claims to be Lord paramount of Scotland;
the claim acknowledged;
invades Scotland;
deposes Balliol and gets himself acknowledged King;
his rage against Wallace;
wins the battle of Falkirk;
cruelty to Wallace;
duped by Philippe IV.;
is distressed for funds;
seizure of ecclesiastical property;
imposes the 'evil toll,';
marriage with Margaret of France;
grants the right of taxation to his subjects;
his vengeance on Abp. Winchelsea;
rage at Bruce's revolt;
his vow against the Scots;
arrives at Carlisle;
cruelty to Bruce's brothers;
his last injunctions and death;
his dread of Gaveston's influence over his son.
Edward II., appointed regent in his father's absence;
ceremony of his knighthood;
his appearance and character;
influence of friends over him;
his inordinate attachment to Piers Gaveston;
neglects his father's injunctions respecting Scotland;
his marriage to Isabel of France;
the nobles demand Gaveston's dismissal;
his coronation;
disputes with his nobles respecting Gaveston;
his expedition against Bruce;
his defeat at Bannockburn;
his attachment to the Despensers;
discontent of his subjects;
his queen's complaints against him;
her invasion of England;
his wanderings and capture;
deposition;
captivity and ill-treatment;
his murder in Berkeley Castle;
his monument in Gloucester Cathedral.
Edward III., his march to the Border;
account of his warfare there;
his narrow escape from Douglas;
causes Mortimer's arrest and execution;
his respectful conduct to Queen Isabel.
Edward the Atheling, his infant son Edgar;
his daughters;
Edward, son of Edmund Ironside;
his marriage;
owned as Etheling.
Edwin, grandson of Earl Leofric;
enemy of Harold;
submits to the conqueror;
and is betrothed to his daughter Matilda;
joins the Camp of Refuge;
is killed in combat.
Eghelemar, Bp. of Elmham.
Eghelsie, Bp. of Selsey.
Eghelwin. Bp. of Durham, joins the Camp of Refuge;
dies in captivity.
Egypt, crusade in, under William Longespee the Elder;
under Louis IX..
Eleanor of Aquitaine, married to Henry II.;
evils resulting from this;
not the murderess of Fair Rosamond;
kept in captivity by her husband;
her dislike to Constance of Brittany;
beseiged at Mirabeau by Prince Arthur;
intercedes for Prince Arthur;
dies of grief at Fontevraud.
Eleanor of Castille, married to Edward I.;
accompanies him to the Holy Land;
sucks the poison from his wounds;
her death;
the crosses erected to her memory.
Eleanor of Provence, married to Henry III.;
vituperative ballads made on her;
her unpopularity;
her spirited conduct in the Barons' war.
Elgiva, William the Conqueror's daughter, representation of,
in the Bayeaux tapestry.
Ely, Isle of, the Camp of Refuge established there.
Emma, daughter of the Count of Paris,
betrothed to Richard the Fearless.
Emma, daughter of Richard the Fearless,
wife of Ethelred the Unready and Knut;
invites her sons to claim the throne of England.
Emperors of the West, their influence on the election of Popes;
deprived of this by the Lateran Council;
their struggle to regain it.
England, effects of the Danish conquest upon;
sad state of,
under William Rufus;
granted to France by Pope Innocent III.;
a fief of Rome;
the laws of,
adhered to by the Norman kings;
ignored by Henry II.,
