How To Use Earldom In A Sentence
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When in 1254 he created an apanage for his eldest son, Edward, two of its principal components were the lordship of Ireland and the earldom of Chester, within which was comprised several Welsh lordships.
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His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.
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His Scotch estates were confiscated, and his title attained ” the attainder of the earldom was not reversed until 1824.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague
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Magnus claimed his share of the earldom, but within a few years Haakon determined to dispose of his political rival.
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Is the foregoing family a branch of that of Herefordshire, now ennobled; or does it come down from one of the name anterior to the time when such earldom was made patent, viz. from Sir Richard Harley, 28 Edward I.: whose armorial bearings, according to one annalist, is mentioned as _Or, bend cotized sable_?
Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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I heard he'd been pressuring John for an earldom, and I think John finally ran out of patience.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.
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He had succeeded to the earldom in 1678 and embarked on an ambitious programme for refurbishing his Elizabethan ancestral home.
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You dragged me across the earldom because you were lonely?
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His father had insisted they make a round of the earldom and visit some ‘family friends’ on the way back to Trieste.
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On the death of his brother Brien in 1562 he succeeded to the earldom, though his title was not recognized by Elizabeth until 1585.
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The king disseised Odo of his immensely wealthy earldom of Kent and banished him from England for his leadership of the recent rebellion.
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No earldom, baronetage, or knighthood protected him.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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The family acquired the status of English earls under Stephen, retaining their foreign title, expressed in English in the form of Albemarle, being the first house of comital rank abroad to hold an earldom with a French name unassociated with any English shire.
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
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Gillebride had then succeeded to both the reduced Scottish earldom of Caithness and the whole of the Orkney jarldom as successor in the Angus line of Magnus II; and Gillebride had died in 1256 leaving a son Magnus III.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
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Born in Montfort, he was well received by Henry when he arrived in England in 1230, allowed to claim the earldom of Leicester, and married the king's youngest sister Eleanor.
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The only prime ministers who really retired but never got a peerage were the great Liberal leader William Gladstone, who declined an earldom, and Churchill, who declined a dukedom.
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When she married her first husband, the heir to an earldom, her Colonsay daddy gave her away while her real, Edinburgh daddy sat quietly in a frontpew.
What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam
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To appease his uncles, cousins, and younger siblings, King Rham crafted five different duchies instead of the original three set by Phendarm (for Rhamâs four brothers and a royal duchy around the capitol) and more than a score of earldoms among them.
The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: The Phendarm Protectorates
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In 1136, St Magnus' nephew, Rognvald, sailed into Pierowall during his invasion to seize the Orkney earldom.
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thanage"; the Celtic king (_righ_) of the tribe became the thane; the province or group of tribes (say Moray) became the earldom; the Celtic
A Short History of Scotland
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Uhtred is the heir to the earldom of Bebbanburgh, now known as Bamburgh, in northern England, after his older brother and his father are killed by Viking raiders.
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There were never any estates; the title lapsed; the present earldom is a new creation, not in the same family at all.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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That no serious trouble ever came from the so-called palatine earldoms is itself evidence of the powerful monarchy ruling in England.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
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As it happened the earldom had died out with the death of the eleventh earl.
SANDS OF TIME
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Upon Rhamâs death in 237 OD, the five duchies became three again, though yet more earldoms and baronies propagated with each generation.
The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: The Phendarm Protectorates
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To the garter nobody can have slenderer pretensions; his family is scarce older than his earldom, which is of the youngest.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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The generalisation of a contemporary writer was that, ‘everything was for sale, powers, lordships, earldoms, shrievalties, castles, towns, manors, and suchlike’ was indeed not far from the truth.
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They were also one of the poorer earldoms in Gwyn.
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When William of Normandy conquered England, he rewarded his followers with fiefs: in England, while English land remained so to be parceled out; afterwards (he and his successors) with unconquered lands in Wales, and then in Ireland. they were to carve out baronies and earldoms for themselves; and the Celtic lands thus stolen became known as the Marches: their rulers, more or less independent, but doing homage to the king, as Lords
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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Although earldoms were granted by charters from the earliest period, because, attached to the earldom, were also material rights which needed to be conveyed, patents did not come into use for baronies until it was desired to limit the succession of the peerage to the heirs male of the body of the grantee, which is a limitation and a less heirship than is comprised in the enjoyment of an honour in fee simple.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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I prefer that one of the most powerful earldoms is in the hands of a young boy who is absent.
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If a union met with his disapproval anywhere in his earldom, the proposal could be voided.
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After the execution of her brother the earl of Warwick in 1499, she was sole heiress to the dukedom of Clarence and the earldoms of Salisbury and of Warwick, and was granted the title countess of Salisbury in 1513.
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Since the titles of dukes and marquises were restricted, earldoms became, in practice, the senior title.
