Fulda, monastery of, 210; disease at, 318.
Fulk, earl of Anjou, account of, 265.
Gelasius II, pope, expelled Rome, 464.
Geoffrey, Martel, account of, 267.
Gerbert, pope Sylvester II, 172—181.
German, St. 24; his miracles, 116.
Gildas, the historian, 22, 67.
Girth, or Gurth, son of Godwin, 222, 275.
Glastonbury, antiquities of, by William of Malmesbury, 51; account of, 21; its privileges, 142, 150; Canute's presents to, 203; contention at, 303.
Gosfrith, bishop of Coutances, 328, 329.
Gloucester, Robert earl of, prefatory epistle to, 1. Conclusion of Regal History addressed to, 477; his character, 478; Modern History addressed to, 480; conduct with respect to Stephen, 492; with respect to his sister, 497; arrives in England, 505—531; his death 1, note.
Godfrey, duke of Lorraine, account of, 365.
Godfrey of Boulogne, account of, 392; joins the crusade, 394; chosen king of Jerusalem, 390, 394; dies, 395.
Godfrey, prior of Winton, account of, 475.
Godwin, earl, defeats the Swedes, 198; supports Emma, 206; murders Alfred the
son of Ethelred, 207; his character and death, 221; his family, 223.
Golgotha, church of, 395, note.
Gothrun, a Danish king, baptized, 115.
Gregory I, pope, 42; dialogues of, 119, 232; his pastoral translated by Alfred, 120.
Gregory VI, pope, otherwise Gratian, 223—230.
Gregory VII, pope, otherwise Hildebrand, 298.
Gregory VIII, pope, otherwise Maurice Bourdin, 464.
Griffin, king of the Welsh, 214, 256.
Grimbald, abbat of Winton, 118, 120.
Guimund, bp. of Avers, his eloquence, 312.
Guiscard, or Wiscard, Robert, 294, 413.
Gunhilda, married to Hen. III, 207; accused of adultery, 238.
Gunhildis, sister of Swayne, murdered, 185.
Handboc, Alfred's, 120, and note.
Hardecanute, 205; dies at Lambeth, 206.
Harold, sends presents to Athelstan, 134.
Harold, son of Canute, 205; dies, 206.
Harold, son of Godwin, 214; banished, 220, 254; seizes the crown of England, 55, 275; his death, 277—280.
Harold Harfager, king of Norway, 256, 257.
Harding, founder of Cistertians, 347.
Hastings the Dane, his ravages, 115.
Hastings, battle of, 276—280.
Head, magical, formed by Gerbert, 181.
Hegesippus, a Greek author, 378.
Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, 5.
Helias de la Fleche, 341.
Hengist, king of Kent, his origin, 8; arrives in Britain, 9; his son and brother arrive at Orkney, 10; settle in Northumbria, ib. his massacre of the British nobles, 11; death, ib.
Henry I, king of England, 425; elected king, 427; marries Matilda of Scotland, 428; gets possession of Normandy, 431; his wholesome laws, 434; his transactions
with the Scots, ib.; subdues the Welsh, 435; quarrel with earl of Flanders, 436; interview with pope Calixtus, 440; passion for exotic animals, 443; recapitulation of his character, 445; his person and habits, 446; espouses Adala of Louvain, 454; transactions till his death, 483-490.
Henry III, emperor of Germany, 208—212.
Henry IV, emperor, excommunicated, 358.
Henry V, his contest with the pope, 457.
Hereford, Roger earl of, rebels, 288.
Herbert, bishop of Norwich, account of, 353.
Hildebrand, pope Gregory VII, 295; his conduct to the emperor Henry V, 298.
Hildebert of Mans, verses on Berengar, 312, 367.
Hingwar, the Dane, ravages Northumbria, 240.
Horsa, brother of Hengist, his death, 10.
Horse, what, 350, note.
Hospital, erected at Jerusalem, 385.
Hubba the Dane, brother of Hingwar, 240.
Hugh the Great, brother of Philip, joins the Crusade, 365. His death, 408.
Hugo, abbat of Clugny, his account of Hildebrand, 296. Announces the death of Rufus, 344.
Hugo, abp. of Rouen, his letter, 489.
Hunting, right of, restricted by Will. II, 339.
Hyde monastery, Winton, 122; burnt, 523.
Hyrcanus, digs gold from David's sepulchre, 177.
Ida, king of Northumbria, 41.
Ina, king of Wessex, 31. Abdicates and dies at Rome, 37. His grant to Glastonbury, 32.
Indract, St. account of, 26.
Investiture of churches, 298, 447. Pope Paschal's epistle on, 448. Contests about, 458.
Ipres, William de, his perfidy, 495. Burns the abbey of Warewell, 523.
Ireland, converted, 24. Its dependence on England, 443.
Jerusalem, expedition to, or Crusade, 355. Approach to by Crusaders, 383. Description of, 384. Patriarchs of, 385. Siege of, 387. Capture of, 389.
Jews, their insolence, 338.
Jewish youth, anecdote of, 338, note.
John XIII, pope, his epistle to Alfric, 151. Confirms the grants to Glastonbury, 153.
John XV, pope, makes peace between Ethelred and Richard duke of Normandy, 171.
John Fitz-Gilbert, 512.
