remarries (Margaret), ref 1
death, ref 1
Edward II, King: acclaimed Prince of Wales, ref 1
birth and upbringing, ref 1
character and tastes, ref 1
coronation, ref 1
marriage and children, ref 1
relations with Piers Gaveston, ref 1
baronial opposition to, ref 1
conflict with Scots, ref 1, ref 2
and execution of Gaveston, ref 1
disgraced by Bannockburn defeat, ref 1
appoints Despenser chamberlain, ref 1
provokes civil war and violence, ref 1
authority and tyrannical rule, ref 1, ref 2
calls parliament at York (1322), ref 1
dispute over Gascony, ref 1
Isabella rebels against, ref 1
deposed and killed, ref 1
supposed survival and peregrinations, ref 1
military ineptness, ref 1
Richard II and, ref 1
Edward III, King: father sends to France to do fealty for Gascony, ref 1
and rebellion against father, ref 1
character, ref 1, ref 2
crowned, ref 1
has Mortimer killed, ref 1
reign and administration, ref 1
wars with Scotland, ref 1, ref 2
claims throne of France, ref 1, ref 2
restores knightly virtues, ref 1
and conduct of Hundred Years War, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
as warrior, ref 1
taxation, ref 1
relations with parliament, ref 1
asserts authority, ref 1
invades Normandy, ref 1
and Black Death, ref 1
and capture of King John II of France, ref 1
accepts treaties and truces in France, ref 1
achievements, ref 1
death, ref 1
Edward IV, King (earlier Earl of March and Duke of York): Black Book, ref 1
in Wars of the Roses, ref 1
appearance and character, ref 1, ref 2
crowned, ref 1
extravagance and display, ref 1, ref 2
treatment of Lancastrians, ref 1
foreign policy, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
strong rule, ref 1
view of French, ref 1
marriage to commoner (Elizabeth Woodville), ref 1, ref 2
sociability, ref 1
and Robin of Redesdale rebellion, ref 1
captured, confined in Warwick Castle and released, ref 1
defeats Lincolnshire rebels (1470), ref 1
and Warwick’s 1470 invasion, ref 1
flees to Holland, ref 1
returns to England to counter Warwick, ref 1
defeats Warwick at Barnet, ref 1
participates in trade, ref 1
and succession, ref 1, ref 2
purges enemies, ref 1
treaty with Louis XI (1475), ref 1
has Clarence killed, ref 1, ref 2
arranges family marriages, ref 1
illness and death, ref 1
solvency, ref 1
Edward V, King (earlier Prince of Wales): marriage prospects, ref 1
accession and reign, ref 1, ref 2
confined in Tower and killed, ref 1, ref 2
and Richard III’s seizure of crown, ref 1
Edward the Confessor, King of the English, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
Edward the Elder, King of the Angles and Saxons, ref 1
Edward, Prince (Richard III’s son): death, ref 1
Edward, Prince of Wales (Henry VI’s son): birth, ref 1
mother protects, ref 1
as claimant to throne, ref 1, ref 2
and Wars of the Roses, ref 1
betrothal and marriage to Warwick’s daughter, ref 1, ref 2
killed at Tewkesbury, ref 1
Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales (‘the Black Prince’): military activities, ref 1
health decline and death, ref 1
sets up court at Bordeaux, ref 1
Edwin, King of Northumberland, ref 1, ref 2
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I: death, ref 1
Crosses, ref 1
and birth of Edward II, ref 1
Eleanor of Provence, Queen of Henry III, ref 1, ref 2
Elizabeth I, Queen: authority, ref 1
Elizabeth II, Queen: coronation, ref 1
Elizabeth (Woodville), Queen of Edward IV: marriage, ref 1
twice takes sanctuary in Westminster Abbey, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
children, ref 1
hostility to Clarence, ref 1
