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Channel Isles, 221, 237, 379; law of,
442 n.; jurés of, 329 n.; advowsons
and rents of Norman clergy in, 426;
administrative history of, 115-6;
custos or ballivus of, 115; ministeria
of, 116; John, lord of, 115, 151 n.;
Peter of Préaux and, 115, 272 n.,
328, 329 and n. See John, Peter of
Préaux, Jersey, Guernsey
Chansons de geste, 164; not naturalised
in Normandy, 439
Chanteloup (Walter), see Cantilupe
Chaources, now Sourches, family of,

362 n.; see Chaworth, Sourches
Chapelle (Hugh, Robert William)
Charborough (Dorset), 517
Charente, river, 43, 109 n.
Charenton (Ebbe)

Charenton, Charentonne, river, 243, 494
Charité, La (Nièvre, arr. Cosne), abbot
of, surety for Philip at Louviers, 170,
172

Charles Martel, 12

Charles the Great, 22, 422 and n.
Charles the Simple, 53

Charles vii, king of France, 12, 374 n.
Charost (Charrocivin, Charrotium, arr.
Bourges), 160 n., 201 n., 252
Charrocium, Charrotium, see Charost
Charroux (Vienne, arr. Civray), abbot
of, 26 n.

Charter, the Great, 352; the loss of

Normandy and, 444, 447
Charter, the " unknown," 317 n.
Charters, multiplication of copies of,
46 n.; destruction of, 409 and n.
Chartrain, the, 265, 266 n.
Chartres (Carnotum, Eure-et-Loir), 12;
counts of, 16, 19; see Blois, Theobald
Châteaudun (Castrum Duni, Eure-et-
Loir), Philip flees to, from Frétéval,

152

Château Fouet (Castrum de Foillet).
xx, 377 n.; see Roche Orival
Château Gaillard (Bellum Castrum de
Rupe), early use of the name, 303 n.;
construction of, 174 and n., 176, 282,
285, 287, 288-290, 303-5; its type,
280 n.; peculiarities of, 289 and n.,
290, 375 and n.; expenditure upon,
288, 303-5; forts subordinated to, 287,
293; garrison of, 375-7; Philip in-
vests, 242; siege of, 374-7; conse-
quences of the fall of, 373, 377, 381,
382; castellan of, 263, 365; see Roger
Laci, constable of Chester

other references to, 156, 159, 168,
202, 219 n., 264, 280, 342, 353, 354 n.,
371, 372. See also Andeli, Roche
Andeli, Rock

Château-Gontier (Castrum Gonteri,
Mayenne), erection of the castle,
26 n. 36, 268; fief of, 504; see Mont-
brai

Châteauneuf, part of Tours, 197, 228
Châteauneuf-Saint-Denis, Château-sur-

Epte (Castrum Novum Beati Dyonisii,
super Ettam, arr. Les Andelys), built
by Henry i, 275; restored by Philip
to Saint-Denis (1193), 145
Châteauneuf - sur - Sarthe (Castrum
Novum super Sartam, Maine-et-Loire,
arr. Ségré), 235 n.
Château Pignon, 207 n.

Châteauroux (Castrum Radulfi, Indre),

lordship of, in Poitevin Berri, 28, 131
Châtellenie, nature of a, 294-9; see
Castle, Castellania
Châtellerault (Castrum Eraudi, Vienne),
284-5; viscounts of, 29, 284-5, 485
Châtillon-sur-Indre (Castellio,
Châteauroux), 149, 295
Chaumont (Hugh)
Chaunont (Geoffrey)

arr.

Chaunont, Chaumont (arr. Argentan), Church, the, and citizenship, 124; in

260

Chauney, see Chenay

Chauvigni (Andrew)

Chaworth (Patrick)

Chenay (William)

Chenay (arr. Mamers), 260

Chennebrun (Chesnebrun, arr. Evreux),
146, 155 n., 292

Cher, river, 148

war, 266; the conflict between France
and Normandy, and, 172, 174-6;
attitude of King Richard to, 157

in Normandy, Norman law and,
91; the Truce of God and, 93, 95;
tallages collected from lands of, 347;
and the war, 155 and n., 156-7; Philip
and, 405-7

See also Papacy, Rome, clergy,
Innocent iii, canon law, interdict
Cigogné (arr. Tours), 338
Cinglais, district of, 78 n.
Cinque Ports, the, 393 and n.; barons

Cintray (arr. Evreux), 292
Cistercian abbots in England, John's
letters to (July, 1202), 220, 480
Cisterciensis abbas; see Cîteaux
Cîteaux, abbot of, 157 n.

