She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

The county was formed in 1585, and its boundaries reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time.

The first duke was also honoured with Imperial titles: Emperor Joseph I created him a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1704, and in 1705, he was created Imperial Prince of Mindelheim ( once the lordship of the noted soldier Georg von Frundsberg ).

Pierre-Bermond of Sauve's claim to Toulouse was rejected, and Toulouse was awarded to Simon de Montfort ; the lordship of Melgueil was separated from Toulouse and entrusted to the bishops of Maguelonne.

The old Saxon system of Abgabengrundherrschaft, lordship based on dues and taxes, was replaced by a form of feudalism based on service and labour, personal relationships, and oaths.

Juhel did not retain his lordship for long, however, as he was deprived of his lands in 1088 or 1089, for rebelling against William II.

On taking over the kingdom in 1519, Emperor Charles V granted the lordship of Les Valls, as it was then known, to Germaine of Foix ’ s line in perpetuity.

During the First Crusade Petra was occupied by Baldwin I of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and formed the second fief of the barony of Al Karak ( in the lordship of Oultrejordain ) with the title Château de la Valée de Moyse or Sela.

Hubert had been given the lordship and castle of Montgomery by the king and was encroaching on Llywelyn's lands nearby.

The King's gratitude to Cromwell was expressed in a grant of the lordship of Romney in Newport in Wales and appointment to three relatively minor offices: Master of the Jewels on 14 April 1532, Clerk of the Hanaper on 16 July, and Chancellor of the Exchequer on 12 April 1533.

Like the first lords of Richmond, Peter II of Savoy and Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland before him, George was endowed with the lordship of Richmondshire but without the peerage.

Torquil was ordered to hand over Donald Dubh, heir to the lordship of the Isles, to James IV at Inverness in 1501.

Though an absentee landlord, Leicester, who was also Baron of Denbigh, regarded the lordship as an integral part of a territorial base for a revived House of Dudley.

Despite the decline of European settlement and the loss of contact, Denmark – Norway continued to maintain its claim to lordship of Greenland: in the 1660s, a polar bear was added to the royal coat of arms.

It was originally an early medieval kingdom of varying boundaries known as Glywysing until taken over by the Normans as a lordship.

The lordship of Ferrara was made hereditary by Obizzo II ( d. 1293 ) who was proclaimed Lord of Ferrara in 1264, Lord of Modena 1288 and Lord of Reggio 1289.

It was the primary symbol of lordship and effectively reserved only for the three tiers of kings ( provincial, regional, local ) and for those princely and comital families descending from them in control of significant territories.

William Briwere was granted the lordship of the Manor of Bridgwater by John of England in 1201, and founded Bridgwater Friary.

File: Pissarro lordship. jpg | Camille Pissarro, Lordship Lane Station, c. 1870.

He offered to aid the French King if he would restore his former territories in Normandy, recognize his claim to Burgundy and bestow the promised lordship of Montpellier.

In reference to the Donation, Visconti wrote: " It so happens that even if Constantine consigned to Sylvester so many and such rich gifts — which is doubtful, because such a privilege can nowhere be found — he could only have granted them for his lifetime: the Empire takes precedence over any lordship.

On the nineteenth Lord's death in 1965 the baronetcy and barony were separated ; the lordship passed to his daughter Ann, the twentieth Lady Sempill, while his new younger brother, Ewan, succeeded in the baronetcy, which could only be inherited by male heirs, after a two-year legal dispute to determine if he was a legitimate male successor.

Alternatively, a feudal steel tilting helm garnished in gold, that may be shown affronté, may appear, or a helmet of some other degree if the baron holds a higher rank, such as a lordship of parliament.

After the region around St. David's was firmly occupied by the Norman Marcher lordship of Pembroke by the early 12th century, with St. David's firmly under Norman influence thereafter, the princely Dinefwr family of Deheubarth transferred their patronage to Strata Florida, interring many of their family members there.

Land for 16 ploughs ; in lordship 2 hides ; 3 ploughs there.

Though this act is often viewed as an act of loyalty, there had been a second goal, to re-establish the Asanos ' lordship and finding a place to serve for fellow samurai.

During the second of these periods it was organised as a feudal lordship, with the following Lords of Jerba: 1284 – 1305 Roger I, 1305 – 1307 and 1307 – 1310 Roger II ( twice ), 1310 Charles, 1310 Francis-Roger III ; there were also royal governors, partially overlapping with the lordship terms: c. 1305 – 1308 Simon de Montolieu, 1308 – 1315 Raymond Montaner.

Wynebald also had a holding at Caerleon, above which, also on the River Usk, his brother Hamelin de Ballon founded the extensive marcher lordship of Abergavenny, and built the castle there.

During the Middle Age it served as a natural border between the Biscay lordship and Castile counties, entry taxes were collected there.

With this dark mood upon him, he came to conquer the region known as Barovia, and assumed lordship there, taking as his residence the pre-existing castle known as Ravenloft.

The lordship remained in the possession of the Brienne Dukes of Athens even after their expulsion from Athens in 1311, and those Dukes continued to be recognized there.

When she divided her inheritance, her sixth son, Guy of Enghien received the lordship and took up residence there.

... On most of these points I should have written to your lordship sooner but the state of public business has really not left me the time of doing so ; and it is not without very deep regret that I feel myself under the necessity of interrupting your attention by considerations of this sort while there are so many others of a different nature which all our minds ought to be directed ".

