Foundation (History of England Vol 1) (76 page)

supposed survival and peregrinations,
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military ineptness,
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Richard II and,
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Edward III, King: father sends to France to do fealty for Gascony,
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and rebellion against father,
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character,
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,
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crowned,
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has Mortimer killed,
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reign and administration,
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wars with Scotland,
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,
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claims throne of France,
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,
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restores knightly virtues,
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and conduct of Hundred Years War,
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,
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,
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,
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as warrior,
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taxation,
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relations with parliament,
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asserts authority,
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invades Normandy,
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and Black Death,
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and capture of King John II of France,
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accepts treaties and truces in France,
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achievements,
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death,
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Edward IV, King (
earlier
Earl of March and Duke of York): Black Book,
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in Wars of the Roses,
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appearance and character,
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,
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crowned,
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extravagance and display,
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,
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treatment of Lancastrians,
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foreign policy,
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,
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,
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strong rule,
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view of French,
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marriage to commoner (Elizabeth Woodville),
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,
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sociability,
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and Robin of Redesdale rebellion,
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captured, confined in Warwick Castle and released,
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defeats Lincolnshire rebels (1470),
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and Warwick’s 1470 invasion,
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flees to Holland,
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returns to England to counter Warwick,
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defeats Warwick at Barnet,
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participates in trade,
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and succession,
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,
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purges enemies,
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treaty with Louis XI (1475),
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has Clarence killed,
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,
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arranges family marriages,
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illness and death,
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solvency,
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Edward V, King (
earlier
Prince of Wales): marriage prospects,
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accession and reign,
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,
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confined in Tower and killed,
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,
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and Richard III’s seizure of crown,
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Edward the Confessor, King of the English,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Edward the Elder, King of the Angles and Saxons,
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Edward, Prince (Richard III’s son): death,
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Edward, Prince of Wales (Henry VI’s son): birth,
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mother protects,
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as claimant to throne,
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,
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and Wars of the Roses,
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betrothal and marriage to Warwick’s daughter,
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,
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killed at Tewkesbury,
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Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales (‘the Black Prince’): military activities,
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health decline and death,
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sets up court at Bordeaux,
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Edwin, King of Northumberland,
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,
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II,
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,
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,
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Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I: death,
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Crosses,
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and birth of Edward II,
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Eleanor of Provence, Queen of Henry III,
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,
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Elizabeth I, Queen: authority,
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Elizabeth II, Queen: coronation,
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Elizabeth (Woodville), Queen of Edward IV: marriage,
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twice takes sanctuary in Westminster Abbey,
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,
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,
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children,
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hostility to Clarence,
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and son’s succession to throne,
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surrenders son Richard to Richard III,
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and Lady Margaret Beaufort,
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supports Lambert Simnel,
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sent to nunnery,
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Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry VII: marriage to Henry,
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,
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,
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,
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Richard III’s supposed plan to marry,
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death,
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Elmet (kingdom),
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Eltham palace,
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Ely: as centre of Hereward’s resistance,
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school,
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Emma, Queen of Ethelred and of Canute,
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Empson, Richard,
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enclosures: in Bronze Age,
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eighteenth-century Enclosure Acts,
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and sheep breeding,
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Engels, Friedrich,
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England: early settlement,
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,
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formed,
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regional divisions,
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,
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Romans invade and colonize,
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,
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,
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,
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tribes,
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government and social development under Romans,
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early Christianity in,
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incursion by northern tribes,
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Roman rule ends,
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post-Roman division and administration,
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name,
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under Anglo-Saxons,
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converted to Christianity,
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urbanization under Alfred the Great,
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as Anglo-Saxon realm,
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administrative units,
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land ownership,
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national identity formed,
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involvement with France,
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resistance to William the Conqueror,
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under Norman rule,
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frontier with Scotland defined,
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development of bureaucracy,
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Normans assimilated,
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increased prosperity under Henry II,
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archives and records develop,
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,
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civil disorder under Edward II,
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rivalry with France,
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in Hundred Years War against France,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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popular discontent (1377),
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established as nation under Henry V,
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foreigners’ views of,
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loses possessions in France,
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,
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economic fortunes in fifteenth century,
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,
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prosperity under Edward IV,
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historical change,
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political and legal systems,
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foreign-born monarchs,
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English language: under Normans,
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literary and official development,
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prevalence under Henry V,
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Epona (horse goddess),
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Ermine Street,
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esquires,
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Essex: rebels in Peasants’ Revolt,
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,
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estates (landed),
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Ethelred II (‘the unready’), King of the English,
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,
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Eton College,
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Evesham, battle of (1265),
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Evesham, monk of (chronicler),
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Evreux, Louis, Count of,
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exchequer: developed under Henry I,
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fairs and markets,
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,
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