Cherbourg (Caesaris Burgus, Caesari-
burgus, Manche), 262, 294 n., 372,
381; castle of, 113; farm of, 114
Chester, customs of, 94; earl of, 62;
earls of, hereditary viscounts of the of, 222
Bessin and Avranchin, and farmers
of Saint-James-de-Beuvron, 66 n., 80,
110, 115, 118; see Randle, Ranulf;
constable of, see Roger Laci
Chigehan (Elias)
Chinon (Cheno, Chino, Indre-et-Loire),
10, 11, 196, 206, 215, 227, 229 and n.,
233, 234 n., 236 n., 342; treasure at,
38 n., 195; Henry ii at (1189), 129;
John married at, 210 and n.; Hubert
de Burgh in charge of, 472 n.; siege
and fall of (1205), 236-7; 374 n., 389,
464

Chisei, see Chizé

Chivalry in the twelfth century, 189,
443-5

Chizé (Chisei, Deux-Sèvres, arr. Melle),
218 n., 310 n.; honour and prepositi
of, 42 and n.; description of, 297-8
Chokes, the honour of, 424 n.;
Choques

Choques (Gunfrid)

424 n.

see

Civil law, study in Normandy of the,
91 n.

Clare, family of, lords of Orbec, 509;
earldom of, Philip confiscates the
Norman lands of the, 403; earls of,
see Gilbert, Richard
Clementia of Fougères (1), wife of
Robert of Montfort, 92 n.
Clementia of Fougères (2), wife of
Randle, earl of Chester, 496
Clergy, the English, military obligations
of, 315, 319, 320; the Norman,
sufferings of, 169; compensated by
Richard, 169 n.; Philip Augustus
and, in and after 1204, 385, 405, 483;
English lands of, xx, 425-6 and notes
Clermont, bishop of, 29

Choques (Pas-de-Calais, arr. Béthune), Cléry (arr. les Andelys), 287; expendi-

Choresbrige, see Corbridge

Christmas feast, 265; councils at, 352
Chronicle, the medieval, 459-60, 461,
465

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Clive, see King's Cliffe

Clivilla, see Cleville

to Robert of Courtenay, 404; see also
196, 239, 241 n., 250-4, 270, 274, 292

Cluny, abbot of, surety for Philip at Condé-sur-Noireau (Condeium,

Louviers, 171, 172

Cnut the Great, see Canute

Cnut vi, king of Denmark, Philip
143; see Ingeborg

Augustus and, 138,
Cocus, see Le Queu

arr.

Vire), 276; part of honour of Mortain,
110, 293 n.; bailiwick, castle and
prepositura of, 110

Conrad of Swabia, count Palatine,
139, 141

Coggeshall (Essex), abbey of, 466; Conrad, archbishop of Mainz, 141

abbot of, see Ralph

Cognac (Coignacum, Charente), 43 n.,
44 and n.; lord of, does homage to
Henry ii, 43; heiress to, wife of
Philip, son of King Richard, 43
Coinage, in Normandy, 353; English,
debasement of, 437 and n.; new
English (1205), ibid.
Coleby (Lincolnshire), 499
Colmia, see Coumont

Colmont, river, part of Norman
frontier, 273, 274 n.

Cologne, 353; see Köln
Colombières (Philip)

Combat, see trial by combat
Comin (Richard)

Communes, military nature of, 221, 313;
Philip and the French, 182, 313
and n., 326 and n.; military duties
and origin of Norman, 312-4; exemp-
tion from service of some Norman,
314; those created by John, 313
and n., 409; Philip and Norman, 410
Compostella, way to, 466; pilgrims to,
13, 362, 363, 364 n.
Compton (Berkshire), 515
Compton-Dando (Somerset), 487;
Aunou

see

Constable, the, in Anjou, 37; in
Normandy, 312, 368; see William du
Hommet

Constance of Beaumont, wife of Roger
of Tosny, 199 n.

