all ecclesiastical dignities; his death, in 1274; anecdote of, 249. Author of Scriptural Exposi- tions, Dogmatical and Philo- sophical Treatise, his Summa Theologiæ, his Quæstiones, 250. St. Turketul, the venerable abbot of Croyland, iii. 233. St. Ulric of Augsburg, ii. 216. St. Werberga, iii. 215.
St. Wilfrid, born in Northumbria; his piety and zeal, iii. 209. Intro- duces the order of St. Benedict into England, 210. Consecrated bishop of Lindisfarne, 211. His exile; return of, to Northumbria; obtains successively the bishoprics of Hexham, Lindisfarne, and York, 212. His death; different opinions respecting, 213. St. William of the Desert, founder
of the monastery of Gello, i. 288. St. Willibrod of Northumbria; his missionary labours in Denmark; his death, ii. 194.
St. Withberga, iii. 216.
St. Wulfer, bishop of Sherburn, iii. 234.
St. Wulfram, ii. 194.
St. Wulstan, bishop of Worcester; his answer to a synod at West- minster Abbey, before which he was summoned to deliver up his pastoral staff, iv. 139.
St. Wunibald, ii. 202. Sancho I., king of Navarre, i. 270. Sancho II., king of Navarre; his conquests, i 271.
Sancho III., king of Navarre, as- sassination of, i. 271.
Sancho V., king of Navarre, i. 271.
Sancho VI., king of Navarre,
Sancho II., king of Castile, assas- sination of, i. 262. Sancho III., king of Castile, i. 263. Sancho IV., the brave king of Cas- tile and Leon, i. 267.
Sancho II., sovereign of Portugal, i. 281.
Sancho Mudarra, duke of Gascony, ii. 47.
San Fernando, king of Leon and Castile, canonisation of, in 1671; miracles ascribed to, i. 291. Saracens, invasion of Italy by, i. 23. Their ravages, 110. Sarmatians, ii. 4. Savoy, i. 94.
Saxons, extent of country occupied by, ii. 29. An annual diet held by; their ravages, 30. Laws of, respecting chastity, 138. Inva- sion of Britain by, iii. 5. Seven
kingdoms formed in Britain by, 9, Wars of, with each other, 10. Scala, Antonio delia, i. 67. Scala, Martino della, lord of Ve- rona, i. 106.
Scalao, Della, the Esti of Ferrara, i. 65.
Scot, Michael, iv. 354. Sebastian, bishop of Salamanca, i. 270.
Sergius III., pope, i. 145.
Sforza, Francesco, lord, his brilliant success over the Venetians; in- gratitude of the Milanese to, i. 71. He deserts to the Venetians; he invests Milan; recall of, by the Milanese, 72.
Sforza, Galeazzo, duke of Milan;
his character; his murder, i. 72. Sicard, duke of Lombardy, subdues
Amalfi; assassination of, i. 109. Sicard of Cremona, an historian, i. 251.
Sicard of Lomberes, his convers- ation with the bishop of Albi on Manichæanism, i. 296.
Sicilian Vespers, the, i. 131. Sicilies, the Two, erected into a kingdom, i. 106.
Sierra Leone, discovery of, by the Portuguese, i. 281.
Sigebert, king of the Ripuarii, ii. 9. Sigebert I., king of Austrasia, ii. 12.
Sigebert III., king of Austrasia, ii. 14. Sigebert, king of Austrasia, mar- riage of, with Brunehild; assas- sination of, ii. 13.
Sightric, the Danish king of Nor- thumbria, death of, iii. 25. Sigismund, king of Burgundy, elected emperor of Germany, ii. 115. His persecution of the Hussites, 116.
Sixtus IV., pope, i. 85. Slavi, the, i. 95.
Southey, Mr., an extract from his history of the church, iv. 194. Spain, conquest of, by the Arabs, i. 254. Decline and fall of various Mohammedan. dynasties and principalities of, 256. The Mo- hammedans expelled from, 258. State of, under the Moham- medans, 259.
Stagyrite, the condemnation of, by the bishop of St. Maur, ii. 307. States general, origin of, ii. 88. Stefano Porcari, i. 174.
