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Index
698
f WaJld n, CaMph of Damascus, 411 Wallers,
Northmen
victorious at, 72,
85^
Wallin^ord, 357 Walo, Bishop of Metz, 59 Walpert, Archbishop of Milan, 160
- Walsleben, captured by Wends, 184
Walter, elected to see of Besan^on, 141 Walter, Bishop of Spires, 241 Walter, Archbishop of Sens, 71, 74 sq. Waltheof of Bamborough, 383 Waltheof, 396 made Earl of Ncuthamptonshire and Huntingdonshire, 398 sq. Waltherd, Pffl^ost of Magdeburg, 232, 239 Wamba, Kin§ of the Visigoths, 493 Wantage, 338; 352 Wareham, 357 captured by Vikings, 3-55 Knut lands at, 384 WtBin, Count of Macon, 14, 24 Warmund, Bishop of Ivrea, 220 Warte, river, and the Poles, 222 Warwick, fortified, 363 Warwickshire, 337, 384, 406 Watchet, 357 Waterford, Norse in, 317; Danes in, 334 Watling Street, 319, 337, 354, 359, 368, 383, 405 Wazo, Bishop of Liege, canonist, 290; preserves peace between France and Germany, 292, and sack of Verdun, and siege of Li^ge, 293 death of, 294
Wearmouth, Vikings
raid, 341; library at, 511; abbot of, see Benedict Bisoop Wedmore, 356 Peace of, 319, 356
Weimar, Count of. See William Weland, the Viking, 40 Welf, house of, 35, 56; in Burgundy, 134, 247
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Welf, Count, 13 Welf, Count, 256 sqq. Welf. Count, made Duke of Carinthia, 292, 299 Welland, river. 354 sq., 380 Wells, see of, 362 ; bishop of, see Duduco canons of, 379 Weuceslas, St, Duke of Bohemia, 184 murder of, 192 Wends, the, Saxony ravaged by, 182, 184 sq., 191 sq. defeat of, 200 sq^. ; revolt of, 2®3 sq.; war with Otto III, 211 sq.; ally witlfelfenry II, 226 sq., 228; in Bamberg district, 237 ; rising of 249 262; see also Dalemintzi, Lusatisuis, Lyutitzi, Obotrites, Eedarii, Soros, Ukrani, Wiltzi and Slavs Wenilo. See Ganelon
,
Weoxtan,r>44 Werben, tidalrich of Bohemia dowsed at, • „ 262 fortress of, 262 • vVerden, abbot of, 206 Werfrith,' Sishop oj Viorcester, 356, 358 Werinbert, 530 ( Werla, fmtressof Henry lat, 182 ; assemblies ' fit, 21C, 255 , Werner, Count of Kiburg, 257 sq. , 270 • Werner, Bishop of Straibourg, 260
,
kingdom
•Wessex,
340 sq. ; rivalry with Mercia, 344 sqq.; subdues Cornwall, 344 sq.; subdues Kent, 345 sq.; struggles with Vikings, 319, 348,350, 352 sqq., 358; partitioned, 349sq.; freetyrom the Danes, 356; subjection o^Ierciato, 356, 360; 3^; reformed by Alfred, 357 new sees erecred in,361 progress against theDanes, 362 sqq law and institutions, 362, 366 sq., 369; of,
.
Eadwig
in, 372; Knut in, 384; retained by Edmund, 386; society in, 401, 404 sq.;
kings of, see Aethelbald, Aethelbert, Aethehred, Aethelstan, Aethelwulf, Alfred, Beorhtric, Eadred, Ecgbert, Edmund,
Edward, Ine earls of, Wessex, earldom of, 387, 397 see Godwin, Harold Westbury-on-Trym, monastery at, 374 Westema, 363, 365 Western Islands (SuSreyjar), see Hebrides; kings of, see Gu^roSr, Ketill, Maccus Western Kingdom, the, 28, 31 sq., 35 Louis
the
German invades
(858), 36;
Lorraine
added to, 45 see also France West Franks, the; see France Westminster, Abbey of, 374, 399, 545, 560 sqq. Westmorland, Norse settlements in, 326; Scandinavian influence in, 335, 337 West Saxon Chronicle, cited, 350, 352, 354 Wettin, Count of. See Dietrich Wexford, Viking fleet in (820), 316; Danes in, 334 Wherwell, nunnery of, 394 sq. Whitby, synod of, 342 Whithem, bishopric of, 341 WhitweU, 368 Wichlawa, 377 Wichmann, Abbot of Ramsey, 263
Wichmaim, brother
of
Herman, Duke
of
of
Herman, Duke
of
Saxony, 187 sq.
Wichmann, nephew
Saxony, raises rebellion among the Wends, 200; defeated and slain, 202 Wick, conquered by the Danes, 380 Widger, Archbishop of Ravenna, trial of, 290 Widukind, Saxon hero, in Denmark, 312; invades Saxony, 413 of Corvey, Saxon historian, 534, cited, 183 note, 184, 186, 187 note, 190 sq.,
Widukind
201, 203
Wienerwald and the East March
(Austria),
the, 208, 281 I, Count of Barcelona, 428, 441 Wigbert, Bishop of Merseburg, 235 Wight, Isle of, Danes in, 382 reWiglaf, King of Mercia, exiled, 346 stored, 346 Wihomarch, Breton leader, 9 Wikfried, Archbishop of Cologne, 187, 199 Wilfrid, St, Bishop of Tori;,,553, 556, 560 Willa, wife of Berengar H, 157, 159, 162; exile and death of, 163 Willi^pi I (th e Conqueror) King of England,
Wifred
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