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annexed by Charles the Great, 356.

Begga, daughter of Pippin the Elder, 178.

Belisarius, early history of, 70;

• governor of Daras, 69;
• defeats Persians, 69;
• leads troops against ‘Nika’ rebellion, 73;
• conquers Vandals, 76-78;
• his triumph and consulship, 79;
• conquers Ostrogoths, 81-88;
• refuses Gothic crown, 87;
• recalled by Justinian, 88;
• second Persian war, 93;
• disgraced, 95;
• commands again in Italy, 99-101;
• defeats the Huns, 108;
• disgraced and restored, 108.

Benedict III., reconciles the sons of Lothair, 425;

• his quarrel with Photius, 453.

Benevento, origin of duchy of, 187;

• invaded by Charles the Great, 349;
• by Moors, 450;
• by Byzantines, 460.

Berengar of Friuli, king of Italy, 445;

• his wars with Wido, 463;
• deposed, 463;
• regains his kingdom, 465;
• defeats Lewis of Arles, 466;
• defeats the Moors, 466;
• murdered, 467.

Bernard, king of Italy, 377;

• rebels, 389;
• death, 390.

Bernard of Septimania, minister of Lewis the Pious, 386.

Bertha, marries Ethelbert of Kent, 161.

—— wife of Pippin the Short, 329;

• reconciles her sons, 336.

Berthari, Lombard king, 273;

• deposed and restored, 273, 274;
• his reign, 275.

Bessas, governor of Rome, 99, 100.

Biorn, jarl, ravages Neustria, 425.

Blue and Green factions, 50;

• in the ‘Nika’ sedition, 71-73;
• armed by Maurice, 154;
• by Phocas, 157.

Bodolin slays Childerich I., 258.

Boethius, his imprisonment and death, 30.

Bohemia conquered by Charles the Great, 361;

• revolts, 434.

Boniface, St. (Winifrith), missionary to Germany, 291;

• archbishop of Transrhenane Germany, 297;
• reforms the Chur 63;
• atrocities of, 168;
• death, 169.

—— II., king of Neustria, 266;

• invades Austrasia, 266;
• defeated by Charles Martel, 266-267;
• death, 268.

Chindaswinth, king of Visigoths, 225;

• his strong administration, 226.

Chinthila, king of Visigoths, 225.

Chlodomer, king of Orleans, 111;

• slain by Burgundians, 114.

Chlodovald (St. Cloud), 114.

Chlodovech I. (Chlodwig), king of the Franks, 25, 26, 58;

• conquers Northern Gaul, 59;
• marries Chrotehildis, 59;
• subdues Alamanni, 60;
• his conversion, 61;
• wars with Burgundians, 62;
• conquers Aquitaine, 63;
• king of all the Franks, 64.

—— II., king of Neustria, 179, 256, 257, 264.

Chlothar I., king of Soissons, 111, 112;

• murders his nephews, 114;
• conquers Burgundy, 115;
• wars with Visigoths, 119;
• defeated by Saxons, 120;
• sole king of the Franks, 121;
• death, 122.

Chlothar II., king of Neustria, 169;

• wars with Austrasians, 174;
• murders Brunhildis, 174;
• decline in power of, 178.

Chlothar III., king of Neustria, 257, 258.

—— IV., king of Austrasia, 267.

Chosroes I., king of Persia, 69;

• makes peace with Justinian, 69;
• receives embassy from Witiges, 86;
• war with Justinian, 92-96;
• with Justin II., 147.

—— II., placed on throne by Maurice, 151;

• war with Phocas, 155;
• with Heraclius, 205-211;
• death, 212.

Chramn, son of Chlothar I., 120;

• burnt alive, 121.

Christophorus, rebellion of, 317.

Chrotehildis (Clotilde) wife of Chlodovech, 59, 108.

Hunwulf, brother of Odoacer, 14.

Hygelac, Danish king, 113, 415.

