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,
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)
Chaunont, Chaumont (arr. Argentan), Church, the, and citizenship, 124; in
Chenay (arr. Mamers), 260
Chennebrun (Chesnebrun, arr. Evreux), 146, 155 n., 292
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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;
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
Créances (arr. Coutances), 499 Credit, growth of, 348, 353-5 Cresec (William)
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
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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