Authors: Lisa Hilton
Queens Consort (80 page)
Bremule, battle of (1119),
60
Brent, Dr,
409
Breteuil,
38
Bretigny, treaty of (1360),
314
Brictric, lord,
35
Bridget, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth,
376
,
378
,
387
,
396
,
409
,
410
Brindisi,
126
Brionne, Gilbert of,
18
Bristol,
85
,
151
,
156
,
181
,
205
,
230
,
238
,
266
326
,
373
; Castle,
83
,
311
British Museum,
212
Brittany, Alan, Count of,
18
,
39
Brittany, Conan, Duke of,
36
Brittany, Constance of,
111
,
117
,
136
Brittany, Henry of,
187
Brittany, John, Duke of,
120
,
177
,
180
,
187
Brittany, Marguerite of,
308
,
312
Brittany, Marie of,
308
Brittany, Richard of,
308
Brocart, Peronell,
316
Bromley, John,
256
Bromley, Lady Martha,
361
Brotherton,
206
Brotherton, Thomas of (son of Edward I and Marguerite),
206
,
207
Brussels,
78
Buchan, Countess of,
208
Buck, Sir George,
399
Buck, Sir John,
399
Buckenham, Norfolk,
66
Buckfast, Devon,
75
Buckingham, Henry Stafford, Duke of,
350
,
360
,
361
,
386
,
389
,
390
; meets Richard III,
386
; share of the Bohun inheritance,
393—4
; conspires against Richard III,
394—5
,
411
; death of,
395
Buckingham, Katherine, Duchess of,
353
,
360
,
361
Buckinghamshire, sheriff of,
179
Burdet, Thomas,
379
Burgh, Alice,
397—8
Burgh, Isabel,
397
Burgh, Richard de,
170
Burgh-on-Sands,
210
Burghersh, Bishop,
245
Burgundy, Charles, Duke of,
359
,
361
,
365
,
366—7
,
368
,
371—2
Burgundy, Florine of,
101
Burgundy, Guy of,
18
Burgundy, John the Fearless, Duke of,
308
,
312
,
313
,
322
,
323
,
336
Burgundy, Margaret of (Edward IV’s sister),
405
,
412
Bury, Richard de,
233
Bury St Edmunds,
154
,
341
; chronicler of,
181
Busci, Roger de,
35—6
Butler, Lady Eleanor,
389
Byland, battle of (1322),
231
Bywell Castle,
367
Cabot, Lawrence,
328
Cade, Jack, rebellion led by,
342
Cadmos, battle of (1147),
102—3
Cadwaladr,
406
Caen,
29
,
147
,
149
,
261
; Holy Trinity abbey,
29
,
35
,
37
,
39
; St Stephen’s foundation,
29
,
37
,
51
Caerphilly,
227
Calais,
274
,
294
,
297
,
315
,
325
,
342
,
349
,
350
,
359
,
363
,
365
,
366
,
369
,
384
; garrison mutiny,
347
; siege of (1347),
264—5
,
288
Cambridge,
166
,
326
; Queens’ College,
355
,
375
,
377
,
390
Camoys, Thomas, Lord,
318
Canterbury,
63
,
85
,
89
,
90—1
,
129
,
145
,
147
,
155
,
166
,
205
,
228
,
248
,
264
,
275
,
289
,
350
,
362
,
377
; St Augustine’s monastery,
58
,
87
,
171
; see of,
49
,
63
,
168
Canterbury Cathedral: Becket’s shrine,
171
; Henry IV’s tomb,
313—4
; royal window,
360
Canterbury Chronicle, The
,
150—1
Cantilupe, Matilda,
186
Canute, King,
23—24
Capetian dynasty,
107
Capgrave, John,
340
Carduc,
98
Carlisle,
62
,
82
,
88
,
257
; Castle,
229
Carmelite Missal,
280
Carpenter, Christine,
348
Castile,
121
Castilian pirates,
267—8
Catesby, William,
400
Catherine de Valois (later Queen of England),
344
; dower,
316
; ancestry,
322
; marriage to Henry V,
322
,
324
; coronation,
322
,
325
; in Paris,
324—5
; appearance,
325
,
326
; arrival in England,
325
; love of music,
326
; relationship with husband Henry,
326
; time in England,
326
; and death of Henry,
326—7
; dowry,
327
; dynastic importance,
