Valoines, barony of, 505 see Valognes
Valois, county of, 134

Vannes (Morbihan), assembly at, 456
Varenne (Warenna, arr. Dieppe), 506
Varenne, river, 282, 370

Varreville (Warrevilla, Saint-Martin-
de-Varreville, arr. Valognes), farm
of, 114, 118
Vascoeuil (Gilbert)

Vascoeuil (Vascuil, Wascolium, arr. les
Andelys), customs of, 96 n.
Vascones, 30

Vascuil, see Vascoeuil

Vassy (Juliana, Matilda, Philip)
Vassy (Vaaceium, arr. Vire), honour
of, 518-9

Vau de Vire, the 380; ducal demesne

in, 372; hereditary viscounty of, 112,
117, 491; viscount of, 63: see Chester;
bailiwick of, 110, 112, 365; see Vire
Vaudreuil (Vallis Rodolii, arr. Lou-
viers), built by Henry i, 276; extent
of châtellenie of, 161 and n.,
293;
bailiwick and prepositura of, 107;
treasury at, 349; command of, in
1180, 278, 281, 291; occupied by
Philip (1194), 146-7, 161; besieged by
John, 155; Philip tries to destroy,
158, 160; re-occupied and restored by
Richard, 158-9 and n., 161, 167, 281-2;
strategic importance of, 281; surrender
of (1203), 239, 421; effect of loss of,
239, 240, 243; other references to,
202, 219 n., 264, 276, 278, 282, 288,
291-3, 333 n., 365, 371, 375
Velay, county of, 29
Vendôme (Vindocinum, Loir-et-Cher),

15, 153; county of, added to Anjou,
20, 21; destroyed by Richard (1188),
153 n.; allotted by John and Philip
to Louis of Blois, 149; abbey of La
Trinité at, 21

Venneval, see Esneval

Verdun (Ralph)

Vere (Henry)

Vermandois, county of, and Flanders,
134

Evreux),

Verneuil (Deodatus, Peter)
Verneuil (Vernolium, arr.
built by Henry i, 275; communica-
tions with, 155 n., 243 n., 292; de-
scription of, 151, 292; commune of,
151 n.; bailiwick of, 72 and n., 107,
400; prepositura of, 107, 119; soldiers
at, 331 n.; Jews of, 355 n.; court of
Henry ii at (1177), 33; promised to
Philip by John, 146; besieged by
Philip (1194), 147 n., 148, 151-2, 506;
Richard at, 151-2; repaired by
Richard, 167, 282 and n.; John at
(1203), 242, 244 n., 246; resists Philip
(1204), 372, 377-8; allies itself with
Rouen, 384; surrenders, 387; under
French rule, 400

other references to, 50, 156, 159,
230 n., 237, 238 n., 276 n.

castellans of, see Thomas Bardolf,
William of Mortemer; bailiff of,
254 n., 292; see Nicholas Bocel;
mayor of, 387

Vernolium, see Verneuil
Vernon (Richard, William)
Vernon (arr. Evreux), 184, 185, 186 n.,
204, 275, 390-1; keep of, 275;
châtellenie of, 489; customs of, 266
and n., 297 n.; forest of, 202; mayor
of, 266 n.; honour of, 490 n.; family
of, 62, 482, 507: see Néhou; English
families of, 507-8

annexed by Philip, 161, 430, 507;
Richard of Vernon exchanges for
other lands, 161 n., 162 n., 263;
under Philip's rule, 401, 402 n.;
headquarters of Philip, 161 n.;
Philip's flight to (1198), 181

Verzy (arr. Reims), 420 n.
Vessey (Vallis Seie, arr. Avranches),

512

Vetus Pons, see Vieuxpont
Vexin (Vulcassinum), county of, 16,
128 n. ; archdeaconry of, 128 n.; count

of see Dreux

Vexin, the French, 266, 273, 497;
history of, 128 n.; how held by the
French king, 122 n.; lands of arch-
bishop of Rouen in, 171 and n.;
interdict upon, 171; Richard invades
(1198), 181-3

Vexin, the Norman, 198, 202, 242 n.,
273, 338 n., 346, 370 and n., 389, 497;
history of, 128 n.; bailiwick of, 105,
128 n.; viscounty of, 105, 117; works
of Henry ii in, 277-281; command of
the earl of Arundel in (1184), 105,
278, 281; dowry of Margaret of
France, 127; in the treaty of
Messina, 127-9; intentions of Philip
Augustus upon, 132-3; ceded by John
(1193-4), 143, 146; occupied by
Phillip, 145, 161, 281; in the treaties
of Louviers and Le Goulet, 161,
429 n., 430 n.; Château-Gaillard and,
287; Richard seeks entire recovery of
(1198), 180-3, 296; extent of Philip's
control in (1199), 186 n.; French ad-
ministration of, 401, 402 n.; viscount

of, 63 and n.

