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Authors: Geoffrey Hindley
Cerdic dynasty
205
,
212–13
,
214
,
262–3
,
272–3
Chad, bishop of Lichfield
81
,
278
Charlemagne
see
Charles the Great
Charles II (the Bald)
164
,
166
,
168
,
184
,
186
,
208
,
217
,
227
Charles III of West Francia
272
Charles the Great
61
,
85
,
92
,
103
,
105
,
107
,
108–9
,
120
,
127
,
137
,
139
,
141
,
150
,
151
,
153–4
,
158
,
162
,
165–9
,
171–4
,
183
,
223
Charles Martel
61
,
127
,
128
,
132
,
135
Chelsea, Council of
92
Chester
198
,
206
,
268
,
277
,
285
,
335
,
362
,
363
Chester, battle of
63
Childeric III
136–7
chirographs
259
Anglo-Saxon missions to Germany
120–49
Canterbury and organization of
43–8
and kingship
28
Vikings and
202
see also
under individual kingdoms
Church, Anglo-Saxon
32–7
,
43–8
,
68–9
,
105–8
,
223
,
278–82
,
313–14
,
324–5
,
345–6
church building
110–11
,
279
,
325
,
345
see also
Christianity
Clovis, king of the Franks
28
,
33
,
61
,
121
Cnut, king
144
,
182
,
256
,
278
,
283
,
291
,
297
,
300
,
302
,
303–4
,
305
,
306
,
307
,
308–15
,
319
,
321
Coenwulf, king of Mercia
107
,
113–14
Coifi (pagan high priest)
65–6
coinage, Anglo-Saxon
113–17
,
206
,
215
,
278
,
284–7
,
297
,
312–13
,
317
Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne
80
Conrad II, Emperor
315
Constantine II, king of Scots
267
,
269
Countisbury Hill, battle of
191
crowning, tradition of
104–5
culture, Anglo-Saxon
cultural legacy
353
under Alfred the Great
215–18
,
221–3
see also
building; calligraphy; carving; learning and scholarship; literature; music
Cumbria
202–3
Cuthbert, archbishop of Canterbury
106
,
142
Cuthbert, St
46
,
62
,
75–7
,
177
,
192
,
203–4
,
271
,
279
Cuthburg, abbess of Wimborne
56
Cuthred, king of Wessex
57
Cuthred, sub-king of Kent
114
Cynegils, king of Wessex
44
,
49
,
69–70
Cyneheard
58
Cynewulf, king of Wessex
57–8
,
244
Cynric
16–17
Dagobert II, king of the Franks
121–2
Dál Riata (Dalriada)
10
,
32
,
63
,
70
danegeld
302
Daniel, bishop of Winchester
xxxviii
,
129
,
137
Deerhurst minster
112
defence and fortifications, Anglo-Saxon
226–32
,
298
Degsastan, battle of
63
Deira
20
,
21
,
22
,
23–4
,
32
,
60
,
62
,
67
,
72
,
73
,
199
,
200
Deusdedit, archbishop of Canterbury
45
,
96
dialects
xxxiv–xxxv
,
242
,
249
Dream of the Rood, The
88
,
242
,
250
Dryhthelm, vision of
84
Dunstan, abbot of Glastonbury, archbishop of Canterbury
275
,
276
,
280–2
,
289
Durham
204
Eadbald, king of Kent
43