Chapter V

1041 Valentine St. head of, at Winchester 189
202 Victor 1st, Pope, decree of 8
1054 Victor 2d, Pope 204
1057 dies 205
403 Victricius Archbishop of Roan 9
903 Virgilius, Abbot of the Scots, dies 116
656 Vitalianus, Pope, confirms Wulfere’s grant
to Medeshamstede (A. D. 664) 41
1076 Vithele Abbot of Westminster 229
455 Vortigern, King, fights with Hengist 12

W

782 Wærburh, Queen, dies 70
1070 Walcelin or Walkelm, Bishop of Winchester,
sent to enquire into the rebellion of the Monks
of St. Augustine (A. D. 1089) 224
1098 dies 264
1080 Walcher, Bishop of Durham, killed 230
1123 Waleram 3d, Earl of Mellent, revolts from
Henry 1st 295
1124 taken and imprisoned 296
1126 removed to England 300
1129 released 306
1129 his friendship with Henry 1st 307
828 Wales invaded by Egbryht 82
853 by Æthelwulf 86
916 by Æthelflæd 121
918 by pirates from Britanny 122
1063 by Earl Harold 206
1081 by William 1st 230
1095 } by William 2d { 259
1097 } { 263

1114 } by Henry 1st { 281
1121 } { 290
1060 Walter Bishop of Hereford 206
1095 Walter, Legate, in England 260
1069 Waltheof, Earl, revolts 212
1070 treats with William 1st 213
1075 revolts, and taken prisoner 227, 228
1076 beheaded 229
1114 Warner, a Monk, sent to Rome 283
913 Warwick built 121
1016 Warwickshire ravaged 176
997 Watchet plundered 154
1048 Welch accuse Godwin and his sons 197
1075 concerned in Earl Ralph’s revolt 229
1094 revolt of the 256
1095 storm Montgomery Castle 259
1121 treat with Henry 1st 290
800 Weoxtan, Alderman, killed 77
852 Werhtherd Abbot 86
449 Wessex, kingdom of, by whom founded 12
495 } Kings of { 15
519 } { 18
626 invaded by Edwin 28
634 converted to Christianity 30
878 } harrassed by the Danes { 96
897 } { 113

887 } { 102
888 } send alms to Rome { 103
890 } { 103
1015 submits to Cnut 176
1016 Wessex, kingdom of, submits to Edmund 178
1066 } Westminster Abbey { 208
1070 } { 220

