arms, assize of 135
Arnulfing mayors of the palace 19
Arras 56, 58, 125
Alvise, bishop of 111
Lambert, bishop of 77
commune at 115
arrêts of parlement of Paris 165–6, 168
arson 23, 51, 74–5, 77, 93, 104, 116, 125,
143, 206, 243, 245
Arthur, Prince 118
Artois, count of 164
Arundel, Richard earl of 266, 268–270
Arundel, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury
and chancellor of England 270
assault and battery 10, 91, 98, 241, 243,
248
assizes:
English justices holding 184–5
French baillis holding 114, 119, 122,
149–52, 154, 158, 208
rolls of 119
see also arms; Clarendon; Forest;
Northampton; grand assize; petty
assizes
assumpsit, English legal action 244
Astronomus, biographer of Louis the Pious
44
Athelstan, king of England, laws of 28,
79–80
auditors of complaints and petitions 179–81
Audley, Thomas, chancellor of England
312
Augustus, principate of 259
Aumale, earl of 140
Aurillac:
Gerald abbot of 82
Gerbert of, archbishop of Ravenna and
pope (Sylvester II) 82
Austria, duchy of 95, 100
Albert, duke of 105
Henry Jasomirgott, duke of 95
Landfriedefor 100–101
Autun:
bishop of 63
church of Saint-Symphorien at 65
Auvergne 69, 207
Peter of 262
Auxerre 121
Avignon 274
Avranches:
bailliage of 118
bishop of 67, 204
Aylmer, John, bishop of London 313
bailliages60, 117, 149–50, 154, 165,
167–8, 232, 277
bailiffs, baillis113–4, 116–23, 126, 136,
147, 149–53, 156, 158, 161, 164–7,
169, 172, 179–80, 196, 241, 255, 284,
287, 290–1
see also assizes
Bamberg 84
ban (criminal jurisdiction) 26, 33, 49, 52,
67, 83–4, 94
banleuca59, 61, 115, 118
Bangor, bishop of 221
Bar, count of 168
Barbarian kingdoms 10
laws and customs of 12, 14, 194
Barcelona, count of 205
baronial franchises 171, 180
barons’ war 173–4
basse justice,see justice
Bates’ case 334
Breteuil, Barthelemy de 111
Basin, Thomas, bishop of Lisieux 283–4
Basle 102
Basset, Philip, justiciar of England 173
Bath, Henry of, justice 171–2
Battle abbey 195
liberty of 212, 215
battle, see trial
Baux, Raymond of 90
Bavaria 87, 95
dukes of 202
Landfriedefor 101
Bayeux 47
bailliageof 118
bishop of 68
Beaucaire 148, 157–8
Beaulieu, abbey of 51
Beaumanoir, Philippe de, author of
Coutumes de Beauvaisis53, 56, 57,
164, 165, 191, 198, 200, 224–9, 234,
241–2, 254
Beaumont 163
Beaune 57
Matthew of, bailliof Vermandois 151–2,
161
Beauvais 56, 111, 220
bishop of 63, 71
king’s court at 206
mayor of 64
Bec, abbot of 111
Becket, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury
and chancellor of England 126, 137,
141, 195–6
Bede, Venerable 274
Bellême:
William of 212
castle of 156
bench, see common pleas
benefices 35, 45, 84, 202–4
Bereford, William de, chief justice 235370 Index