| ( 1392-1447), 261, 272 |
| Visconti, Giangaleazzo, ruler of Milan ( 1351-1402), 257, 258 |
| Visconti family of Milan, 257, 258 |
| Visigoths, 2 - 5, 36 | conversion to Arianism, 40 | | see also under Spain |
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| Viterbo, 219 |
| Vittorino da Feltre ( 1378-1446), 273 |
| Vivarium, monastery at, 43 |
| Vouillé, battle at (507), 5 |
| Waldensians, 187, 189 |
| Wales, 63, 79, 283, 294 |
| Walter Sans Avoir (fl.1096), 202 |
| war, 78 -9, 80, 117 -19, 128, 294, 299 - 300 | cost of, 301 -2 | | Fehde, 294 | | 'Holy War', 189, 202 ; see also crusades | | Truce of God, 128, 184 | | see also armies; arms and armour |
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| 'Wars of the Roses', 294 |
| Waterford, Viking settlement, 105 |
| Welf, duke of Bavaria (d. 1101), 145 |
| Welf VI, duke of Spoleto (d. 1191), 147 |
| Welf family, 110, 112 -13 |
| Wells cathedral, 327 |
| Wenceslaus, St, duke of Bohemia (d. 929), 137 |
| Wends, Bohemian tribe, 86 -7 |
| Wessex, 107 Viking attacks on, 102 |
| Westminster, royal court at, 279 |
| Westphalia, 294, 313 |
| Weyden, Roger Van der (d. 1464), 317 |
| Whitby, Synod of ( 664), 73 |
| Wihtberht (fl.c.700), 73 -4 |
| Wilfrid, St, bishop of York (c. 634-709), 72 |
| William VIII, count of Montpellier (d. 1202), 189 |
| William V, duke of Aquitaine (d. 1030), 154 |
| William I, duke of Normandy and king of England (c. 1027-1087), 115, 150, 157 |
| William I, king of Sicily (d. 1166), 200 |
| William II, king of Sicily (d. 1189), 201 |
| William of Tyre ( historian) (c. 1130-87), 205 |
| Willibrord, bishop of Utrecht (c. 658-739), 74 |
| Windsor, St George's Chapel, 321 |
| Wipo, historian (d. after 1046), 176 |
| Wittelsbach family, 149 |
| Wladislaw II, king of Bohemia (d. 1173), 162 |
| woman, status of, 47 |
| Worms: | Concordat of ( 1122), 133 -4, 146 | | Diet of ( 1076), 133 |
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| Wratislaw II, king of Bohemia (d. 1092), 162 |
| Wuffinga dynasty (East Anglia), 84 |
| Württemberg, 313 |
| Würzburg, Diet of ( 1196), 149 |
| Wycliffe, John (c. 1330-84), 310, 312, 328 |
| Ximenes de Rada, Rodrigo, archbishop of Toledo (d. 1247), 194 |
| Yeavering, palace of, 63 |
| York: |
| York, house of, 278, 282, 294 |
| Zacharias, pope (d. 752), 93 |
| Zangi ( 1087-1146), 209 |
| Žižka, John (d. 1424), 311 |
| Zwolle, publishing house, 313 |