1097 } Westminster Hall { 264
1099 } { 265

966 Westmoreland ravaged by Thored 154
1039 } { 188
1043 } Wheat, high price of { 190
1124 } { 297
775 Wickins monastery granted to Medeshamstede,
in Offa’s reign 69
1070 Wido Abbot of St. Augustine’s (A. D. 1017) 220
1070 } rebellions against (A. D. 1087) { 221
1070 } (A. D. 1088) { 223
1076 Wido Monk (1088) 224
812 Wigbryht, Bishop of Winchester, goes to Rome 79
833 Wigen, Bishop, killed 82
667 Wigheard, Archbishop of Canterbury elect, dies 43
449 Wight, island, peopled by Jutes 12
530 conquered by Cerdic 18
661 ravaged by Wulfere 42
661 converted to Christianity 43
686 ravaged by Ceadwalla 51
897 } { 113
1001 } by the Danes { 157
1009 } { 165
825 Wiglaf King of Mercia 81
828 regains his kingdom 81
921 Wigmore fortified and besieged 125, 126
799 Wihtburh, relics of, found 76
514 Wihtgar arrives in Britain 17
544 dies 19
694 Wihtred King of Kent 53
725 dies 58
852 Wihtred Abbot 86
656 Wilfrid, or Wilverth, Priest, at the consecration
of Medeshamstede (A. D. 664) 36, 40
664 Archbishop of York 43
675 sent to Rome 45
678 ejected 49
685 restored (A. D. 688) 51
709 dies 56
685 Wilfrid or Wilferth 2d, Archbishop of
York (A. D. 718) 51
744 dies 61
928 William 1st, Earl of Normandy 130
1031 William 2d, Earl of Normandy (the Conqueror) 185
1046 } battles of { 192
1064 } { 204
1062 conquers Maine 206
1066 defeats Harold, and consecrated
King of England 209
1067 goes abroad 211
1068 sacks York 211
1069 lays the north waste 212
1070 despoils monasteries 213
1070 makes peace with Swegn 216
1072 reduces Scotland 226
1073 reduces Maine 227
1074 again in Normandy 227
1075 quells rebellion 228
1076 at war with France 229
1077 makes peace with France 229
1079 fights with his son Robert 230
1081 invades Wales 230
1082 arrests Odo 230
1085 causes a survey to be made of England 234, 240
1086 goes to Normandy 235
1087 invades France & burns Mante 237, 238
1087 dies 238
1087 his character 238-242
1079 William, Prince, wounded 230
1087 2d, King of England 220, 243
1087 his gifts to the Church 243
1088 quells Odo’s rebellion 247
1090 at war with his brother Robert 249
1091 makes peace with Robert 250
1091 with Malcolm 251
1092 repairs Carlisle 252
1093 his illness 252
1093 quarrels with Malcolm 253
1094 William 2d, King of England, at war with Robert 255
1095 invades Wales 259
1095 quells the Northumbrian rebellion 259, 260
1096 receives Normandy for a sum of money 262
1097 invades Wales 263
1098 in Normandy 264
1090 reduces Maine 265
1100 killed, and his character 266, 267
1048 William Bishop of London 199
1070 William Fitz Osborne, Earl of Hereford, killed 217
1075 his daughter’s marriage 227
1070 William Bishop of Durham (A. D. 1080) 219
1088 rebels 244
1096 dies 261
1085 William Bishop of Elmham 233
1096 William, Earl of Eu, blinded 261
1096 William de Aldrey hanged 261
1100 William Giffard Bishop of Winchester 267
1103 leaves England 271
1123 assists at the consecration of
William Corboyl 294
1129 dies 307
1106 William Crispin taken prisoner 276
1112 loses his lands 281
1110 William Mallet loses his lands 279
1110 William Baynard loses his lands 279
1112 William, Earl of Evreux, expelled 281
1115 William, Prince, son of Henry 1st, receives
homage from the Normans 283
1119 marries the Earl of Anjou’s daughter 287
1120 drowned 288
1123 William Corboyl, Archbishop of Canterbury 293
1123 with difficulty obtains a pall at Rome 294
1125 again journeys to Rome 300
1129 holds a synod 307
1135 consecrates Stephen 313
1140 dies 319
1137 William, St. crucified (A. D. 1144) 318
1138 William, Earl of Albemarle, defeats David
at the battle of the Standard 319
1140 William of Romare, Earl of Lincoln, revolts
and defeats Stephen 319, 320
1124 William, son of Robert, Earl of Normandy,
at war with Henry 1st 297
1127 divorced from Sibylla of Anjou 302
1127 Earl of Flanders 302
1128 killed 305
1154 William de Waltville, Abbot of Peterborough 324
1003 Wilton burnt 159
1015 Wiltshire plundered 175
660 Wina, Bishop of Winchester 42
656 Bishop of London, at the consecration
of Medeshamstede (A. D. 664) 36, 40
718 Winborn minster built 57
643 Winchester, old minster at, built 32
963 monasteries at, founded by Athelwold 139
1140 besieged by Stephen’s Queen,
Matilda, (A. D. 1141) 320
1103 } { 272
1114 } { 282
1118 } Winds high { 287
1121 } { 290
1122 } { 290
} { 291

761 } { 66
1111 } Winter severe { 280
1115 } { 284
1116 } {
465 Wipped killed 13
887 Witha (Guido) King of Lombardy 102
913 Witham fortified 120
755 Wiverth Thane 64
477 Wlencing arrives in England 13
495 } { 15
552 } Woden, ancestor of Cerdic, and the West Saxon {
} Kings { 20
597 } { 24
854 } { 87
547 of Ida, and the Northumbrian
Kings 19
560 of Ælla 20
449 } of Penda, and the Mercian Kings { 12
626 } { 29
755 Woden, ancestor of Offa 65
800 Worr, Alderman, dies 77
1006 Wulfeah blinded 161
989 Wulfgar Abbot of Abingdon 150
1016 dies 181
1006 Wulfgeate disgraced 160
823 Wulfheard, Alderman, invades Kent 80
837 defeats the Danes, and dies 83
897 Wulfheard, a Frisian, killed 114
925 Wulfhelm, Archbishop of Canterbury 130
927 goes to Rome 131
656 Wulfhere King of Mercia 35
656 charters Medeshamstede (A. D. 664) 37
661 gives Wight to Æthelwald 42
675 dies 45
1001 Wulfhere, a Bishop’s Thane, killed 156
1009 Wulfnoth, revolt of 163, 164
803 Wulfred Archbishop of Canterbury 78
812 goes to Rome 79
813 returns 79
829 dies 82
852 Wulfred rents Sempringham 85
897 Wulfred, Alderman of Hampshire, dies 113
897 Wulfric, Sheriff of Wales, dies 115
1010 Wulfric, the son of Leofwin, killed 166
1043 Wulfric Abbot of St. Augustine’s 191
1046 sent to the Synod of St. Remy 193
1061 dies 206
1070 Wulfric, Abbot of the new Monastery,
Winchester, deposed (A. D. 1071) 218
963 Wulfstan, Deacon, dies 139
1084 Wulfwold, Abbot of Chertsey, dies 232
1016 Wulsige, Abbot of Ramsey, killed 180
956 Wulstan 1st, Archbishop of York, dies 137
1023 Wulstan or Wulfstan 2d, Archbishop of York, dies 184
1070 Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester, assists in
consecrating a Bishop of the Orkneys
(A. D. 1076) 219
1070 at the consecration of William
Bishop of Durham (A. D. 1080) 219
1088 defeats the rebels 245
1070 Wulstcetel, Abbot of Croyland, ejected (A. D. 1085) 220

