Chelsea, Middlesex, conference at, 111.
Chester, Danes fortify themselves at, but evacuate, 117.
Chichester, Sussex, abortive Danish attack on, 117.
Chippenham, Wilts., Danes try to seize Alfred at, 59, 61, 102, 162;
captured by Alfred, 103.
Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon, relation of Alfred to, 11, 145-6;
value of, for reign of Alfred, 11-13;
reticence of, as to Alfred, 12, 13;
relation of, to Asser, 14, 48-51, 93 _n._;
to Ethelwerd, 51 _n._, 60;
to Henry of Huntingdon, 60, 61;
to William of Malmesbury, 62;
to Anglo-Saxon translation of Orosius, 146, 157-8;
chronological error in, 50, 104 _n._, 108, 110, 112.
Cirencester, Glouc., Danes retire to, 104.
Clovis, king of the Franks, receives consular insignia from
Constantinople, 72, 73.
Colne, R., Herts, Danes blockaded on, 114-5.
Constantinople, Clovis receives consular insignia from, 72.
Copenhagen, bombardment of, by Nelson, 163.
Cornwall, episcopal supervision of, 18-20;
kings of, 19 (_see_ Dumgarth);
St. Guerier and St. Neot buried in, 26;
not included in Saxonia, 38;
St. Neot settles in, 56.
Corvey, Westphalia, John the Old Saxon, a monk of, 137.
Croyland, Lincs, monastery of, 66, 67;
abbot of, _see_ Ingulf;
monk of, _see_ Tolius.
Cuthbert, St., part played by, in the legends of Alfred, 62.
Cuthred, joint king of the West Saxons, baptised by Birinus, 72.
Cuthwulf, kinsman of Cered, 13;
buys land of Cered’s widow, Werthryth, 13;
charter granted to, 13.
Cynwit, Devon, fort of, surveyed by Asser, 16;
besieged by the Danes, 44;
Danes defeated at, 104.
Danes, generic name for Scandinavian invaders, 87 _n._;
movements of, 12, 49, 75, 87, 88, 92-5, 98-104, 107, 108, 112-8;
destruction of documents by, 13;
division of Mercia by, 24;
Celts take part with, 43, 99;
in Northumbria, 42;
winter in Dyfed, and besiege Cynwit, 44, 51;
monasteries ravaged by, 53, 66, 127, 129;
Burgred expelled by, 53, 100;
try to surprise Alfred at Chippenham, 57-9, 61;
young Dane educated by Alfred at Athelney, 16;
ravages of, 66, 77, 87 _n._, 121, 127, 129, 136, 138;
winter in England, 74, 87;
mobility of, 106, 107.
Dante, his use of Boethius, 179;
his theory of the Empire, 208-9.
Danubium, _see_ Denmark.
David, comparison of Alfred with, 149.
Denmark, called ‘Danubium’ by Asser, 41;
Canute, king of, 41.
Devon, men of, resist the Danes, 103, 104;
ealdorman of, _see_ Odda.
Driffield, Yorks., Aldfrid of Northumbria dies at, 65.
Dubslane, one of three ‘Scots’ who came to Alfred, 131.
Duisburg, on the Rhine, Danes winter at, 40.
Dumgarth, king of Cornwall, drowned in 875, 19.
Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, St. Neot said to have been a monk
under (!), 56.
Durham, Simeon of, _see_ Simeon.
Dyfed, South Welsh kingdom, including Pembrokeshire and part of
Carmarthenshire, Danes winter in, 44, 51, 103;
king of, _see_ Hemeid.
Dyle, R., Belgium, Arnulf defeats the Danes on, 112.
Eadbald, king of Kent, his incestuous marriage, 80.
Eadburh, Alfred’s maternal grandmother, often seen by Asser, 16.
Eadburh, daughter of Offa, and wife of Beorhtric of Wessex, her crimes,
and subsequent misfortunes, 16, 17, 79 _n._;
offends Charles the Great, 17.
Eafa, of Wessex, confused with Offa of Mercia, 66.
Ealhswith, daughter of Æthelwulf, and wife of Burgred of Mercia, 88.
Eanwulf, ealdorman of Somerset, alleged rebellion of, against Æthelwulf,
78, 79.
East Anglia, not included in Saxonia, 38;
Alfred sends fleet to, 64, 108;
relation of, to Wessex, 85;
occupied and conquered by the Danes, 87, 88, 92, 105;
Danes retire to, 104;
Danes of, rebel and are punished, 108, 109;
Alfred exacts oaths and hostages from, 113;
share of, in the campaigns of 893 ff., 113-5, 117-8;
kings of, _see_ Edmund, Guthrum, Sigbert.