treaty with Charles VI of France (1420), ref 1
Henry VI, King: peaceful nature, ref 1, ref 2
ratifies Magna Carta, ref 1
infancy at father’s death, ref 1, ref 2
minority, ref 1, ref 2
crowned as king of England and of France while boy, ref 1
character and appearance, ref 1, ref 2
piety, ref 1
seeks peace in war with France, ref 1
French demand renunciation of claim to crown, ref 1
marriage, ref 1, ref 2
bestows honours, ref 1
weak rule, ref 1, ref 2
loses Normandy to Charles VII, ref 1
debts, ref 1
and Jack Cade rebellion, ref 1
suffers stroke, ref 1
and York–Somerset enmity, ref 1
treatment and partial recovery, ref 1
wounded at St Albans, ref 1
suffers further malady, ref 1
in Wars of the Roses, ref 1, ref 2
captured at Northampton, ref 1
position challenged by York, ref 1
rescued at second battle of St Albans, ref 1
and crowning of Edward IV, ref 1
flees to Scotland, ref 1, ref 2
imprisoned in Tower, ref 1
released and reinstated, ref 1
Edward IV reconfines to Tower, ref 1
killed in Tower, ref 1, ref 2
marks out site of tomb, ref 1
Henry VII idealizes, ref 1
Henry VI, King of Germany, ref 1
Henry VII (Tudor), King (earlier Earl of Richmond): and murder of Princes in the Tower, ref 1
background, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
rebels against Richard III, ref 1, ref 2
in Brittany, ref 1
marriage to Elizabeth, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
claim to throne, ref 1, ref 2
invades (1485), ref 1
defeats Richard at Bosworth Field, ref 1
appearance and character, ref 1, ref 2
coronation, ref 1
royal bodyguard (yeomen), ref 1
rule, ref 1, ref 2
Yorkist opposition to, ref 1
and Lambert Simnel conspiracy, ref 1
son Arthur born, ref 1
victory at East Stoke (1487), ref 1
financial stringency, ref 1, ref 2
supports Brittany against France, ref 1
and Perkin Warbeck conspiracy, ref 1, ref 2
health decline, ref 1, ref 2
piety and superstiousness, ref 1
remains unmarried after death of Elizabeth, ref 1
death, ref 1, ref 2
encourages overseas trade, ref 1
court, ref 1
isolation, ref 1, ref 2
reputation, ref 1, ref 2
Henry VIII, King: authority, ref 1
marriage to Catherine of Aragon, ref 1
legacy from father, ref 1
Henry, Bishop of Winchester, ref 1
Henry of Huntingdon, ref 1
Henry the Younger (Henry II’s son): crowned as ‘joint king’, ref 1, ref 2
death, ref 1
heraldry, ref 1
herbs: medicinal, ref 1
Hereford, Henry Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of see Henry IV, King
heresy, ref 1, ref 2
Hereward the Wake, ref 1
hierarchies (social): prehistoric, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
under Romans, ref 1
Anglo-Saxon, ref 1
medieval, ref 1
development, ref 1
survival, ref 1
in towns, ref 1
see also class (social)
Higden, Ranulf, ref 1, ref 2
Polychronicon, ref 1, ref 2
highway robbery, ref 1
hill forts, ref 1, ref 2
history: nature of, ref 1
Hoccleve, Thomas, ref 1
Holinshed, Raphael, ref 1
Homer: Iliad, ref 1
Honorius, Roman Emperor, ref 1
horse: as means of travel, ref 1
Hospitallers, Order of, ref 1
hospitals, ref 1, ref 2
houses: medieval design and construction, ref 1
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, ref 1, ref 2
Hugh de Neville, ref 1
Hull: brick wall, ref 1
wool exporters, ref 1
human sacrifice: in Iron Age, ref 1
humour: medieval, ref 1
humours, four, ref 1
Hundred Years War (1337): conduct and campaigns, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
origins, ref 1
and English claim to French sovereignty, ref 1
resumes under Henry V, ref 1, ref 2
continues, ref 1, ref 2
ends, ref 1
hundreds (administrative units), ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
hunting: by kings, ref 1
Iceni (tribe), ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Icknield Way (track), ref 1, ref 2
illness and ailments, ref 1
imports: luxury goods in fifteenth century, ref 1
industry: in fifteenth century, ref 1
Inglewood, Cumbria, ref 1
Innocent III, Pope, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
inns: roadside, ref 1
inns of court, ref 1
Ireland: raiders against Vortigern, ref 1
Richard II in, ref 1
Warbeck in, ref 1
iron: as new technology, ref 1
under Romans, ref 1
demand in fifteenth century, ref 1
Iron Age: development, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
religion, ref 1, ref 2
art, ref 1
Isabella of Angoulême, Queen of King John, ref 1, ref 2
Isabella of France, Queen of Edward II, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Isabella of France, second Queen of Richard II, ref 1
Isabella, wife of Emperor Frederick II, ref 1
Jack Straw’s Castle, Hampstead Heath, ref 1
Jacquerie (France), ref 1
James IV, King of Scotland: shelters Perkin Warbeck, ref 1
marries Margaret Tudor, ref 1
James of St George, Master, ref 1
Jarrow, ref 1
jewellery: Bronze Age, ref 1
Jews: Edward I represses and expels, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
early settlement and legal status in England, ref 1
as moneylenders and moneychangers, ref 1
popular hostility to, ref 1
accused of ritual murder of Christian children, ref 1
census (1239), ref 1
Joan of Arc, ref 1
Joanna of Castile: Henry VII courts, ref 1
John II, King of France, ref 1
John of Arderne, ref 1
John, King: kingship, ref 1
as ‘Lackland’, ref 1
nominated as king of Ireland, ref 1, ref 2
and succession to Henry II, ref 1
barons’ rebellion against, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Richard pardons on return, ref 1
swears fealty to Philip II of France and usurps Richard’s throne, ref 1
reputation and character, ref 1, ref 2
succeeds Richard, ref 1
