Eadmund Ironside, 104, 177; poisoned, 178
Eadward the Confessor, 184; pious character of, 186; weakness of, 188, 240; likeness to Æthelred, 189; preference for Normans, 191; promises the crown to William, 242; also to Harold, 257; illness and death, 269; love of hunting, 329
Emma of Normandy (or Ælfgifu), 102; marriage to Æthelred, 105; flight to Normandy of, 106; sons of, 118; marries Cnut of England, 180
England, Danes in, 103; low condition of, 106; under misrule of Æthelred, 173; election of kings in, 179; same king as Denmark and Scandinavia, 181; under Cnut, 181; behind Norman civilization, 185; division into earldoms, 187; building of castles in, 193; conquest of, planned in Normandy, 240; Harold made king, 272; conquest of, by William, 308; English character, 365
Espriota, 66; second marriage, 80, 96, 152
Falaise, 92; industries of, 97; Robert in, 121; the Conqueror in, 197
Flanders, civilization of, 232; aids William, 285
Freeman's (E. A.) History of the Norman Conquest, 190, 205, 224, 225, 280, 286, 355, 359
Germany, 54; sympathy for Louis Outremer, 83, 361
Godwine, Earl of Wessex, 184; character and gifts, 188; a king-maker, 188; influence in England and banishment, 192; returns, 244; remembrance of, in England, 315
Gregory VII., (or Hildebrand), 279, 285, 298
Grimbald of Plessis, 202; imprisonment of, 212
Guy of Burgundy, 199; pretends to the ducal crown, 200; beaten at Val-ès-dunes, 210
Haarfager, Harold, 15; kingdom and marriage, 30; tyrannies of, 32
Harold, son of Godwine, 192; in Ireland, 242; in Normandy, 253; desires to succeed Eadward, 256; shipwrecked in Ponthieu, 260; received by William of Normandy, and visits him, 264; at Mt. St. Michel, 265; promises to marry one of William's daughters, 267; oath on the relics, 267; again in Normandy, 267; made king of England, 272; battle of Hastings, 300
Harthacnut, 170; becomes king, 183; dies, 184
Hasting the pirate, 38; Italian robberies, 130-144
Hauteville, Serlon of, 136; bravery of, 138, 141
Hauteville, William of, president of Apulia, 139
Henry Beauclerc, 327; his father's legacy, 339, 348; seizes the English crown, 354; death of his son, 357
Henry of France, 197, 199; William's enemy, 202; Godwine's partisan, 244
Hugh the Great, Count of Paris, 56, 63, 153