the (_temp._ Charles the Bald), i. 135;
their privileges under the feudal system, 195, 196;
fighting prelates, 195 _note_ f;
their participation in legislative proceedings, 213, 215;
privileges of their tenants, 319;
bishops in Lombardy and their temporalities, 364, 366 and _note_ x;
share of the citizens in their election, 366 and _note_ y;
a robber archbishop, ii. 95;
immense territorial possessions of the clergy, 148 and _notes_;
their acquisition of political power, 152, 153;
their neglect of the rule of celibacy, 176, 177;
sufferings of the married clergy, 177 and _note_ d;
lax morality of the English clergy, 178, 179 _notes_;
practice of simony, 179;
consent of the laity required in the election of bishops, _ib._;
interference of the sovereigns therein, 180 and _note_ n;
character of the clergy of Milan, 187 _note_ g;
taxation of the clergy by the kings, 216;
tribute levied on them by the popes, 216, 217;
their disaffection towards Rome, 218;
their exemption from temporal jurisdiction, 219-221;
extortions of Edward I., 229;
effects of Wicliff's principles, 252;
priests executed for coining, _ib. note_ e;
spiritual peers in the English parliament, iii. 4, 5;
their qualifications, 122;
clergy summoned to send representatives, 131;
cause of their being summoned, 132;
result of their segregating themselves from the commons, 133;
instances of their parliamentary existence, 135-138;
right of bishops to be tried by the peers, 204-207;
mediaeval clergy not supporters of despotism, 258;
their ignorance of letters, 287-289;
their monastic vices, 303;
why a bishop made a Danish nobleman drunk, 306 _note_ u.
See Church, Monasteries, Papal Power, Superstition.

Clisson (constable de), immense wealth amassed by, i. 69.

Clodomir (son of Clovis), dominions allotted to, i. 4;
proposed alternative relative to his children, 311 _note_.

Clotaire, portion of dominions allotted to, i. 4;
union of the whole under him, 5;
re-division amongst his sons, _ib._;
criminality of his character, 119.

Clotaire II., reunion of the French dominions under, i. 5;
nature of the authority exercised by him, 117.

Clotilda converts her husband to Christianity, i. 3;
her sons, 4.

Clovis invades Gaul and defeats Syagrius, i. 2;
accepts the title of consul, _