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‘A’isha, 435
Aisne, battle of the, 208 Aistulf, King of the Lombards, 454 Aix-la-Chapelle, burnt by Danes, 59; eap^red by Lotbair, 80, 207 assemblies at (S14) 3; 2; (817) 6, 9%qq.; (831) 15sq.; (836)20; (837)21; (860)39; (861)40,42; Judith at, 14; 19, 25, 28, 52, 68; Otto I crowned at, 187 sq.; 195 Otto II crowned at, 201, 204; Otto III crowned at, 209; Otto III buried at, 214, 216; Henry acknowledged at, 218; Dukes of Lorraine
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Henry III crowned at, 257 269, 273, 287; 275, 278; Godfrey of Lorraine deposed at, 286 ; Godfrey of Lorraine Henry IV crowned at, • restored at, 289 298; Charlemagne’s brazen eagle at, 207 note his palatine church at, 557, 560 sqq. 567 his tomb at, 213 sq. bronzes at, -559 Theodoric’s statue at, 522 ‘A^bat-al-bakar, battle of, 427 Alan Fergent, Duke of Brittany, 128 Alanje, 421 Albano, Bishop of. See Richard Albdann. See Halfdanr. Alberada, ancestress of Agnes of Poitou, 283 note 2 Alberic, Marquess of Spoleto, 151 sq., 153 sq. Alberic, Senator of the Romans, rules in Rome, 154 sq.; opposes Otto I, 159 ; death of, 161; 166, 168, 171, 178, 455 Albert I, Count of Vermandois, 83 Albizo, aids Aribert of Milan’s escape, 266 Albrand, Archbishop of Bremen, 305 Alohfrid, son of Oswy, 555 Alcuin, 514 sq., 520; works of, 516; letters of, 343, 515; opposes Adoptionism, 523, 532; and images, 533 488, 514 sqq., 520, 556 Alda, wife of Alberic of Rome, 155 Aldfrid, King of Northumbria, 493, 510 note Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, 488, 493 sq., 499, 510 sqq., 515, 524 Aldhun, Bishop of Durham, 560 Aldric, Bishop of Le Mans, 18 Alemannia, given to Charles the Bald, 13, 16 invaded, 16; 21 given to Charles the Fat, 51; ravaged by Hungarians, 69; 134; counts of, see Conrad, Henry see also Swabia Aleram, Count, 157 Aleramids, the, 240, 244, 264 Alet, 128 Alexander, St, translation of, 533 Alexander the Great, letters to Dindimus, 516 romance of, 528 letter to Aristotle, 535 Alexander III, Pope, 399 Alexandria architectural influence of, 539, 541 sq., 549, 551, 558, 566; Convent of St Menas near, 547 ivory carving of, 548, 550, 555 painting and decoration of, 549sq., 558sq. learning at, 486 Bedouins at, 415; patriarch of, see Eulogius Alfonso I, the Catholic, King of the Asturias, » 410, 420 » submit
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Alfonso HI, King of Leon, 420 Alfonso IV, King of Leon, 421 Alfonso V, King of Leon, 427 sq. Alfred, King of Wessex, 348; visits Leo IV, 349; at battle of -Vshdown, 352 accession of, 352 wars with Guthrum, 183, 319, 329, 355 sq. 358; reforms in Wessex, 357 sq.; “Ijfred and Guthrum ’s Peace,” 359, 361; builds Athelney church, 560; death of, 360; will of cited, 345 memorial literary work of, minster to, 361, 373 535, 537 revival of learning under, 514 Asser’s life of, 534 house of, 399 323 338; 404; 488 murdered, Alfred, son of Aethelred, 386 389 sq.; 393
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Algarve. See Ocsonoba Algeciras, 416 Algiers, 421 Alhandega, battle Ali, 413 ‘Alkama, 410
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Aller, Guthrum baptised at, 356 Allstedt, Italian envoys at, 246 ; 249 Alluyes, rebellion of lord of, 119 Al-Makkari, cited, 432 _
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Abnaiizor (Mahomet ibn Abi-‘Amir), vizier in Spain, 424; invades Leon, 425 sq.; 427; 428; reorganises the army, 431 death of, 426; 435 Almeria, 422, 431 sq. Almunecar, 411 Aloara, wife of Paldolf Ironhead, 170 sq. Alost, district of, and Flanders, 122 Alpais, daughter of Louis I, 3 Alpert, chronicler, 142 note Alphege. See Aelfheah Alphonse-Jourdain, Count of Toulouse, 130 Saracens in, 152, 155; Alps, the, 11, 20 sq. 161; Saracens driven from, 168; Otto I crosses, 194 sq. 240, 264 sq. Alric, Bishop of .sti, 246 Alsace, given to Charles the Bald, 13; 18; given to Louis the German, 18 invaded surrendered by by Hungarians, 69, 87 Rodolph I of Burgundy, 135 invaded by Ernest of ^wabia, 257 counts of, see Gerard Altaich, abbey, 236; annals of, 295, 3(M; abbot of, see Godehard Alt-Bunzlau, murder of Wenceslas at, 192 Altitonantis land-bojk, 377 Altsig of York, 522 Altus prosator, hymn, 502, 506 Alvaro, 416 sq. 438
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Amboise, lords of. Siee Hugh, Sulj)ieius Ambrieres, siege of, 119
Amhlaeibh. See Olaf the White AmieuoiS, the, 16 Amiens, captured by Vjiringl, 59 sq., ft, 8^ treaty of, 57 MSS. at, 521 Anfmianus Marcellinus, History m, 5(^8 ; 520