See also Neaufle, Martin de Hosa,
William earl of Arundel
vicaria, vicarius, 27 and n., 34, 41, 61
Vice-chancellor, see Eustace
vicecomes, later use of term in Nor-
mandy in English sense, 74; see
sheriff, viscount

vicecomitatus, change in meaning of the
term, 63; aquae, 106 n.; see Rouen
Vienne, river, 284

Vierzon (Virsio, Virsionium, arr.
Bourges), Richard's attack upon
(1196), 166-7 and notes
Vieuxpont (Fulk, Ivo, Robert, William)
Vieuxpont, families of, 482, 519-20
Vieuxpont-en-Auge (Vetus pons, arr.
Lisieux), history of barony of, (1172-
1220), 519-520

Vieuxpont (arr. Argentan), 519
Vilers (Richard),
Villae, 33

see Villers-Canivet

Villequier (Richard)
Villers-Canivet (arr. Falaise), 263
Ville-Tierri (Renaud)
Vindocinum, see Vendôme
Vira, baillia de Castro de, see Vau de
Vire

Vire (Alban)

Vire (Vira, Calvados), 249 n., 259,
276 n., 372; the keep built, 275;
castle and prepositura of, 74 n., 112,
517; loss of, 381; bailiwick of castle
of, see Vau de Vire
virgultum, 280
Viscount, the count and the, 28; early
importance of in Normandy, 63 notes,
64; early judicial functions of, 57,
81-2; sometimes hereditary, 66 and n.
See viscounty

Viscounty, the Frankish, 62-3
Viscounty, the, in Normandy, 61-7, 71-5

passim, 103-18; judicial character of,
80, 84; pleas of, 118; under Philip
Augustus, 402

visus armorum, 310 and n.
Vitalis (Odo, son of)
Vitré (Andrew, Eleanor)
Vouent, see Vouvant
Vouvant (Vendée, arr.

Fontenay-le-

Comte), castle of, 333 and n.
Vulcassinum, see Vexin

Vulgrin iii, count of Angoulême, 209 n.

W

Wabreium, see Gavrai

Wace, Master, 439, 440

Waddon (Dorset), 426 n.

Wager of battle, see Trial, duel

Wake (Baldwin)

Walchelin of Ferrières, lord of Fer-

rières-Saint-Hilaire, 494
Waleis (Robert)

Waleran, son of Robert of Meulan, 503
Wales, 433; private war on borders of,
96; Lords Marchers of, 466-470. See
Welsh

Wallingford (Berks), 245 n.
Wallis, see Laval

Wallis Rodolii, see Vaudreuil
Walo de Fruges, 214 n.

Walter of Coutances, archbishop of
Rouen, 189 n., 335, 384, 407; during
Richard's captivity, 143-4; in Ger-
many, 169; heads a peace party, 155,
169; treatment of, at Louviers, 160 n.,
170-1; first dispute between Richard
and, 171-2; Philip and, 170-2; second
dispute between Richard and, 173;
appeals to Rome of, 173, 180; cedes
Andeli, 173-4, 305 n., 402 n.; Dieppe
and, 387-9; patronage and, 406. See
Andeli, Dieppe, interdict
Walter of Dunstanvill, 318 n.
Walter de Escudamore, 336 n.

Walter, earl Giffard, 103, 502; see
Buckingham, Giffard

Wardship, Norman law of, 47 n., 56-7,
92 n.; sale of, 92 n.

Warenne, earls, Norman lands of, 506.
See William

Warin Fitzgerold, 249 n.