Constance of Brittany, wife of Geoffrey
Plantagenet, and mother of Arthur,
69 n., 205 n., 212; imprisoned by her
second husband, Randle of Chester,
166 n., 380; resistance to Richard of,
166-7; action of, after Richard's death,
196; marries Guy of Thouars, 206;
death of, 215. See Arthur, Guy of
Thouars

Constanciensis episcopatus, 396 n.; see
Coutances

Pont-

Constantinople, 8, 158; see Baldwin ix,
count of Flanders
Constantinus, see Cotentin
consuetudines, ducal, 79 n., 83
Conteville (Contevilla, arr.
Audemer), viscounts of, 63; viscounty
of, 108; manor of, granted to
Jumièges in exchange for Pont de
l'Arche, 108, 287 n.; granted to
Gerard of Fournival, 108, 328, 362 n.
Coquainvilliers (Kaukeville, Kauquein-
villare, Calvados, arr. Pont l'Evêque),
fief of Hugh of Montfort, 504;
knight service of, 324 n.; payment of
aid by knights of, 321 n.; rents in,
granted by Philip to Guy of Auteuil,

Conan, son of Guiomarc'h of Leon,
captured at Mirebeau, 362, 363
Conches (Conchae, arr. Evreux), castle
of Roger of Tosny, 199 n.; taken by
Philip (1203), 239; granted by Philip Corbeil (Seine-et-Oise), 469

505

Corbridge (Choresbrige, Northumber- Courcelles-lès-Gisors

land), excavations at (1201), 188 n.
Corby (Northants), 294 n.

Corfe (Dorset), 360, 380
Corfton (Somerset), 512
Corilisus pagus, 493 n.

Corn, prices of, in Normandy, 308 and
n., 331; prohibition of the export of,

354

Corni (Hugh)

Cornwall, 503; earl of, see Reginald
Coroners, in Normandy, 88 and notes;
see pleas

Corteilles, see Courteilles
Costentinum, see Côtentin

Côtentin, the, 246, 263, 266, 275, 276,
279 n.; the grand custumal and, 48 n. ;
payments in kind in, 66; barons of,
at a judicial assize, 79 n.; itinerant
justices in, ibid.; the ducal demesne
in, 372; royal dwellings in, 276; the
viscount of, 63, 113; the later bailiff
of, 113, 254 n.; extent of bailiwick of,
113-4, 400 and n.; viscounties in, 50,
114, 117; tallage in, 331; soldiers
from, 332 n.; Philip's forces in (1204),
381; under French rule, 400

See Osbert of La Houze

Beauvais), 181-2

(Corcellae, arr.

Courci (Robert, William)

Courci (arr. Falaise), honours of, in
England and Normandy, 493-4
Court, of the French king, 200, 219,
428, 473; Flanders and, 123; disputes
between Toulouse and Aquitaine re-
ferred to, 130; adjudges Brittany and
Anjou to John, 428; proposal for
dealing with future disputes between
Arthur of Brittany and the king of
Castile in, 478; condemns John (1202),
219, 405 and n., 432, 453, 460, 473-4
notes; discussion of alleged second
condemnation of John by, 453 seqq;
unprecedented consequences of the
condemnation of John by, 416

of duke of Normandy in early
times, 82 and n.; of John, 477; the
itinerant justices and the private,

116
Courteilles (Corteilles, arr. Evreux) and
Verneuil, 292 and n.
Courtenay (Richard, Robert)
Courtenay, house of, 10 n., 504
Courville (arr. Chartres), held by lords
of Vieuxpont-en-Auge, 519
Coutances (Andrew)

Cottars, class of, 58 and n.; in Nor- Coutances (Constantiae, Manche), 259;

mandy, ibid.

