( 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
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
Celts, 76
law, 77
'Welsh', 64
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
'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
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:
'Eoforwic', 84
see of, 73
Vikings in, 102, 104, 105
York, house of, 278, 282, 294
Zacharias, pope (d. 752), 93
Zangi ( 1087-1146), 209
Žižka, John (d. 1424), 311
Zwolle, publishing house, 313

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