Hypatius, nephew of Anastasius, 51, 52;

• proclaimed emperor in the ‘Nika’ sedition, 71-73.

Iconoclasm, origin of, 308-309;

• edict of Leo the Isaurian, 281;
• troubles resulting from, 310-312;
• condemned by Council of Rome, 284;
• affirmed by Council of Constantinople, 314;
• condemned by Council of Nicaea, 318;
• restored by Leo V., 483;
• put down by Theodora, 489.

Iconoduly, extravagancies of, 308;

• restored by Irene, 318;
• by Theodora, 489.

Illus, minister of Zeno, 38, 43;

• his rebellion, 44.

Image-worship. See Iconoclasm.

Ingo murders Oskytel, 498.

Ingunthis, wife of Hermenegild, 137.

Institutes of Justinian, 110.

Ireland, Vikings in, 417-418.

Irene, empress, regency of, 318;

• conspires against her son, 319;
• blinds him, 319;
• dethroned by Nicephorus, 320.

Irminsul, Saxon sanctuary, cast down by Charles the Great, 346.

Isaurians favoured by Leo I., 36;

• and Zeno, 38;
• rebel under Longinus, 48.

Islam, religion of, 312-315.

Isperich, Bulgarian king, 248.

Italy, Goths in, 19-24;

• reconquered by Justinian, 80-104;
• Lombard, invasion of, 181;
• its divisions, 187-189;
• Moors in, 450-466.
• See under Lombards and Papacy, 272-288.

Jebel-Tarik (Gibraltar), 234.

Jerusalem taken by Persians, 205;

• by Saracens, 219.

Jesse of Amiens conspires against Lewis the Pious, 394;

• death, 399.

Jews persecuted by Phocas, 156;