Cottereaux, the, 29, 335, 337; see
mercenaries

Couesnon, river, 379, part of the

Norman frontier, 273

Coumont, see Neufchâteau-sur-Colmont
Council, Great, in Normandy, 59, 352;
meeting of, at London (March, 1204),
382 and n.

Counts, the Frankish, 26; the Norman,
61, 82

diocese of, and Henry iii (1229), 396 n.;
archdeaconries of, 50 and n.; canons
of, John seizes English lands of,
425 n.; keep built, 275; landholders
of, 114; bailiwick of, 114, 365;
viscounty of, 63, 114, 118; bishop of,
114, 405 n.; viscount of, see William
of Saint-Jean

Coventry, bishop of, see Hugh of
Nonant
Craon (Maurice)

County, survival of Frankish, as centre Crapont Doit, ministerium of, in

of justice, 79 and n.

Jersey, 116

Crassus (William)

Créances (arr. Coutances), 499
Credit, growth of, 348, 353-5
Cresec (William)

Cressy (Hugh)

Creully (Philip, Ralph, Richard)
Creully (Crolleium, arr. Caen), history
of the honour of, 493-4; see Richard
son of the earl of Gloucester, Philip
of Creully, Geoffrey des Roches,
Gilbert of Tillières, Torigni
Creuse, river, 285; boundary between

Poitou and Touraine, 284
Crispin, family of, lords of Tillières,
107, 275 n.; hereditary viscounts of
Neaufle, 105

Crohon, see Craon
Crokelay (Roger)

Crossbow, early introduction of the,

333 and n.; various kinds of, 334
Crossbowmen, 333-5; see arbalisters
Crusade, the third, 22 and n., 440 n.;
Innocent iii and the fourth, 180;
influence upon the Norman wars in
John's reign, 363-4. See Holy Land
Crusaders, debts of, 33, 345
Crux Caroli Regis, 207 n.

Cultura, the, between Andeli and the
Seine, 286

curia regis, 473; compared with the
Norman Exchequer, 85; see Court
Custom, survival of, in various parts of
the Angevin empire, 24-5
Custumal, thirteenth century Norman,
provincial tone of, 441 n. See Index of
references s.v. statuta et consuetu-
dines

Cyprus, Richard in, 136; the princess
of, d. of Isaac, emperor of, 157 n.,
165

Damietta, 500

D

Damville (Danvilla, arr. Evreux), 203,
251, 252; and Verneuil, 292
Danes, the, and Normandy, 49
Dangu (arr. Les Andelys), 288; repairs
at (1180), 280; Richard assumes
control of, 179; captured by Philip
(1197), ibid.; Philip and Richard at
(September, 1198), 181 and n., 182
Danvilla, see Damville

Dating, French method of, 146 n.
David, earl of Huntingdon, in Nor-
mandy (1194), 154

Dax (Landes), viscounts of, 31
défaute de droit, 39 and n.
Demesne, Norman, early system of
farming of, 64; management of, after
1204, 400 seqq
Dene, 411 n.

Denise, d. of Ralph of Déols, 131 n.
Denmark, 138, 439 n.; Philip Augustus
and, 137-9. See Cnut vi, Ingeborg
Deodatus, a Jew of Verneuil, 355 notes
Déols (Doli, arr. Châteauroux), lord-
ship of, part of Poitevin Berri, 28;
viscounty of, 131; see Ralph, Denise
Deppa, river, 274 n.; see Dieppe, river
Derby, earldom of, 494; see Ferrières,
English family of

Deserters, Norman, in 1193-4, 154 and
n.; during 1203, 258-263
Diepe, see Dieppe
Dieppe (Seine-Inferieure), accounts of,
75n.; prepositura of, 104; prepositi
of, 281 n.; burgesses of, 237; burned
by the French (Nov., 1195), 159;
Greek fire used at, 159, 290 n.; re-
mission of farm of, on account of
waste in war, 281 n., 356 n.; given
to the archbishop of Rouen in ex-
change for Andeli (1197), 173; value
of, in 1197, 174 n.; resistance to
Philip of, 387, 388; conflicting
authorities in, 387; disputes caused

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