The Political History of England ...: Adams, G.B. From the Norman conquest to the death of Edward III (1066-1216)William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole Longmans, Green and Company, 1905 - Great Britain |
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Common terms and phrases
Angevin Anjou Anselm Aquitaine archbishop army attack barons Becket beginning bishops Britanny brother Canterbury castles CHAP charter chronicle Church clergy conflict Conquest Constitutions of Clarendon contemporary coronation council Count of Flanders court crown crusade curia regis danger death declared demand duchy Duke Eadmer Earl ecclesiastical enemies English evidence excommunication father favour feudal fiefs force formal French Geoffrey granted heir held Henry II Henry's homage Hubert Walter important influence interest Ireland John John's justiciar king of England king of France king's kingdom land Lanfranc later legate London Louis marriage Matilda monks Norman Normandy oath once Orderic Vitalis peace Philip Poitou pope possession probably promised question Ranulf Flambard rebellion refused reign Richard Robert Rolls Series royal Scotland scutage secure seems sent siege Stephen strong success surrender Thomas Becket tion took treaty vassal William Winchester young Henry young king
Popular passages
Page 446 - Callistus, who, at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century, dedicated his work to Andr-onicus Palseologus.
Page 233 - Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land. Wretched men starved with hunger. Some lived on alms, who had been erewhile rich. Some fled the country. Never was there more misery, and never acted heathens worse than these.
Page 232 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Page 143 - CHAP. really stating in it, as he said he was, the customs of his vn grandfather's time. The clause reads: "When an archbishopric or bishopric or abbey or priory of the king's domain has fallen vacant, it ought to be in the king's hands, and he shall take thence all the returns and revenues as domain revenues, and when the time has come to provide for the Church, the king shall call for the chief persons of the Church [that is, summon a representation of the Church to himself], and in the king's...
Page 349 - ... crowned king. All rights over the disputed county of Auvergne were abandoned. Richard was acknowledged heir and was to receive the homage of all barons. Those who had given in their allegiance to Richard should remain with him till the crusade, which was to be begun the next spring, and 20,000 marks were to be paid the king of France for his expenses on the captured castles, which were to be returned to Henry. These were the principal conditions, and to all these Henry agreed as he must. That...