Berkeley, Sir Robert 334
Berne 106
Berry 149, 283
Bersuire, Pierre 278
Berwick 221
Béthisy 112
Béziers, Raymond Trenceval, vicomte of
156
bien commun, see common good
Bigod, Hugh, justiciar of England 158–9
bill revolution 160–70, 181, 185
bills 99, 178–9, 182, 247, 249
in eyre 180, 184
in parliament 179–81, 183, 189–90
‘true’ 189, 245
bishops 13, 22, 43, 84, 137, 166
election of 39
exercising jurisdiction 29, 37, 92
and peace movement 69–78
bishopric (episcopatus)24
black death 226–7
blasphemy 125
Blois 54, 168, 290
Stephen, count of 76
Thibaut, count of 118
bloodfeud 22, 33, 37, 93–4, 97, 105, 198,
240
Bodin, Jean, jurist 316–21, 327–8, 337
body politic (chose publique,corps de
policie) 229, 253, 255, 271–79, 287–8,
293, 301, 303, 313, 330–1, 336
Bohemia 107
king of, as an elector 106
Boleyn, Queen Anne 307, 312
Bolingbroke, Henry, earl of Derby and later
Henry IV, king of England 268, 270
bondmen, seeserfs
Boniface VIII, pope 232, 239, 261–2
booking of land 14
see also landbooks
Bordeaux:
archbishop of 69
parlement at167–8, 288
Borgo San Sepulchro, abbot of 89
boroughs, bourgs (burhs,burgi) 27, 47–8,
55–6, 135, 140
liberties and free customs of 217–18
represented in parliament 186
see also communes; courts; towns
Botero, Giovanni 323
Bourbon 283
Bourges 11, 38, 163
Aimo, archbishop of 72–3
bailliageof 118
bourgs, see boroughs
Bourgueil 118
Bracton on the Laws and Customs of
England146, 164, 191, 196, 198–9,
224, 235, 254
Bracton, Henry de 145–6, 191, 199
Brandenburg 103
Breteuil 207
Britton 199
Brittany 274, 283, 294
parlementof 167
Bromsgrove, king’s manor of 183
Bruce, Peter 217
Bruges 78
archdeacon of 161
Bruni, Leonardo 4, 5
Brunner, Heinrich 14
Brunswick, duchy of 103
Otto of 95
Bruyères 57
Buchanan, George 322, 328
burgage, see tenure
burgesses, bourgeoisie64, 112, 116, 122,
128, 198, 222, 285
estate of 226–32
in parliament 174, 176, 185, 189
burhs,burgi, see boroughs
Burgundy 14, 31, 283, 286, 294
dukes of 168, 280–2
parlement of 167
peace in 70–1
Burley:
Simon 266, 269
Walter 262–3, 266
Burton, annals of 154
Bury St Edmunds 23
Samson, abbot of 209
Bussy, Sir John 269
Caboche, Simon 280
Caen 47, 78, 115, 122, 164
bailliageof 118
council of 78
Calais 123, 246
staple of 256
Cambrai 46, 71, 89
Gerard, bishop and count of 71, 73, 82
Camden, William 170
canon law, see law
Canterbury 155
archbishop of 143, 195, 210
abbey of St Augustine’s at 180, 209
convocation of province of 239
gaol of 189
Capet, Hugh, king of France 49, 82
Capetian kings of France 56, 109, 163, 207
capitularies 33, 38
captains, chieftains 93, 101–2, 104, 222,
249, 255, 276
Carcassonne 148, 156, 161Index 371