Early Britain

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Athelstan (King), birth of, 229;
character, 231; supremacy, 233;
defeats the Danes at Brunan-
burgh, 234-5; foreign alliance,
237; death, 238

Athelstan (Sub-King of Kent), 188
Aylesford, battle of, 95
Augustine (Archbishop of Canter-
bury) sent to England, 121;
lands in Thanet, 122; converts
Ethelbert, 123; quarrel with
the British Churches, 123-4
Augustus (Emperor of Rome), 31,
32 note
Aurelian, 80

Aurelius, M., 76

Babred, King of Kent, 182
Badbury, 225

Badon Hill, battle of, 100
Baldwin of Flanders, 313, 315,

324, 325, 343, 363

Bangor, monks of, 123-4 note
Batavian cavalry, 35, 60

Bede (Baeda), the Venerable,

157-60; quoted, 102; his ac-
count of Caedmon, 154

Bedwin, battle of, 141

Belisarius, 88

Benedict (Anti-pope), 336

Benedict (Bishop), Abbot of Wear-
mouth and Jarrow, 157

Benson (Bensington), battle of,

Caedmon, account of, 151–7
Cæsar, Julius, 13-30; lands in
Britain, 13; his first expedition
to Britain, 13-21; second ex-
pedition, 22-30
Calgacus the Caledonian, 64
Caligula, pretended conquests of,
33
Camalodunum, 36, 40, 50, 51
Camden, the historian, quoted, 70
Cangi, 40

Canterbury, 123, 148, 282-4
Canute, named king, 287;
crowned, 290; struggle with
Edmund Ironsides, 290-4; his
reign and character, 295-310
Caracalla, 78

Caradoc (Caractacus), 35-42
Carausius, 82-5

Cartismandua, 42

Cassiterides, the, or Tin Islands, 7
Caswallon (Cassivelaunus), 27-9

Edmund, son of Edward the Elder,
239-40; death of, 241

Edmund, Sub-King of East Anglia,

193

Edred, 241-4

Edric, 289, 290, 293 seq.

Edward the Confessor, his reign,
320-54

Edward the Elder, his reign, 210-
229

Edward the Martyr, 256-8
Edwin of Deira, 132-3

Egbert, Archbishop of York, 158
Egbert, King of Wessex, flies to
Ofta of Mercia, 180; his reign,
182-4

Egferth of Mercia, 149
Egferth of Northumbria, 138-9
Eglesford, battle of, 293

Egwin, mother of Athelstan, 229
Elfleda, 148
Elfric, 264
Elfrida, 258

Elgiva, first wife of Ethelred, 272
Ella, Chief of West Saxons, 97-8;
first Bretwalda, 114
Ella (of Northumbria), 124
Ellandun, battle of, 182
Ely, 195

Emma of Normandy, 272 seq.
Englefield, battle of, 194
English institutions,

people, 167-72

&c.,

Harold, Hardrada, 356; defeated
and slain at Stamford Bridge,
359-60

Harold, son of Godwin, Earl of
East Anglia, 324; fall into
hands of William of Normandy,
340; chosen king, 354; his
reign, 355-75
Hasting, 209, 210
Hastingas, 144, 146
Hengist, 92-6

Herodotus, quoted, 7

Hexham, battle of, 135; bishopric
of, 164

Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 151-2
Hingvar, 193

Honorius, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 128

Honorius, Emperor of West, 88
Horsa, 93-6

House Carles, 302