osbert, Petronilla, Ralph, Roger)
Cailly (Cailleium, Quaillia, arr. Rouen), history of the fief of, 489-491
Cambernon (arr. Coutances), 259 cambiatores regis, 353 n. Cambois (Cambaium, Cambay, arr. Argentan), 243 n., 385 Cambrai, 419; bishop of, ibid.; bishop elect of, 207 n.; societas between chapter of Rouen and chapter of, 171 n.; Walter, archbishop of Rouen at, 171; Hugh of Gournai and the burgess of, 419
camera regis, 279 and n., 350; camera, ducal, 64
Campagnolles (arr. Vire), 259
Campeaux, 384; see Champeaux Campens (William) campiones regis, 350 n.; see Champions Campus Arnulfi, see Champernol Canappeville (cant. Neubourg), 371 n. Canterbury, clergy of the province of, 230; monks of, and the archbishop of Rouen, 144; archbishop of, 409 n.; see Hubert Walter, Stephen Langton, Thomas Becket
Canon law, study of, in Normandy, 91 Cantilupe (Fulk), see Chanteloup Canute, 96, 138
Capella (Robert), see Chapelle capita baroniarum, 314 Capua (Peter) Cardiff (Richard)
Carentan (Carentan, Karentonium, arr. Saint-Lô), 397 n., 488 Carevilla, see Carville Carlisle, 302
Carolingian legend, 22; tradition and forms, 176 n. Caron, le, 254
Carucage, the English, 347; of 1200, 204 and n.
Carus (Saint), 166 n. Carville (Elias)
Cambaium, Cambay, 243 n.; see Cam- Carville (Carevilla, arr. Rouen), 259 n.
Case law in Normandy, 86 and n.
Casewick (Lincolnshire), 424 n. Castellania (Castellaria), 43, 294-9; see castle, châtellenie Castellio, see Châtillon-sur-Indre Castile, kingdom of, 8; alliance of John with, 131, 230 and n., 477; king of, 215, 478; see Alfonso, Blanche Castillon (Lot-et-Garonne), 32; battle of (1453), 389 Castleguard, 296 and n.
Castles, legal position of, 267; right of entry into, 267, 270; administra- tive importance of, 271 and n.; as centres of justice, 271 n.; incidents in construction of new, 282-5; and chátellenies, 294-9; place of, in systems of fortification, 291-4; stock- taking in, 297; manorial monopolies and, 294 and n.; farming of towns and, 305 n.; in time of war, 300-1
in administration of the Angevin empire, 35 and n., 43; in Angoulême, 43; of Fulk Nerra, 26; in Anjou, xx, 38-9; distribution of English, 268 n. ;- Norman: grouping of, 292-4; ducal control of, 55-6; list of, 103-116 passim; built by Henry i, 72; on Breton frontier, 372; Philip's inven- tories and inquiries, 333 n., 402; list of, on Philip's demesne, 403;-ad- ministrative centres in Poitou, 42; payment of garrison of, in Poitou,
casus regius, 193 n.
catalogus baronum, 45 n
by Philip (1193-4), 146; wasted in war, 281 and n.; how divided between John and Philip in 1203, 371; under French rule, 400
viscount of, 63; bailiff of, 387; see Geoffrey of Blainville, William of Mortemer
Celestine iii, pope, 132; policy of, 156; and duke Leopold of Austria, 165 n.; mediates between Richard and the archbishop of Rouen, 173 Cella, Celle (Geoffrey) Cenomannense feudum, see Maine Cenomannia, regio, 228 n.; see Maine Cenomanensis, see Le Mans Census, 285 and n.; of the English forests, 79 and n. Cerences (arr. Coutances), part of honour of Mortain, 293 n.; bailiwick of, a viscounty subordinate to Mor- tain, 113, 117; prepositus of, 113 Chaioullé (Kailoei, arr. Alençon), 519 Chalon of Rochefort, 25 n. Châlus (Haute-Vienne, arr. Saint- Yrieix), Richard's death at, 70 n., 187, 343; the lord of, 187 Chambrais (present Broglie, arr. Bernay), part of the honour of Ferrières, 243 n., 292, 494; John at, 243, 244
Champagne, county of, 20-22; Philip Augustus and the barons of (1198), 181; counts of, see Theobald Champeaux (arr. Vire), 384; see Campeaux
Catalonia, practice of homage in, 121 n. Champernol (Jordan) Caudebec (arr. Yvetot), 259 n. Caux (Caletum, Kaletum), district of, or pays de, 78, 222, 274, 370; forests of, 276; rules of succession in, 48 n., 102; grand viscounty of, 104, 117; its bernage, 103, 104; bailiwick of, 103-4, 400; taxation of, 321 n., 323; occupied
Champions, 216 and n., 357-8 and notes Chanceaux (arr. Tours), 338 Chancellor, see Ralph of Wanneville, William Longchamp, Eustace; of Baldwin of Flanders, 214 n. Chancery, issue of writs by, 85 n. Channel, the English, 264, 392
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