Ælfgar, rebel earl of East Anglia and Mercia
Irish mercenaries
Ælfheah, ealdorman
Ælfhere, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1012)
Ælfric, archbishop
Ælfric of Hampshire
Ælfwold, bishop of Crediton
Ælfwynn, daughter of Æthelflæd
Æsc (spear)
Æthelbald, king of Mercia (716–57)
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians
at Chester
takes Derby
Æthelhelm, ealdorman of Wiltshire
Æthelnoth, ealdorman of Somerset
Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia
Æthelred I, king of Wessex (865–71)
Æthelred II (979–1016)
1008 decree
emergency fortifications
exile
naval reforms
orders ships to London (992)
ravaging of Lindsey
St Brice’s Day massacre (1002)
use of mercenaries
Æthelric, bishop of Sherbourne
Æthelric of Bocking
Æthelweard, chronicler
Æthelwine, nephew of Earl Leofric
Æthelwold, challenger to the throne
Æthelwulf, ealdorman of Berkshire
Aberlemno Stone, the
Abingdon abbey
Alfred the Great (871–99)
at Ashdown
at Edington
capture of London
death and succession issues
early campaigns against the Vikings
military reforms navy
Alfred, son of Æthelred II murder of (1036)
ambushes
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Annals of St Neots
Appledore, Kent
Archenfield
armour
lamellar
difficulties in dating
method of construction
square chest patch on Norman garments
‘trousered’ byrnie issue
use as aventails in helmets
scale
‘soft’ armour
army
fyrd
here
numbers
recruitment mechanics
structure
summoning
Ashdown, Battle of (871)
Ashingdon, Battle of (1016)
askrs see ships
Asser, Alfred’s biographer
Athelstan, Ætheling (d. 1014)
Athelstan, king of England (924–39)
campaign in Scotland (934)
laws on burhs
laws on horses
relations with Bretons
Athelstan, king of Kent
naval victory at Sandwich (851)
Avebury, ancient monument
Axbridge
axes
Badbury Rings
Bagsecg, Danish leader
Baldwin of Flanders
Bamburgh
Basing, Battle of (871)
Bath
Battle, East Sussex
Bayeux Tapestry, the
beacons
Bede, the Venerable
Bedford
Benfleet
Beorhtric, ealdorman
Beowulf
Berkshire
Bloodaxe, Eric
Bokerley Dyke
Bookland
bows
evidence for military usage
literary references
Brecon Mere, Wales
Bretons
Brevis Relatio
Bridgnorth
Bridport
Brunanburh, Battle of (937)
Battle of Brunanburh (poem)
Buckingham
Burghal Hidage see fortifications
Burgred, king of Mercia (852–74)
burhs see fortifications
butsecarls
Buttington
Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex
Canterbury
Carmen, The
castles
cavalry see horses
Ceolwulf II, puppet king of Western Mercia (874–c. 80)
ceorls
Charles the Bald, king of Western Franks (840–77)
Chester
Chichester
Chronicle of Battle Abbey
Cirencester
Cnut, king of England and Denmark
law code II Cnut(1020–3)
laws against cowardice and desertion
taxation
coifs
Colchester
common burdens, the
Comnena, Anna, Byzantine historian
Coppergate Helmet see helmets
Cornwall
cottars
Cricklade
crossbows
Cwichelmslow, Berkshire
Danegeld
Danelaw
daroð (spear)
Derby
Devil’s Dyke
Devon
Domesday Book
Dorset
Dover as supplier of vessels
duguð (senior warrior)
Dunnichen, Battle of (685)
Durham
Eadmer, historian
Eadred I, king of the Anglo-Saxons (946–55)
Edgar the Ætheling (brief recognition as king 1066)
Edgar the Peaceable, king (959–75)
naval provision
rowed on the Dee by subservient leaders
Edington, Battle of (878)
Edmund, king of East Anglia
Edmund I (939–46)
Edmund II Ironside (1016)
Edward the Confessor (1042–66)
discontinues heregeld
Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons (900–24)
at Farnham
fleet
fortification programme
struggles with Æthelwold
Tower Type coinage
Edward the Martyr (975–9)
Edwy, king in Wessex (955–9)
Egbert’s Stone
Egil’s Saga
Ely
Emma of Normandy
Englefield, skirmish at (871)
Eorpeburnan, burh
Essex
Eustace of Boulogne
Exeter
Exeter Book
Farnham, Battle of (894)
feuding
Flemings
fortifications
Burghal Hidage
burhs
garrison strength
twin fortifications
Fox, Sir Cyril
Freeman, E.A., scholar
Frisians
Fulford Gate, Battle of (1066)
fyrd see army
gafol (tribute payment)
Gaimar, historian
Gainsborough
gar (spear)
geld see heregeld
geoguð (youthful warrior)
Gerald of Wales, historian
gesiðas (companions)
Gilling Sword, the
Glasbury-on-Wye
Gloucester
Godwin, earl of Wessex
gift to Harthacnut
struggles with King Edward the Confessor
trial
Goltho, Lincolnshire
Greenwich
Gruffydd ap Llewelyn, king of Gwynedd and Powys
struggles with Earl Harold
Guildford
Guthfrithson, Olaf
Guthrum the Dane
baptised as Athelstan
treaty with Alfred
