vival of the office of podesta, 396;
position of aristocratic offenders amongst them, 397;
duties and disabilities of the podesta, 397, 398;
their internal dissensions, 398, 399;
artisan clubs and aristocratic fortifications, 400;
vindictiveness of conquerors of all classes, 401;
inflammatory nature of private quarrels, and their disastrous results,
402;
effect of Giovanni di Vicenza's exhortations, 403, 404;
moral deducible from the fall of the Lombard republics, 408, 409;
the Visconti in Lombardy, 464.
See Visconti.

Longchamp (William, bishop of Ely), constitutional precedent established
by the banishment of, ii. 325.

London, early election of the magistrates of, iii. 219;
its municipal divisions, 220;
its first lord mayor, 221;
not exclusively a city of traders, 223;
its extent and population, _ib._;
comparison with Paris, 224.

Loria (Roger di), naval successes of, i. 484.

Lothaire (son of Louis the Debonair), associated in power with his
father, i. 15;
his jealousy of his half-brother, 16;
territories allotted to him, 16, 17, and _notes_ o, p;
cause of his excommunication, ii. 169, 170.

Lothaire (duke of Saxony), elected emperor of Germany, ii. 71 and
_note_ p;
failure of his scheme of succession, 72;
the picture and couplet relative to his coronation, 195 _note_ g.

Louis of Bavaria, emperor of Germany, ii. 85;
his contest with the popes, 234;
he aids the Visconti, 235;
he dies unabsolved, 236.

Louis I. (the Debonair) succeeds Charlemagne, i. 14;
his cruelty to his nephew, _ib._;
his character, 15;
associates his sons in power with him, _ib._;
his second marriage and its consequences, 16;
enmity of the clergy against him, _ib._;
his practice relative to the hearing of causes, 239, _note_ h;
his attempted deposition by the bishops, ii. 155, 156;
he prohibits trial by ordeal, iii. 295 _note_ x.

Louis of Germany (son of the above) made king of Bavaria by his
father, i. 15;
share of empire allotted to him on his father's death, 16.

Louis II. (the Stammerer), conditions exacted by the French nobles
from, i. 126.

Louis IV. ("Outremer") elected king, i. 128;
Fulk's saucy retort, iii. 286 _note_ e.

Louis V., i. 18, 128.

Louis VI., state of France at the accession of, i. 24;