ter, duke of (_temp._ Richard II.), speaks for the parliament,
iii. 67, 68 _note_ c;
made lord appellant, 72;
reinstated in the council, 73;
his animosity towards the duke of Lancaster, 74, 75;
his seizure by the king, 76;
his murder and posthumous attainder, _ib._
Godfrey of Boulogne, eastern domains assigned to, i. 38;
his reasons for refusing the title of king, _ib. note_ g;
his feats of strength, _ib. note_ h.
Granada, fertility and importance of, ii. 60;
its unavailing resistance to Ferdinand, _ib._
Gratian, character of the Decretum compiled by, ii. 203.
Greek church, marriage of priests permitted by the, ii. 176.
Greek empire, degeneracy of the, ii. 120;
its theological dissensions, _ib._;
revival of its power, 124;
tactics of its emperors, 125 and _note_ n;
exploits of celebrated usurpers, 126;
results of the first crusade, 127;
expeditions of Alexius Comnenus, 128;
sacking of the capital, 128-130;
partition of the empire, 130;
its declining state, 132;
lukewarmness of the western Christians, 135;
fall of the empire, 136;
the last of the Caesars, _ib._;
Greek anti-exportation anecdote, iii. 315 _note_ a.
See Constantinople.
Gregory I., character of, ii. 161;
he establishes the appellant jurisdiction, 162, _note_ r.
Gregory II., design of, for placing Rome under Charles Martel's
protection, i. 122.
Gregory IV. and V., submission of, to imperial authority, ii. 182.
Gregory VII., projection of the crusades by, i. 34;
his obligations to the countess Matilda, 380;
his ascendency over the clergy, ii. 183, 184;
elected pope, 184;
his differences with, and excommunication of, Henry IV. of Germany,
184, 185 and _note_;
rigorous humiliation imposed by him on Henry, 186;
his exile and death, 187;
his declaration against investitures, 189;
his illimitable ambition and arrogance, 192;
his despotism towards ecclesiastics, 193;
his arrogance eclipsed by Innocent III., 228.
Gregory IX., excommunications of Frederic II. by, i. 387, 391;
his further designs against Frederic, _ib._;
Decretals published by his order, ii. 203;
his encroachments on the English church, 212;
his pretext for levying contributions, 216;
immense sum extorted by him from England, 217.
Gregory X., tax levied on the churc
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