Guy, count of Ponthieu
Gyrth Godwinson
Hæsten, Danish leader
Hakon Godwinson, hostage
Halfdan, son of Ragnar Lothbrok
Halsall, Guy
Hampshire
Hardrada, Harald, king of Norway see Sigurdsson
Harefoot, Harold, king of England (1036–40)
Harold II Godwinson (1066)
at Hastings ‘Fighting Man’ Standard
at Stamford Bridge oath taking
Welsh campaigns
Harthacnut, king of England (1040–2)
Hastings as supplier of vessels
Hastings, Battle of (1066)
malfosse incident
Heimskringla see Sturluson, Snorri
helmets
Benty Grange Helmet
Coppergate Helmet
crested tradition
Pioneer Helmet
spangenhelm tradition
Staffordshire hoard cheek piece
Sutton Hoo Helmet
Henry of Huntingdon
Hereford
Battle of
heregeld (army tax)
herepaths see roads
heriots
Hertford
Hill, Professor David
Hollister, Warren
Holme, Battle of
Holy River, Battle of (1026)
Holy Roman Empire
horns
horses
Anglo-Saxon usage of
horse thegns
legislation
Norman usage of
terminology for mounted troops
hostages
exchange after Stamford Bridge (1066)
housecarls
Hugh, Duke of the Franks
Huntingdon
Hythe
as supplier of vessels
Hywel Dda
Icknield Way, the
Ine of Wessex (688–726)
law code (No. 21)
law code (No. 51)
Ingimund, Norse leader
injuries
John of Worcester
John of Salisbury, historian
Jomsvikings
Jomsvikinga Saga
Kennet, River
Kent
Leicester
Leo IV, Pope (847–55)
Leofgar, bishop of Hereford
Leofric, earl of Mercia
Leofwin Godwinson
liðsmen
Liber Eliensis
Life of St Guthlac
Life of St Oswald
Life of St Wilfred
Lincoln
Lindsey, ancient district of
London
seiges at
lordship bonds
Luton
maces
mail armour see armour
Maldon, Battle of (991)
Battle of Maldon (poem)
Maldon, burh
military provision
malfosse, the see Hastings, Battle of
Malmesbury
marching rates
Marlborough
Maxims
mercenaries
Mercian Register
Merton, Battle of (871)
Mervyn of Powys
metsunge (provisioning of mercenaries)
Milton Regis
naval provision see ships
Nennius, historian
Norfolk
Northampton
Northey Island
Norwich
Nottingham
Offa, king of Mercia (757–96)
Offa’s Dyke
Olaf’s Saga
Ordericus Vitalis
Oswaldslow (shipsoke)
Oxford
Pallig, Danish mercenary
Pevensey
Poole Harbour, Dorset
Ralph, Norman Earl of Herefordshire
Reading
Rectitudines Singularum Personarum
Repton, Derbyshire
Repton Rider, the
Rhuddlan
Riccall
roads
ancient track ways
herepaths
Roman roads
Robert of Jumièges
Rochester
Romney
as supplier of vessels
Ruin, The
Salisbury
Sallust, Roman writer
Sandwich, Kent
Saucourt, Battle of (881)
Saxo Grammaticus
seaxes
decoration
scabbards/sheaths
typologies
Severn, River
Sherston, Battle of (1016)
shields
decoration
forms
provision for on campaign
ships
Alfredian reforms
askrs (Viking warships)
fighting styles
naval organisation
scegð (Anglo-Saxon vessel)
shipfyrd
shipscot
shipsokes
Shoebury
Siddorn, Kim
sieges
Buttington
Chester
London
Rochester
Sigurdsson, Harald, king of Norway
Sihtricson, Olaf
Simeon of Durham
Siward, earl of Northumbria
slings
soke
Somerset
Southampton
Southwark
spears
damage
punishment for misuse
terminology
socket or ferrule features
‘wings’
Staffordshire hoard, the
Stamford, Lincolnshire
Stamford Bridge, Battle of (1066)
standards
Stigand, archbishop
stratagems
strategy
Strathclyde, kingdom
Streona, Eadric
Sturluson, Snorri
Heimskringla
Suffolk
Surrey
Sutton Hoo
Swanage
Swein, king of Denmark
Swein Godwinson
swords
differences in later period from earlier types
fighting/handling qualities
fullers
hilt forms
in wills and heriots
inscribed blades
pattern welding
Petersen’s typology
value
Tacitus, Roman historian
tactics
Tadcaster
Tamworth
Tanshelf
Tempsford
tents
Tetbury, confrontation at (1051)
Tettenhall, Battle of (910)
Thames, River
Thetford
Thietmar of Merseburg, historian
Thorkell the Tall, Dane
Thorney Island
Three Fragments (Annals of Ireland)
Thurbrand the Hold
Tostig Godwinson
tot sites
Towcester
training of warriors
Trent, Battle of (679)
Tryggvason, Olaf
Uhtred, earl of Northumbria
Ulfcytel Snilling of East Anglia
Varangian Guard
Wace, Robert
Wallingford
Wanderer, The
Wansdyke
Wareham
Warwick
Watling Street
Wayland’s Smithy
Wedmore, Treaty of
Wednesdfield see Tettenhall, Battle of
Weymouth (burial pit)
Wheeler, Mortimer
Wigingamere
William, Duke of Normandy and king of England (1066–87) at Hastings
William of Jumièges
William of Malmesbury
William of Poitiers
on Hastings
wills see heriots
Wilton
Wilton, Battle of (871)
Wiltshire
Wimbourne, royal centre
Winchester
Witham
Worcester
Wroughton
Wulfnoth Godwinson
Wulfnoth, South Saxon nobleman
Yatesbury Lane
York