488; English family of, 350 n., 489. | Blood feud, the, 96 n.

See

Bricqueville, Roncheville-le- Blosseville (Blossevilla, arr. Yvetot),
the unique administration of (1180),

Bertrand

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.

Billard (Peter)

Bilsington (Kent), 423 n., 493

Bingham (Notts), 500

boni homines, 37 n.

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;

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)

Brittany (continued).

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

489

Briquebec, see Bricquebec

Briquessart (arr. Bayeux, c. Livry),

Buerilla, fief of the earl of Arundel,
486

Bulli (arr. Neufchâtel), 259 n.;
Buelles

see

Bur, Bur-le-Roi (Bur, Bures, arr.
Bayeux), palace of the duke of
Normandy at, 79 n., 276
Burdegalensis archiepiscopus, see Bor-

deaux

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

C

Cambaium, Cambay, 243 n.; see Cam- Carville (Carevilla, arr. Rouen), 259 n.

51 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,

42 n.

casus regius, 193 n.

catalogus baronum, 45 n

Caux (continued).

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