Y

626 York, church built at (A. D. 627) 28, 29
741 burnt 61
923 taken 130
1068 } sacked { 211
1069 } { 212
952 Yric King of Northumberland 136
954 expelled 136
1016 Yric Earl of Northumberland 177
1017 confirmed in his government 181
1046 Yrling plunders Sandwich 192
905 Ysopa, Hold, killed 118
1070 Ywar Churchwarden of Peterborough 214

ERRATA.

Page 9, for 410 read 418.
22, for Ætheric read _Æthelric_.
32, line 9, for Oswin read _Oswiu_.
43, for Wilver read _Wilverth_.
49, for St. Æthelfrith read St. _Ætheldrith_.
56, for Beorht read _Beorhtfrith_.
58, for Ealdherht read _Eadberht_.
69, for Æthelbald read _Æthebald_.
180, note, for Ashdon, &c. read _Assington, near Rochford_.
181, for Æthelwold read _Æthelword_.

STEVENSON, MATCHETT, AND STEVENSON, PRINTERS, NORWICH.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] Caligula.

[B] Caracalla.

[C] Valentinian had reigned in the west from the year 425, therefore the Cotton MS. is more correct in saying, “Martian and Valentinian _reigned_,” &c.

[D] The _Weald_ of Kent and Sussex; this forest formerly extended into Hampshire.

[E] A Roman station in the forest of Andred, probably on the Sussex coast; Somner supposes it to be Pevensey, Gibson a fort near Hastings.

[F] Generally supposed to be Chersley, Buckinghamshire; Gibson thinks that the Britons must have retired further westward, and that therefore this is not the place; but in 556 they are found at Banbury.

[G] Deira.

[H] Dalston, Cumberland, according to Gibson: Turner (Hist. of the Anglo Saxons), supposes it to be Dawston, near Jedburgh.

[I] Now Peterborough.

[J] Uncertain--but the ditch Assendik is mentioned as the northern boundary of Croyland by the charter of Ethelbald, and described by Ingulphus as falling into the Welland.

[K] Bishop of Lindisfarn, expelled because he would not observe the appointed time of Easter.

[L] Unknown. Bede gives Pægnalauh as the place of his death, and Smith supposes this to be Pinkley, near Durham.

[M] Henry of Huntingdon says that the birds fought and killed each other, and gives a similar story of his own time.

[N] Perhaps some place near Cosgrave, Northamptonshire, if Stretford be Old Stratford (opposite to Stony Stratford).

[O] Pepin 2d Mayor.

[P] Uncertain, but Simeon of Durham says that this battle was fought “_juxta Eldunum secus Melross_.”

[Q] This place uncertain--the final ee marks a Bishop’s residence, as Hagulstades-ee, Hexham.

[R] Perhaps either Northallerton, or Aller-thorn, near Pocklington, Yorkshire.

[S] Perhaps Kilcheth, on the southern border of Lancashire.

[T] Inhabitants of the country east of the Severn--the ancient diocese of Worcester.

[U] He had been deposed by Egbryht.

[V] So it seems from a var. reading, “And Æthelstan his other (or 2d) son succeeded to the kingdom of Kent, to Surrey, and to Sussex.” Henry of Huntingdon and Roger de Hoveden also make Æthelstan the son of Egbert, but Ethelwerd, William of Malmesbury, and Asser, speak of him as the son of Æthelwulf.

[W] Supposed to be Aston Tyrrell, Berkshire; or Ashendon, Buckinghamshire.

[X] Omitted in the Cotton MS. the elder Sidrac having been killed before.

[Y] Turner supposes this to be Morton, Berkshire, “because the Chronicle of Mailros, p. 144, places the battle at Reading, and according to the map Morton Hundred joins Reading, and contains both North Morton and South Morton.”--Hist. Anglo Saxons, vol. i. p. 240.

[Z] So Lye explains sumor-lida, and with most probability; but Gibson translates it “_quies æstiva_;” and Henry of Huntingdon and Ethelwerd turn it into “_æstivus exercitus_.”

[AA] The chief oath among the Northern nations. In Iceland, in the time of heathenism, a silver or brazen ring or bracelet was kept on the altars, and being sprinkled with the blood of sacrifices, it was touched by those who took any solemn oath. For the same purpose it was worn on the Judge’s arm during trials. See the Chrymogæa of Arngrim Jonas, p. 62 and 76.