327—9
; and James I of Scotland,
329
; affair with Edmund Beaufort,
329—30
,
331
; marries Owen ap Maredudd ap Tudor,
330—2
; children,
332
; and Owen Tudor’s relatives,
332
; character,
334
; death of,
332
,
334
; embalmed body,
321
Catherine of Aragon,
413—15
,
417
Cecily, daughter of William and Matilda,
37
,
52
Cecily, Duchess of York (daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth),
360
,
362
,
371
,
387
,
396
,
407
,
410
,
411
Celestine, Pope,
89
Cerda, Carlos de,
267
Chalfont, Gilbert de,
179
Chalus,
133
Champagne,
69
Champagne, Blanca of,
149
Champagne, Henry of,
111
Champagne, Theobald, Count of,
97
,
98
,
111
Champagne, Thibault, Count of,
69
,
72
,
73
,
134
,
135
Chandeler, John, bishop of Salisbury,
311
chantry foundations,
410
Charles, cousin of Godfrey ‘The Great’,
61
Charles IV of France and Holy Roman Emperor,
231
,
232
,
233
,
235
,
242
,
273
,
274
,
281
Charles V of France,
205
Charles VI of France,
290
,
291—2
,
293
,
294
,
313
,
314
,
316
,
323
,
327
,
334
; children,
322—3
Charles VII of France,
316
,
321—2
,
323—4
,
327—8
,
335
,
337
,
341
,
366
Charles VIII of France,
401
Charles of Anjou,
170
,
177
,
184
,
192
,
194
Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily,
335
Charles of Valois,
235
Charles ‘The Bad’, King of Navarre,
307—8
Charles the Simple,
22
Charolais, Count of,
336
charters witnessed by queens,
50—1
,
57
,
61—2
,
64
Chartres,
56
134
; cathedral,
176
; ‘school’,
54
Chartres, Countess of,
159
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
278
,
279
,
280
,
295
Chelsea manor,
76
Chertsey,
178
chess playing,
196
Chester,
169
,
176
,
214
,
256
,
300
,
348
Chester, bishop of,
209
Chester, Lucy, Countess of,
64
Chester, Matilda, Countess of,
82
Chester, Ranulf, Earl of,
82
,
85
Cheyne, Sir John,
395
Chibnall, Marjorie,
81
Chichester,
148
,
150
,
156
,
198
; leprosarium,
48
childbirth, royal,
255
Chinon castle,
114
,
132
,
134
,
147
,
148
,
316
Chiny, Ida of,
61
Christian (Matilda’s clerk),
83
Christian humanism begins to take form,
54—5
Christianity: revival in Normandy,
29
; role of Saxon women in conversion of male kin,
26
Christina, daughter of Edmund Ironside,
40
,
41
,
45
Christina, daughter of Edward Atheling,
34
Chronicle of Brittany
,
312
Chronicle of St Denis
,
309
Chronique de Touraine
,
97
Chronique Normand
,
105
Church, Anglo-Norman,
48—50
Clairvaux, Bernard of,
89
,
99
,
100
,
101
,
106
Clare, Eleanor de,
226
,
229
,
230
,
238
Clare, Margaret de,
210
,
215
,
216
Clare, Osbert of,
197
Clarence, Elizabeth of,
268
Clarence, Isabel of,
398
Clarence, Philippa of,
269
Clarence, Thomas, Duke of (son of Henry IV),
318
,
324
,
360
,
362
,
363
,
364
,
365
,
369
,
370
,
372
,
374
,
380—1
,
382
; plans to marry again,
378
; execution,
379
; claimed to be illegitimate,
389
Clemence, wife of Godfrey ‘The Great’,
61
Clement VII, Pope,
273
Clementia (King John’s mistress),
145
Cleve, William,
343
Clifford, Lord,
348
Clifford, Sir Robert de,
208—9
Clifford, Rosamund de,
111
,
112
,
115
Clisson, Olivier de,
312
Clogh, Thomas de,
266
clothing, new trends in,
278—9
Clovis,
328
Cluny,
69