Part 17

Sillé-le-Guillaume, 234

Surnames of places, 91, 92; misunderstood, 100, 101, 154-156

Talbot, John, Earl of Shrewsbury, his tower at Falaise, 11, 15, 16

Tancred of Hauteville, his home, 90, 95, 97, 98

Tillières, its position and history, 169-171; church at, 172, 173

Tinchebray, battle of, an English victory, 115, 116, 120; site of the battle, 117

Val-ès-dunes, battle of, a victory of the Roman over the Teuton, 35; site of the battle-field, 36, 37

Valognes, 69, 70

Varaville, battle of, 60

Verneuil, its position, 173; castle and donjon at, 174, 175; churches at, 175-178

Vimont, M. Eugène, his book on Argentan, 128, 136

Vire, 112

Wace, value of his description of the battle of Val-ès-dunes, 37, 38; quoted, 114, 169

Wells, west front of cathedral church compared with that of Coutances, 25; east end compared with Dol, 31

William Longsword, Duke of the Normans, Danish education of his son, 2; wins the Côtentin, 66

William the Conqueror, his church of S. Stephen at Caen, 8; his birthplace, 10, 12; his attempt at learning English, 12; modern estimate of in Falaise, 13; present at the dedication of Odo's church at Bayeux, 28; results of his personal qualities, 34; seeks help of Henry I. of France, 34, 35; burns Mantes, 52; his marriage to Matilda at Eu, 58; Domfront submits to, 56; fortifies Ambrières, 57; his conquest of Mayenne, ib., 230; takes Arques, 59; his surprise of the French at Varaville, 61; his escape from Valognes, 70, 114; fortifies Saint James, 77-79; gives the lands of William of Mortain to his half-brother Robert, 105; opposition of Le Mans to, 212

William Rufus, bids Bishop Hildebert pull down the towers of Saint Julian's, 132, 208

William, Count of Arques, his fortress, 59

William, Count of Mortain, 104; his lands given to Robert, 105; founds l'Abbaye Blanche, 109; with Duke Robert at Tinchebray, 119, 120, 121; taken prisoner, 123; his alleged blinding, ib.

William of Saint-Calais, use of the surname, 155

William Patry, receives Harold at La Lande, 115

William the Lion, King of Scots, does homage to Henry II. at Falaise, 11

THE END.

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY

FOOTNOTES:

Lecture viii. p. 314.

Methods of Hist. Study, Lecture vi. p. 235.

Crewkerne Inaugural Address, 1871.