[AB] Over sea to Louvain, according to Ethelwerd.

[AC] To oppose a fleet of heathen Germans.

[AD] After the defeat and death of the King St. Edmund.--Simeon of Durham.

[AE] It seems that Alfred had left part of his troops to watch the Danes in Essex, and had gone himself in another direction.

[AF] Of Devonshire.--Henry of Huntingdon.

[AG] Torfæus, Hist. Norv. T. ii. p. 50, says, that the Danish Haulldur, or Hold, was a Noble by birth, as distinguished from the Hersir, who held an official rank.

By the laws of Athelstan, the Wergyld of a Hold and of a Heh-gerefa was fixed at 4000 thrymsas--whilst that of a Bishop and of an Alderman was 8000 thrymsas.

Wilkin’s Leg. Ang. Sax. p. 71.

[AH] Gibson supposes this place to be somewhere in the tract of the New Forest; possibly Ifford.

[AI] Eddesbury, in Cheshire; a place now called the Chamber in the Forest.

[AJ] Probably Cherbury, on the borders of Shropshire--possibly Kirkby, in Cheshire, or Monk’s Kirkby, Warwickshire, according to Dugdale.

[AK] Probably Wednesbury or Weedsbury, Staffordshire.

[AL] In this part of the Chronicle the Saxon word Burh, which I have translated town, recurs perpetually; it would appear that the predatory warfare, existing every where, had compelled the inhabitants of the country to gather themselves into townships, for the sake of mutual protection; these were probably surrounded by some species of inclosure as a defence against sudden attacks. The erection of a stone wall seems to be considered worthy of mention, as a work but rarely undertaken.

[AM] Turner, in a note, p. 365 of the 1st vol. of his Anglo-Saxon Hist. gives the following passage from a manuscript of the Chronicle relating to this year:--

“This year the Northumbrians revolted from their allegiance, and chose Anlaf of Ireland for their King.”

[AN] Almost every writer differs in the position which he would assign to this place.

[AO] “It was widely known how he ended his day, when Liofa stabbed him at Pulcancyrca (Pucklechurch, in Gloucestershire.)” From another MS. Turner, vol. i. p. 368.

[AP] Alfsin was the immediate successor of Odo, but he died of cold on the Alps, in his journey to Rome for the pall.

[AQ] His plunder to the ships.

[AR] Enumerated an. 942.

[AS] Comprehending the “Five towns,” with York and Chester.

[AT] “Certain of his auxiliaries.”--Simeon of Durham.

[AU] Saresden, Oxon.

[AV] Ashdon, Assington, near Rochford.

[AW] Bishop of Lincoln.

[AX] This year Cnut was chosen King.--Var. read.

[AY] To observe respectively the laws of King Edgar.

Simeon of Durham.

[AZ] William of Malmesbury says that this Church was much out of repair in his time.--Gough considers Assandun to be Assington, near Rochford.

[BA] Near Calmar or near Christianstadt.

Torfæus Hist. Norv. t. iii. p. 147.

[BB] Eadsige was not a Bishop, but the King’s Chaplain.

[BC] From Normandy.

[BD] In Normandy: between William, assisted by Henry of France, and the Barons who refused to acknowledge his right to the succession.

[BE] Of Dorchester, Oxon.

[BF] In Normandy: between the forces of William, and those of Henry of France, in which the latter were totally routed.

[BG] S. Wales.

[BH] He would have substituted the chant of William of Fescamp for that of Gregory.

Florence of Worcester.

[BI] A Church at Odensee, dedicated to St. Alban, whose relics had been brought from England by this Canute.

[BJ] Carlisle?

[BK] A payment to the superior Lord for protection.

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Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Other spelling has also been retained as originally published except for the changes below.

Text has been corrected to match the Errata page. Since the footnotes begin right after the Errata, the note, "for Ashdon, &c. read Assington, near Rochford" which points to page 180 actually is footnote AV.

Other changes:

Page 7: “Pope Telesphorns ordered” “Pope Telesphorus ordered”
Page 49: “subcribe to it” “subscribe to it”
Page 81: “the forth Rædwald” “the fourth Rædwald”
Page 220: “examined and conserated” “examined and consecrated”
Page 265: “Robert suceeded him” “Robert succeeded him”
Page 269: “And in the mean time” “And in the meantime”
Page 353: “818 depart to Ireland” “918 depart to Ireland”
Page 361: “recals St. Dunstan” “recalls St. Dunstan”
Page 387: “Moreal, Earl Robert’s” “Moræl, Earl Robert’s”
Page 420: “Ealdherht read _Eadberht_” “Ealdberht read _Eadberht_”

Footnote AA : “the Northen nations” “the Northern nations”

Page number references in the index are as published in the original publication and have not been checked for accuracy.