and son’s succession to throne, ref 1
surrenders son Richard to Richard III, ref 1
and Lady Margaret Beaufort, ref 1
supports Lambert Simnel, ref 1
sent to nunnery, ref 1
Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry VII: marriage to Henry, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Richard III’s supposed plan to marry, ref 1
death, ref 1
Elmet (kingdom), ref 1
Eltham palace, ref 1
Ely: as centre of Hereward’s resistance, ref 1
school, ref 1
Emma, Queen of Ethelred and of Canute, ref 1
Empson, Richard, ref 1
enclosures: in Bronze Age, ref 1
eighteenth-century Enclosure Acts, ref 1
and sheep breeding, ref 1
Engels, Friedrich, ref 1
England: early settlement, ref 1, ref 2
formed, ref 1
regional divisions, ref 1, ref 2
Romans invade and colonize, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
tribes, ref 1
government and social development under Romans, ref 1
early Christianity in, ref 1
incursion by northern tribes, ref 1
Roman rule ends, ref 1
post-Roman division and administration, ref 1
name, ref 1
under Anglo-Saxons, ref 1
converted to Christianity, ref 1
urbanization under Alfred the Great, ref 1
as Anglo-Saxon realm, ref 1
administrative units, ref 1
land ownership, ref 1
national identity formed, ref 1
involvement with France, ref 1
resistance to William the Conqueror, ref 1
under Norman rule, ref 1
frontier with Scotland defined, ref 1
development of bureaucracy, ref 1
Normans assimilated, ref 1
increased prosperity under Henry II, ref 1
archives and records develop, ref 1, ref 2
civil disorder under Edward II, ref 1
rivalry with France, ref 1
in Hundred Years War against France, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
popular discontent (1377), ref 1
established as nation under Henry V, ref 1
foreigners’ views of, ref 1
loses possessions in France, ref 1, ref 2
economic fortunes in fifteenth century, ref 1, ref 2
prosperity under Edward IV, ref 1
historical change, ref 1
political and legal systems, ref 1
foreign-born monarchs, ref 1
English language: under Normans, ref 1
literary and official development, ref 1
prevalence under Henry V, ref 1
Epona (horse goddess), ref 1
Ermine Street, ref 1
esquires, ref 1
Essex: rebels in Peasants’ Revolt, ref 1, ref 2
estates (landed), ref 1
Ethelred II (‘the unready’), King of the English, ref 1, ref 2
Eton College, ref 1
Evesham, battle of (1265), ref 1
Evesham, monk of (chronicler), ref 1
Evreux, Louis, Count of, ref 1
exchequer: developed under Henry I, ref 1
fairs and markets, ref 1, ref 2
Falkirk, battle of (1298), ref 1
famines: (1086), ref 1
(1257), ref 1
(1314), ref 1
farming: beginnings, ref 1
Bronze Age, ref 1, ref 2
Iron Age, ref 1, ref 2
under Romans, ref 1
and climate change, ref 1
under Anglo-Saxons, ref 1
under Henry III, ref 1
and seasons, ref 1
regional diversity, ref 1
routines, ref 1
and a money economy, ref 1
see also harvest failures
Fastolf, Sir John, ref 1, ref 2
Faversham monastery, ref 1
fens: drained under Romans, ref 1
festivals and pastimes: seasonal, ref 1
feudalism, ref 1, ref 2
fields: formed, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
regional diversity and patterns, ref 1
Fieschi, Manuel di, ref 1
Fishbourne, Sussex, ref 1
Fitz-Osbert, William (or William the Beard), ref 1
Fitzstephen, William, ref 1, ref 2
fitz Walter, Robert, ref 1, ref 2
Flanders: rebellion (fourteenth century), ref 1
English campaign in (1383), ref 1
French hold, ref 1
Flemings: settle in Pembrokeshire, ref 1
flint: artefacts, ref 1
tools, ref 1, ref 2
mining, ref 1
Flint Castle, Wales, ref 1