Wagram, battle of,619.Waibling, castle of,179, note.Waldensians,221f.,452.Waldo, Peter,221.Wales,135,277f.Wallenstein,468and note,469f.Wallingford, charter of,240.Walpole,526.Walther von der Vogelweide,258,384.War and Peaceof Grotius,508.War, neighborhood,117ff.War of the Barons,146f.Warfare, modern,684,686.Wars of the Roses,296ff.Warsaw, grand duchy of,614,626.Wartburg,405;festival at the,633.Washington, George,533f.Waterloo, battle of,624.Watt, James,675.Welf,179.Wellington,623f.Wessex,133.West Frankish kingdom,94.See alsoFranks.West Goths,25f.,36,39,71.Westphalia, kingdom of,614,623.Westphalia, Peace of,472f.Whitby, Council of,62.White Hill, battle on the,467.William the Conqueror, claim of, to English crown,136;policy of, in England,136ff.,165.William III of England,492ff.,505,506,523f.,525.William of Orange, king of England,seeWilliam III.William of Orange (the Silent),448ff.William I of Prussia,656f.;chosen emperor,665."Winter king,"467.Witenagemot,135,137,147.Wittenberg, University of,389;reform at,407f.Wolfram von Eschenbach,258.Wolsey, Cardinal,367,427ff.Worms, council of,167;Concordat of,171;diet of,400f.;Edict of,403f.,415.Writing, style of, used in Charlemagne's time,89.Würtemberg,372;duke of, assumes the title of King,612;granted a constitution,635.Wycliffe, John,308f.;influence of, on Huss,315,393.Xavier,442."Yea and Nay," by Abelard,268.York, house of,296,297, note.Young, Arthur,544.Young Italy,639.Young Pretender,526f.Zealand,449.Zipangu (Japan),347.Zollverein,635.Zurich,421f.,424.Zwingli,416,420,423ff.