Stephen, count of Boulogne, usurps the throne of England, iii. 88. Acknowledges Henry Plantage- net his successor; his death, 89. Stephen III, pope, i. 143.
Stephen IX., pope, i. 148. Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury, iv. 136. His simony; his depo- sition, 137.
Sussex, the Saxon kingdom of, founded in 477, iii. 7. Swabians, ii. 3.
Sweyn, king of Denmark, invades England, iii. 33. His second in- vasion, 34. His death, 35. Switzerland, ii. 120.
Syagrius, a Roman governor, defeat and death of, ii. 7.
Tancred of Hauteville, i. 112. Tancred, count of Lucca, usurps the crown of the Sicilies; his death, i. 120.
Tarik ben Zeyad, i. 258. Tassilo, duke of Bavaria, found guilty and condemned to death by the diet of Ingelheim, for fa- vouring the revolt of the Saxons; his sentence commuted, ii. 31. Templars, the Knights,abolishment of the order of, ii. 77.
Theodora and Marozia, two patri- cian ladies, their depravity; in- fluence of, in the election of popes, i. 145.
Theodulf, bishop of Orleans, ii. 254. Theudebert, king of Austrasia, ii. 14.
Thibault I., count of Champagne,
elected king of Navarre, i. 272. Thibault II., king of Navarre, i. 272.
Thibault, count of Champagne and Brie, ii. 57.
Thierry, co-heir of the monarchy of France and Burgundy, ii. 10. Thierry I., duke of Lorraine, ii. 49. Thierry II., king of Burgundy, ii. 14.
Thierry III., king of Burgundy and Neustria, ii. 15.
Thoulouse, the third canon of the council of, held in 1118, i. 299. Thuringians, ii. 10.
Tiberius, extract from the manu- script of, iv. 127.
Tiepolo, Giacomo, doge of Venice, i. 102.
Torketul, the chancellor, iii. 28. Torkil, a Danish chief, iii. 34. Tortona, reduction of, by Fre- deric I.; rebuilt, i. 36. Totila, king of the Lombards, visit of, to St. Benedict, i. 184. Tourneys, commencement of, ii. 64. Towton, the battle of, iii. 141. Troyes, the treaty of, ii. 84.
Venice, origin, and early history of, i. 95. Peculiar constitution of; despotism of the doges, 97. The council of pregadi, 98. grand council of 480 becomes hereditary, 99. Change in the council of pregadi; the famous collection of ducal obligations, 100. Dissatisfaction of the Ve- netians and the doge at the usurp ation of the grand council, 101. Insurrection in, in 1310; form- ation of the council of ten, 103. Government of; aggrandisement of, 106. Becomes subject to Aus- tria, 108.
Venantius Fortunatus, an Italian poet, his Vita S. Martini, i. 230. Víctor II., pope, i. 148.
Victor III., pope, i. 38.
Vigila, the monk, his account of the origin of the kingdom of Na- varre, i. 270.
Vortigern, supreme sovereign of Britain at the time of the Saxon invasion, iii. 5.
Wace, Robert, a native of Jersey, born about the year 1124, author of the Roman de Brut (Brutus), iv. 321. His legend relating to
Wearmouth, the monastery of, founded by St. Benedict, bishop in 674, iii. 194.
Wenceslas, emperor of Germany; his deposition, ii. 115. Erects Milan into a duchy, to remain hereditary in the family of the Visconti, 116. Westphalians, ii. 30.
Wickliffe, John, born near Rich- mond, in Yorkshire; becomes master of Baliol college, Oxford, iv. 267. His disputes with the warden and fellows of Catherine's hall, 268. He is expelled; he attacks the possessions of the clergy, 269. His doctrines con- demned by a synod in London his opinion of the Eucharist, 271. His death, 272. His doctrines,
273. Wiffredo IL, sovereign count of Barcelona, i. 275.
William I., the Bad, king of the Two Sicilies, excommunication of; reconciliation of, with the pope; his crimes, i. 118. Foreign policy of, 119.
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