Part 14

Malger, Count of Mortain, 104

Mantes, 51, 53

Matilda of Flanders, Queen, her church of the Holy Trinity at Caen, 8; married to William at Eu, 58

Matilda, daughter of Richard the Fearless, marries Odo of Chartres, 170; dispute about her dowry, ib.

Matilda, Abbess of Almenèches, 143

Mayenne, 57, 58, 225, 230, 231

Montacute, siege of, raised by Geoffrey of Mowbray, 67; Norman name of Leodgaresburh (Lutgaresburg), 105

Mortagne, 101

Mortain, its position, 101, 102; site of the castle, 103; its history, 104; foundation of Saint-Evroul at, 105

Mortemer, battle of, 35; its position, 38, 39; reason for its historic interest, ib.; surprise of the French at, 40

Næodunum, 190, 198. See Jublains

Neufbourg, 110

Neufchâtel-en-Bray, its hills and cheeses, 39

Names, confusion of, 100, 101, 154, 155

Nomenclature, personal, in Normandy, affected by Hundred Years' War, 5; local traces of Danish, in Normandy, 6; in Gaul, 63

Normandy, its points of likeness with England, 3, 4, 41; compared with France proper, 3; Teutonic elements in, 5, 6; traces of Danish local nomenclature in, 6; its ecclesiastical buildings, 8; compared with those of France proper, 9, 23, 24; restoration and destruction in, 17-20, 29; importance of its early history, 33; its political absorption by France, 41, 218

Normans and English, original kindred of, 5-7; in England, English fusion of, 15; in Normandy, French fusion of, ib.

Notre-Dame, Avesnières, 233

Notre-Dame, Domfront, 57

Notre-Dame, Saint-Lo, 83-85

Notre-Dame, Verneuil, 178

Notre-Dame de La Couture, Abbey of, Le Mans, 209, 220, 226

Notre-Dame de la Place, Argentan, 136

Notre-Dame-du-Pré, Le Mans, 209, 220, 226

Odelerius, sends his son Orderic to Saint-Evroul, 162

Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, his work at Bayeux, 26, 28

Odo II., Count of Chartres, refuses to give up his wife's dowry, 170; defeated, 171

Orderic (Vital), at Neufbourg, 110, 119; at Saint-Evroul, 143, 160, 162