Etsi de statu, papal bull 239
Eugenius III, pope 87, 88, 91
Evesham:
abbot of 131, 209
battle of 160, 174, 176
Évreux 122, 124
bishop of 163–4
excommunication 125–6, 128, 137, 141–4,
169, 270, 249
exchequer, financial department and court
138, 140–1, 171–2, 178, 180, 182, 257,
265, 267, 334
rolls of 129–30, 139
exile as punishment 73–5, 93, 105, 137
eyre ad omnia placita 244
articles or chapters of 136, 152–3, 155,
246
justices on 133–4, 139–40, 154, 171, 175,
178–80, 184, 187, 214–15, 244, 247
rolls of 179, 184
Falaise 56, 58, 60, 115, 122
hospital of St John at 65
provost of 157
fairs, seemarkets
faith, trust , breach of 137, 182
false claim, amercement for 122
Fawkes de Breauté 153, 155
Fécamp 56
felony, felons 135, 137, 153, 245, 248, 250
see also appeal; crimes
Ferguson, Adam 6
feud, seebloodfeud
feudalism, feudal law 42–8, 84, 102, 109,
123, 126–9, 131, 154, 165, 198, 203,
233–4, 238
Libri Feudorum 84
fiefs, fees 45–6, 49, 54, 66, 84, 89, 93, 123,
131, 167, 198, 203–4, 209–10, 233–4
de reprise 204
fee simple 209–210, 234
German 205
Figon, Charles de 320
fines as penalties 10, 27, 36, 56, 91, 93,
112, 116, 124, 128, 139, 151, 153,
162, 185, 241, 249–50
Fiore, Joachim of 8
Fitzgerald, Maurice, justiciar of Ireland 144
Five Boroughs 29
Flanders 50, 240, 275
count of 77, 115, 123, 168
peace of the count of 77
wine dealers of 63
Fleta 170
Fleury, abbot of 111
Florence of Worcester, chronicler 212
Florentine merchants 142
Foliot, Richard, undersheriff of Oxfordshire
153
folkright 28
Fontaines, Pierre des 164
Fontevrault, nuns of 54
force 32, 242
see also violence
foresters 156, 165
forest 83, 121
assize of 135
charter 139, 178
law 141
forms of action, seewrits
Formulae, formularies 13, 15, 24, 98, 194
Imperiales15, 20
Fortescue, Sir John, chief justice and
chancellor of England 299–301, 336
France 98, 109, 275–6
ancient constitution of 316
Capetian kings of 109
complaints and inquests in 155
constable of 166
constitution of, compared unfavourably
with England’s 301
government of 276–7
Île de 43, 60, 61, 275
institutions of 291–4
laws of 325
monarchical state of 277–294
people of 276
provinces of 286, 288
twelve peers of 276
see also body politic; estates; king;
Machiavelli
franchises 175, 185, 214–15, 218
see also liberties
Francia 31
Francis I, king of France 287, 292
Franciscan friars as inquisitors 148
Franconia, Landfriede for 94, 101
Frankfurt 96, 103, 106
Frankish:
Gaul 10–11, 35
law 35, 38, 253
monarchy 31
royal palace 21
see also capitularies
frankmarriage 214
frankpledge system 81
fraud 32, 39, 242
Frederick I ‘Barbarossa’, emperor 88–95,
113, 128, 129, 201, 206, 211, 221
Landfriedenof 128–30
Frederick II, emperor 95–9, 101, 144
Constitutio pacisof 160
freedom:
personal 17, 20, 36, 211, 216–18376 Index