Norfolk, Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of, iv. 173; plots with Mary Stuart, 265, 266; sent to the Tower, 268; released, 271; again plots with Mary, _ib._, 272; arrest and death, 274
Norfolk, Henry Howard, seventh Duke of, vii. 21, 42
Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, first Duke of (_see_ Nottingham), ii. 372, 378
Norfolk, John Mowbray, third Duke of, iii. 80
Norfolk, Thomas, Earl of, son of Edward I., ii. 206, 207
Norman, prior of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, i. 223
Normandy, its relation to English history, i. 154; settlement of northmen in, 127, 141, 155; relations with France, 155, 156; with English kings, 156; Æthelred II. in, 143, 156; condition under William the Conqueror, 158, 159; pledged by Robert to William Rufus, 197; conquered by Henry I., 202; invaded by Lewis VII., 254; by Philip Augustus, 263; laid under interdict, 263; conquered by Philip, 269; ceded by Henry III., ii. 63; invaded by Edward III., 235; conquered by Henry V., iii. 33, 34; Bedford's rule in, 55; regained by Charles VII., 62; historians of, i. 6
Normans, their settlement, i. 155; temper, _ib._, 158; in England under Eadward the Confessor, 151; their flight, 153; fusion with the English, 200, 281; settlers in London, 303; in Wales, ii. 48
Northampton reduced by Eadward the Elder, i. 119; John's deposition proclaimed at, 333; John and Langton at, 340; Essex musters the Parliamentary army at, vi. 2; Assize of, i. 255; battle of, iii. 75; councils at, i. 237; ii. 120; treaty of, ii. 205
Northampton, William Bohun, Earl of, ii. 237
Northampton, George Compton, fourth Earl of, vii. 23
Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, v. 191
Northampton, William Parr, first Marquis of, iv. 47
North Foreland, battles off the, vi. 238, 239
Northmen, their temper, i. 100; attack Britain, 101; settle in Ireland, 103; victorious at Charmouth, _ib._; defeated at Aclea, _ib._; conquer Northumbria and East Anglia, 104; attack Wessex, 105; defeated at Ashdown, _ib._; invade Mercia, _ib._; Alfred's struggle with, 106, 107, 116, 117; attack Wessex, 118; character of their attack, i. 125, 126; fusion with English, 126, 127; their work in England, 129; settle in Iceland, the Orkneys and Hebrides, _ib._; again threaten England, 139; victory at Maldon, _ib._; bought off by Æthelred, 140; mercenaries in England, massacred, 141; settlement in Gaul. _See_ Normandy, Normans