St. Hilda

Benedict Biscop

Lindesfarne Gospels

Venerable Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Rowsman

Eric Bloodaxe, Harold Bluetooth, Thorkill the Skull Splitter

Bretwaldas (Kings)

Fyrd

Thegns           

Edington (Etheldon)

Guthrum

Treaty of Wedmore

Danelaw

Ealdorman   Ethelred

Witan

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

Battle of Tettenhall

Battle of Brunaburh

Rex Britannia

 

Kings

Alfred the Great 871-899

Edward the Elder (899-924)

 


Athelstan (924-939)

Edgar the Peaceful (959-975)

Edward (975-978)

Ethelred the Redeless (978-1013)

Swegen (1013-1014)

Edmund Ironsides (1014-1016)

Canute (1014-1035)

Harold I (1035-1040) Harold Harefoot

Harthacanute (1040-1042)

Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)

 

Danegeld

Emma

Swein Forkbeard  (Swegen)

Battle of Ashingdon

Godwin of Wessex  

Tostig,  Harold II, the Saxon (Harold Godwinson)  Edith

Eric

Witangemote

Stigand

Robert of Jumieges

Edgar the Aetheling

William of Normandy

Bayeux Tapestry

Esthrison

Harold Hardrada

Stamfordbridge


Battle of Hastings

 

 
Tower of London

Rod=16 ½ feet                                         4                

Acre=4 rods x 40 rods                                                      

Virgate=30 acres or quarter-hide                                              40    

Hide=120 acres

 

Host

 

Hundred

 

Folcland

 

Bocland

 

Trinada necessitas

 

Sac and soc

 

Laeland

 

Open field system

 

Theow

Gebur

Ceorl

Thegn

Eorls

Clergy

Athelings

King

 

Fee simple title

near gebur

Firma burghi

Posse

King’s Peace

Fealty

Life Liberty Property

Prerogative

Rex Anglorum

Rex Anglia

King’s Own

Desmesne

Terra Regis

Purveyance

Wites

Bot

Flotsam, Jetsam, Treasure Trove

Heriot

 

Steward, Chamberlain, Staller, Chancellor

Canon law

Hue and Cry

Bohr

Tithing

 

Manorial or Seignorial

 

Summons   Process or Process of Distress   Pleading 

Oath burst

Award of Proof   Making of Proof   

Compurgation

Peter’s Pence

Minster   or Advowson

Regular clergy

Abbott   Prior

Benedictine Order

Mortmain

 

NORMAN ENGLAND

 

Continental feudalism 

Palatine

Manorial or seigniorial

Great Council      tenants-in-chief

Curia regis

 

King  (overlord)

Tenants in chief  --vassal—lord

Mesne tenants

Knight’s fee=5 hides

 

“Presentment of Englishry

Lanfranc

Subinfeudination

Fief

Bailiff

Liege lord

Frankalmoign

Military

Sergeantry

 

Feudal aids

Feudal Incidents—relief, wardship, marriage

Salisbury Oath

Doomsday Book

Manor system

Demesne

Villeins

Virgate

Work week

Boon work

Relief

 

William

 

Robert     William Rufus    Henry                    Adela

 

Odo

Anselm

Bishop of Salisbury Rannulf Flambard

Pope Urban II

Pallium

Henry I  1100-1135

Charter of Liberties 1100

 

Magna Carta 1215

Alton

Tinchebrae

Investiture

Clerical and lay

Gregory VII

Lay investiture

 

Lion of Justice

Chief Justiciar

Itinerant justices   justices of eyre

Exchequer   pipe rolls

Sheriffs

Matilda

William

white ship”  1120

Geoffrey of Anjou

Stephen of Blois

Plantagenet

 

Robert of Gloucester

 

Anjou, Maine,NormandyAngevin Empire  1154-1399  Poitou

 

Eleanor of Aquitaine

 

Treaty of Westminster  1153

Charter of 1136

Adulterine

Assize of Arms  1181

Chattel property

Scutage  shield money”

Royal writ  crown pleas”

Benefit of clergy

1189 Theobald

Thomas a Becket

Criminus clergy

Constitutions of Clarendon  1164

Advowson    presentment

Agreement of Avranche  1172

Curia regis

1178  en banco

Crown pleas

Itinerant justices

Stare decisis

Saladine

Herbert Walter and Geoffrey Fitzpeter

Crowner  1194

 

Graduated-steps away from the last monarch with heirs

Parentellic-older house extinguished before a younger house

 

Philip II of France

Loire R

Innocent III

Reginald of Christ Church

John de Gray Bishop of Norwich

Stephen Langston

Interdict

St. Albans

Fitzpeter

 

Runnymede

Magna Carta 1215

Gascony

 

Annates

Hugh of Lusignon

Eleanor of Provence

Provisions of Oxford 1258

Simon de Montfort

Edward

Mise of Amiens 1264

Parliament     parler

“Model Parliament  1295

Justinian of England

Statute

Ordinance

Act of Westminster 1295  Statute I

Statute of Mortmain  1279

Statute of Wales  1284

Balliol   Robert Bruce

 

Court of the Exchequer

Court of Common Pleas

Court of the King’s Bench

Justice of eyre

Court of Equity

 

Late Middle Ages 1307-1485

 

Bill of Six Articles

 

Henry III  1216-1272

Edward I  1272-1307 (son)

Edward II  1307-1327 (son)

Edward III  1327-1377 (son)

Richard II  1377-1399 (grandson)

Henry IV 1399-1413 (cousin)

Henry V 1413-1422 (son)

Henry VI 1422-60 1470-1471 (son)

Edward IV 1460-1470  1471-1483

Edward V  1483

Richard III   1483-1485

 

Battle of Bosworth Field 1485

 

First   1337-1360

Calais

Treaty of Bretigny

Second  1360-1380

Third 1380-1414

Fourth 1422-1453

Avignon

Great Schism 1377-1417

John Wycliffe

Transubstantiation

Lollards

Church of England  or Anglican Church

Wat Tyler’s Revolt  1381

Guilds

Thirteen Articles

Henry VII  1485-1509

Henry VIII  son

Edward VI son

Mary I  daughter

Elizabeth I  daughter

Equity law

De la Pole

 

Tudor Gothic

Court of Chancery

Star Chamber

 

Tonnage Poundage

 

Morton’s Fork  1491

Navigation Act 1489

Hanseatic League

Lambert Simnel

Perkin Warbeck

 

Cardinal Wolsey

War of the Holy League

Calais

Lord Chancellor

Duke of Milan

Humanist Movement

Simony

Plurality

Separatio ab initio

Cardinal Campeggio

Bishop Fisher

Thomas More

Statute of Praemunire  1390

Bill of attainder

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cromwell

Probate Act

Act for the Submission of the Clergy  1534

Act in Conditional Restraint of Annates  1532

Act in Restraint of Appeals  1533

Act of Supremacy 1534

National Anglican Church

Supreme Head of the Church

Jane Seymour

Lincolnshire and Yorkshire

Pilgrimage of Grace 1536

Robert Ashe

William Tyndale

Miles Coverdale   1539  The Great Bible”

Book of Common Prayer

Ten Articles  1536

Six Articles  1539

Anne of Cleves

Holbien

Catherine Howard

Catherine Parr

Act of Succession 1544   Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth

Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset

Lord Protector and Governor