Llywelyn is conjectured to have been born some time before 1267, as Gruffudd was dispossessed of the lordship of Senghenydd in that year by Gilbert de Clare and subsequently imprisoned in Ireland ; there is no record of him returning to Wales.

The death of Gilbert de Clare, the Lord of Glamorgan and the most prominent landowner in the south, at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, left a power vacuum in the region, and the heavy-handed response of the English Crown towards overseeing de Clare's lands there, combined with the death of several hundred men of Glamorgan at Bannockburn, precipitated a revolt in the lordship in late summer of that year.

Held the lordship of Argos and Nauplia in Greece for his uncle and was resident lord there from c. 1350, but apparently returned to Europe in 1360s at latest.

However, her sixth son Guy of Enghien received the lordship of Argos and Nauplia in the division and resided there as the lord from 1356 to 1377.

The Uí Catháin of Cenél nEógain originated in the Laggan area of County Donegal, and from there moved eastwards in the twelfth century, ousting the Uí Conchobair from Keenaght and retaining their lordship of Keenaght and Coleraine until the seventeenth century.

The lordship of Villars ( of which archival evidence dates from 940 ) became, by marriage, the lordship of Thoire-et-Vilars in 1188, and in about 1400 its caput was Trévoux ( the estate was managed from there ).

According to Bloch, other elements of society can be seen in feudal terms ; all the aspects of life were centered on " lordship ", and so we can speak usefully of a feudal church structure, a feudal courtly ( and anti-courtly ) literature, and a feudal economy.

The first major persecution in Europe, when witches were caught, tried, convicted, and burned in the imperial lordship of Wiesensteig in southwestern Germany, is recorded in 1563 in a pamphlet called " True and Horrifying Deeds of 63 Witches ".

When his sons Isildur and Anárion landed in Middle-earth after the drowning of Númenor, they were welcomed by the colonists and their claim of lordship was accepted, while Elendil was held to be the High King of all lands of the Dúnedain.

Knowing that the mission was not allowed to make any concessions on the point of religion and the territorial integrity of the provinces themselves ( the southern fortress cities of Breda ,'s-Hertogenbosch and Maastricht were in the Generality Lands ) Louis demanded — besides twenty million guilders and an annual embassy from the States-General to Louis asking pardon for their perfidy — either religious freedom for the Catholics or lordship over Utrecht and Guelders, merely to humiliate the Dutch a bit further.

Originally belonging to their lordship the Glens of Antrim, the Bissetts were later dispossessed of Rathlin by the English, who were in control of the Earldom of Ulster, for welcoming Bruce.

It was conditioned on the lord swearing to defend and maintain the fuero ( Biscayan laws, derived from Navarrese and Basque customary rights ), which affirmed that the possessors of the sovereignty of the lordship were the Biscayans and that, at least in theory, they could refute the lord.

However, after the Norman conquest, areas east of the Wye, within the former Saxon royal manor of Tidenham and including Beachley, Tutshill, Sedbury and Tidenham Chase, were included within the lordship of Striguil or Chepstow.

They were motivated by concern about what they perceived as increasingly liberal views among the Disciples fellowship on issues such as the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Bible and homosexuality.

In the course of a quarrel with his father and his half-brother Hugh, Calvagh sought aid in Scotland from the Campbells, who with access to Scottish royal artillery were able to assist him in deposing Manus and securing the now very divided lordship of Tyrconnell for himself.

Walter's son Walter VI of Brienne retained only the lordship of Argos and Nauplia, where his claims to the Duchy were still recognized.

They were reunited by King Stephen before July 1137 and would remain a single lordship until the nineteenth century.

The castles were later completely overhauled by Hubert de Burgh, who was granted lordship of the Three Castles by King John in 1201.

That is because Harold Godwinson's grants and titles to all of his subjects were considered null and void by his opponent William, who stressed the " good old days " of Edward the Confessor, in claiming to be Edward's rightful heir ( and so replaced small land owners everywhere in England with Norman lordship magnates ).

However, many hundreds were in private hands, with the lordship of the hundred being attached to the principal manor of the area and becoming hereditary.

The earldom of Temple of Stowe and lordship of Kinloss also held by the Duke were passed on to his nephew and daughter respectively ( see these titles for more information ).

Without legitimate sons to succeed him, Alan's lands and dignities were divided between the husbands of his three daughters, so Roger acquired Alan's position as Constable of Scotland, and one-third of the lordship of Galloway ( although the actual title of Lord of Galloway went through Helen's half-sister Devorguilla to her husband John I de Balliol ), and part of the de Morville lands in Lauderdale.

“ The said Abbess and Convent had presented their humble petition setting forth that their aforesaid monastery was so small and confined in its dimensions that the numerous persons therein ... were not only incommodiously but dangerously situated ... that in consequence thereof the said abbess and convent had chosen out a spot in the neighbourhood of their said priory within the said lordship of Isleworth, more meet healthful and salubrious for them to inhabit .” The danger of the situation referred to may have been due to proximity to the river, or possibly even spiritual danger to the inmates due to a too close intermingling of the sexes.

Attempts to buy the lordship were also refused by Finch, but he died in 1914, and his half-brother Wilfred Henry Montgomery Finch sold it on 13 July 1915, resulting in the War Office owning around two-thirds of the island.

A single local family were in possession of the lordship of Hollingworth for more than 700 years and were styled ' Hollingworth of Hollingworth ' or De Hollyngworth ( Holynworth ).