Wark (Northumberland), 300

Warwick, earl of, 469; see William of
Beauchamp
Wascelin (Roger)
Wasconia, see Gascony
Waureium, see Gavrai
Weapons, 308

Wells, archdeacon of, see Hugh
Welsh, ecclesiastical claims of the, 438;
mercenaries, 264, 335-6, 357, 359, 382
Wellingborough (Northants), 500
Wendover (Bucks), 498
Wessex, law of, 24
Westcote (Surrey), 515
Westminster, 42, 302, 477 n.; Isabella
crowned at, 210; exchequer at, 349 n.
West Rasen (Lincolnshire), 507
West Tanfield (Yorks), 496
Wian, Robert, son of, 469 n.
Wicklow, 433

Widows, free of tallage, 297-8
Wigmore (Herefordshire), see Roger of
Mortemer

Wildmundcot, 236 n. See Wilnecote
Wight, Isle of, earl of the, see William
of Vernon

Wilek, Wilekier, see Villequier

480

m

William of Aubigni ii, earl of Arundel,
154; military command in 1184 of,
105, 278, 281, 291
William of Aubigni

iii, earl of
Arundel, 423 n., 486, 493
William des Barres, 381

William of Beauchamp, earl of War-
wick, 469

William of Bennenges, 111

mion (3), 496

William the Marshal, earl of Pembroke,
landholder in Wales and Ireland, 433,
467-8; inherits Clare and Giffard
lands in Normandy, 446 n., 502, 510;
training and early life of, 443, 445
and n., 446; Philip's opinion of, 431;
sense of feudal duty of, 431-2; say-
ings of, 225, 295-6, 358; his views on
traitors, 419; a creditor of the count
of Perche, 363 n.

accused of treachery (1193), 144;
at Fréteval, 153; negotiates with the
counts of Flanders and Boulogne,
177-8; his views on the succession
after Richard's death, 194-5; accom-
panies John to England (1203), 249 n. ;
embassies of, 382, 391 and n., 468 n.;
arrangement between Philip and,
371 n., 383, 386, 418-9, 431-4; accepts
Philip as liege-lord, 317, 391 and n.,
432 n.; suspected in England, 391;
opposed to expedition of 1205, 392;
refuses to follow John to Poitou, 317
other references to, 145 n., 164,
225 and n., 241 n., 249, 257 n., 317,
358 n., 368-9, 378, 409 and n., 446,
468 and n.

sons of, 368, 432 n.; family of,
431, 432 notes; bailiffs of, 224 n.;
father of, see John ii the Marshal
William Martel, lord of Baqueville,
224 n., 486, 487

William de Martywas, 424 n.
William of Maupalet, 72 n., 105
William of Mello, 178 n.
William of Merlai, 261
William of Merle, 445 n.

William the Miller, of Rouen, 351 n.
William of Mondreville, 415

William of Montbrai or Mowbray, 504

506; defends Verneuil (1194), 151,
506; and Arques (1203), 506; bailiff
of Caux, 224 n., 262, 506
William of Moyon, 507
William Longsword, duke of Normandy,
53 and n.

William of Orange, heroic legend of,
439

William of Orval, 502

William Painchon, crossbowman, wages
of, 333 n.

William Paynell (11th century), 101
William Paynell, son of Fulk Paynell
(1), first husband of Eleanor of Vitré,
516

William Paynell, son of Fulk Paynell
(2), husband of Petronilla Tesson, 513
William Paynell, son of Hugh Paynell
(1), lord of West Rasen, 507
William of Pirou, 517-8
William Poignard, 233 n., 262
William ii, count of Poitou, 19
William de Ponte, 114
William iii, count of Ponthieu, 123 n.,
214 n., 507; marries Alice, sister of
Philip Augustus, 159, 165, 177; his
brother, see Thomas of Saint-Valéry
William of Port, son of Adam of Port,
see William of Saint-Jean (2)
William of Préaux, 499; financial rela-

tions between John and, 89 n., 344 n.
William Le Queu (Cocus), 44 n., 476-7;
bailiff of the Norman Vexin, 183, 296
and n., 338 n.

William, archbishop of Reims, 185
William des Roches, seneschal of
Anjou, 36 n., 196, 198, 208, 258
and n., 385 n., 399 n.; deserts Philip
for John, 199; Arthur and, 205; at
Mirebeau, 223-4; deserts John, 226-7,
455; not a traitor, 418; in Anjou and
Maine (1203), 235 n., 236