council of 74
Cleve, count of 204
Cleveland 217
cloth industry 230
Cluny abbey 40
court of the prior of 76
Odilo, abbot of 73
Cnut, king of England, laws of 29, 30, 80
coinage 95, 97, 228, 230, 255, 259, 273–6
Coke, Sir Edward, speaker of the House of
Commons and chief justice of England
154, 304, 333–8
Collingwood, R. G. 6
Cologne 102
archbishopric of 94, 95
Siwinus, archbishop of 86
commissaries 137
common:
good, profit, utility, weal v, 75, 169,
192–3, 198, 200, 227, 237, 240, 252,
257–263, 275, 278, 284–5, 297–9
law 34, 63, 86, 130–31, 141, 182, 208,
216, 257, 299, 306, 331, 333, 336
liberty of the realm 140
pleas, court of 138–9, 172, 182, 235,
257, 265
right 159, 221
commons in English parliament 185–6, 226,
230–2, 239, 246–7, 249, 256, 265, 267,
268–71, 297, 299–303, 314, 328, 332,
334–5, 339
petitions of 189–90
rebel peasants claim to be the ‘true
commons’ 264
speaker of 256, 330–31
commonwealth 4, 37–8, 84–6, 89, 100,
221, 284–5, 305, 312
body of the 330
Christian 82
English 315–6
and free state 297, 327–335
see also state
communal:
assent 200–1
liberties and privileges 112, 169
violence 157
communes 55–60, 72–3, 85, 112, 115–16,
126, 207, 221, 232
communities 14, 112, 159, 173, 189
local 44
Swiss 105
community:
of England, lords claim to be 188
of the realm 158, 177–8, 186, 188–9, 253
Commynes, Philippe de 286, 300–301
compensation for injury 10, 23, 27, 57, 59,
67, 91
compensum pacis 76
Compiègne 41, 62, 112, 121
burgesses of 161
complaints (plancturia,querelae,
querimonie) 11, 98–9, 109–23,
147–58, 160–3, 172, 178, 180–3,
187–8, 243, 247, 249
compurgation 59
conductus 95
Conrad II, emperor 84, 203, 222
Conrad III, emperor 87–91, 95, 113
conscience, see chancery
conspiracies, confederacies 71–2, 81,
105–7, 141, 162, 241, 247–9
Constantine, emperor 12, 193
constitutions 96, 198
de feudis84–5
pacis 96
see also Clarendon; Melfi
consuetudines, see customs
consuetudo Anglie, English law as 195–6,
208
consultations, statute of 188
contracts, covenants 182, 187–8
Corbeil 54
Corbie 56, 64, 72
Adalhard, abbot of 72
church of Saint-Pierre of 212
commune of 64
coronation oath 144, 256
coroners 136, 187
Corpus Iuris Civilis8, 84
corvées 48
Corvey, abbey 40
Wibald, abbot of 90–91
Cotentin, bailliageof 118
Coucy:
Aubri de 62
Enguerrand de, trial of 162
council:
king’s 22, 162, 164, 169, 170–3, 175,
180–1, 184–6, 191, 301
of state 320
see also great council
councils of the church, see Caen; Lateran;
Lillebonne
counts 12, 14, 16–24, 33–7, 45–50, 77, 93,
145
of the palace 19, 21
county (comitatus) 24, 94, 95
see also justiciars; shires
coup d’état 326
Courtenay, Pierre de 121
court coram rege, seeking’s bench
courts 21, 26, 28, 33, 107, 170, 182, 185,
188, 211, 309, 330
of counts 55Index 373