• persecuted by Visigoths, 143, Liberius invades Spain, 133.
• Lithosoria, battle of, 316.
• Liutprand, Lombard king, 281;
  • conquers the Exarchate, 282;
  • arbitrates between pope and exarch, 284;
  • aids Charles Martel against Saracens, 285;
  • quarrels with Gregory III., 285;
  • death, 287.
• Logothetes, oppression by the, 90, 96.
• Lombards, origin of the, 182;
  • table of Lombard kings, 183;
  • converted to Christianity, 193;
  • dealings of, with the Papacy,;
  • conquered by Charles the Great, 344-348.
• Lothair I., son of Lewis the Pious, 389;
  • his rebellions against his father, 394-396;
  • reconciled with Lewis, 402;
  • emperor, 406;
  • wars with his brother, 407;
  • defeated at Fontenay, 408;
  • troubles with the Vikings, 419;
  • allied with Charles the Bald, 421;
  • abdicates, 422.
• —— II., quarrels with his brothers, 425;
  • wars with the Vikings, 428;
  • allied to Charles the Bald, 425;
  • matrimonial troubles of, 428;
  • death, 431.
• Lotharingia, name of, 428.
• Louvain, battle of, 469.
• LÜgenfeld, the, 397.
• Luitbert, Lombard king, 279-280.
• Luitpold, duke of Bavaria, slain by Magyars, 474.
• LÜneberg Heath, battle of, 438.
• Lupus, Gascon duke, 337.
• Lycandus, theme of, 494.
• Magyars, appearance of the, 471;
  • ravage Italy, 465;
  • their attacks on Germany, 471;
  • slay Luitpold of Bavaria, 474;
  • further ravages of, 476.
• Mallus, Frankish court, 175, 378.
• Mantua, taken by Lombards, 194.
• Manuel, takes Alexandria, 237.
• March of Spain won by Charles the Great, 365;
  • development of, 508.
• Marchfield, assembly of Franks, 269.
• Martin I., pope, disputes with Constans II., 244, 376;
  • banished, 277.
• Martina, wife of Heraclius, 218;
  • her intrigues, 235;
  • banished, 352.
• Saucourt, battle of, 439.
• Saxons, defeat Chlothar I., 120;
  • invade Austrasia, 265;
  • defeated by Charles Martel, 267, 289, 297;
  • rebel against Pippin the Short, 323;
  • subdued by Pippin, 332;
  • by Charles the Great, 346, 351;
  • later rebellions of, 351, 354, 355, 366;
  • rebel against Lewis the German, 408;
  • defeated by the Danes, 434;
  • rebel against Conrad I., 476.
• Schism of Eastern and Western Churches, 453.
• Sebastopolis, battle of, 250.
• Secret History, the, 67, 68.
• Senate, the Roman, sends embassy to Zeno, 1;
  • trial of Boethius in, 30;
  • reorganised by Baduila, 102.
• Sergius, patriarch, 207-208.
• —— pope, refuses obedience to Justinian II., 278.
• —— V., crowns the emperor Lewis II., 423.
• Sharbarz, Persian general, 205-210.
• Sicard, of Benevento, murdered, 450.
• Siconulf, first duke of Salerno, calls in the Moors, 450-452.
• Sicily conquered by Belisarius, 81;
  • Constans in, 245;
  • attacked by the Moors, 447;
  • long wars in, 449;
  • finally reduced by Moors, 460.
• Siegfred, Viking chief, 439;
  • invades Neustria, 441;
  • besieges Paris, 442.
• Sigibert, king of KÖln, ally of Chlodovech, 39;
  • his death, 64.
• —— I., 160;
  • marries Brunhildis, 161;
  • his war with Lombards, 163;
  • with Chilperich, 163;
  • murdered, 164.
• —— II., murdered by Chlothar II., 174.
• —— III., king of Austrasia, 179, 256.
• Sigismund, king of Burgundy, 26-27, 114.
• Silverius, pope, and the Senate invite Belisarius to Rome, 83.
• Siroes, king of Persia, murders his father, 212.
• Sisibut, Visigothic king, 264.
• —— IV., last of the Merovings, 268-297.
• Theudis, regent in Spain, 27;
  • king of the Visigoths, 115, 128;
  • his defeat in Africa, 132;
  • slain, 133.
• Theudigisel, victory of, at Saragossa, 119, 129;
  • king of Visigoths, 133;
  • slain, 133.
• Theudoald, grandson of Pippin II., 264, 266.
• Thomas, rebels against Michael II., 484.
• Thorgisl, raids of, in Ireland, 418.
• Thrasamund, Vandal king, 28.
• ‘Three Chapters’ of Justinian, 107.
• Thuringia, conquered by Theuderich I., 113;
  • recovers its independence, 261;
  • converted to Christianity, 291, 324.
• Tiberius Constantinus, emperor, 148;
  • makes peace with Avars, 149.
• Tiberius Apsimarus, emperor, 252;
  • executed, 253.
• Totila. See Baduila.
• Toulouse, Saracens defeated at, 271;
  • Danes at, 420;
  • county of, 497.
• Transimund, duke of Spoleto, rebels against Luitprand, 285.
• Treviso, battle of, 96.
• Tribonian, quÆstor of Justinian, 71;
  • aids Justinian’s legal reforms, 109.
• True Cross, the, carried off by Persians, 205;
  • won back by Heraclius, 212;
  • restored to Jerusalem, 217;
  • taken to Constantinople, 219.
• Tulga, Visigothic king, 225.
• ‘Type,’ the, of Constans, 241.
• Urias, Gothic chief, takes Milan, 86.
• Urso, Beneventan duke, 460.
• Utrecht, see of, founded, 330;
  • sacked by Danes, 400, 439.
• Vandals in Africa, 8;
  • table of kings of, 12;
  • their oppressive government, 28;
  • destroyed by Belisarius, 79.
• Varahnes, Persian usurper, 151.
• Verden, massacre of, 342, 355.
• Verdun, partition-treaty of, 409.
• Verina, empress, 38, 44.
• Verona held by Goths, 87;
  • taken by Lombards, 185;
  • taken by Charles the Great,
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