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Upon his father's death, John became Earl of Huntingdon, and he'll one day inherit the earldom of Chester, too.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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It was almost a relief when everyone started reminding each other about the ancient and baffling phenomenon of entailment, the insane property law that enabled a complete stranger (well, a third cousin, once removed, in Manchester) to inherit all your money and earldom and acres of rolling parkland.
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Erlend, only son of Harald Slettmali, and really entitled to the whole earldom, obtained from his relative [28] King Malcolm, then a boy of under twelve, through his powerful kin, a grant of half of the earldom of Caithness jointly with Harold Maddadson, who objected to give him half the Orkney jarldom unless King Eystein confirmed the grant.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
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The only prime ministers who really retired but never got a peerage were the great Liberal leader William Gladstone, who declined an earldom, and Churchill, who declined a dukedom.
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The Scottish aristocracy, made up of dukes, marquesses, earldoms and viscounts, still in this age of post-deference hold significant power and wealth.
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I am afraid I have seen only fragments of his programmes, but my desk is covered with letters from people who think he should be given a knighthood, or a hereditary earldom, for his campaign.
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Lord John was twice Prime Minister - from 1846 to 1852 and from 1865 to 1866-and was raised to an earldom by Queen Victoria.
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Upon Rhamâs death in 237 OD, the five duchies became three again, though yet more earldoms and baronies propagated with each generation.
The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: The Phendarm Protectorates
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I., nor that in a remote branch of my family there exists a claimant to an earldom, nor that an uncle of mine used to own a dog that was descended from the dog that was in the Ark; and at the same time I was never able to persuade myself to call a gibbet by its right name when accounting for other ancestors of mine, but always spoke of it as the
Christian Science
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Tostig, who had been dispossessed of his earldom, raided the south-east coast before joining the invasion by Harald Hardrada of Norway in northern England.
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Shortly afterwards Ælfgār was restored to his earldom and a peace treaty concluded.
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When Earl Siward of Northumbria died two years later, his earldom went to Harold's brother Tostig.
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In 1055, Earl Siward of Northumbria died whilst his son, Waltheof, was too young to succeed him, and Harold manoeuvred his brother Tostig into the earldom.
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King Henry V, the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Derby and Mary Bohun, coheiress of the Earldom of Hereford, was born at Monmouth Castle.
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You might as well have enough issue to fill up all those subsidiary earldoms and baronetcies.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1726, when he succeeded to the earldom of Chesterfield on the death of his father, he became a Member of the House of Lords.
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He was granted an earldom in 1944 and remained at his post until 1946.
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Gruffudd now allied himself with Ælfgār, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of East Anglia by Harold Godwinson and his brothers.
Kings and Princes
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John without any male heir, and save for his nameless hostage daughter or her children, if any, without any direct lineal heirs for the jarldom and earldom of Orkney and of Caithness respectively.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
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The highest price paid to date for a baronial title is £250,000 for the feudal Earldom of Arran, which comes with several thousand acres.
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Gloucester's lack of sight caused him to believe Edmund was the good son and prevented him from pondering the idea of Edmund being after his earldom.
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She did not realise that for Russell, the legitimacy of possible heirs to the earldom of Russell was of paramount importance.
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By the end of the 9th century, the colonisation of Orkney had been so successful that it had become a Norwegian earldom.
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When he died, it went in turn to the third son, George, who founded the family of the Sinclairs of Mey which succeeded to the earldom in 1789.
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One need only read the what the poet wrote to Southampton to realize that these are not the words of the holder of the oldest title in England to a much younger man whose earldom went back only three generations.
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When he died, it went in turn to the third son, George, who founded the family of the Sinclairs of Mey which succeeded to the earldom in 1789.
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We concede that were he able to pull off this feat, an earldom, as opposed to a mere honorary knighthood, would be a more appropriate reward.
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When William the Conqueror (William I) and his Norman army conquered England in 1066, the three English earldoms of Chester, Shrewsbury, and Hereford were established on the border with Wales.
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I come from a good family, my father was an honorable man, and I was the lord of one of the richest earldoms in the kingdom.
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Augustus Hare described it as “an imitation, not a caricature of the best Italian models,” was built for R.S. Holford in 1851-53 on the site of an older house of the same name belonging to the extinct earldom of Dorchester.
Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade
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As late as the sixteenth century the issue of a handfast marriage claimed the earldom of Sutherland
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For him, the earldom was a private treasure chest, not an estate that fed thousands of people.
The Pillars of the Earth
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As it happened the earldom had died out with the death of the eleventh earl.
SANDS OF TIME
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It was, however, Earl Magnus who made such claims, and with success, and he may well have obtained the Orkney jarldom and lands, and part of the Caithness earldom as well, with the title, not only as being the son of the elder of Harald Ungi's sisters, but as the husband of
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
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In 944, when the last Danish king was expelled from York, Northumbria became an earldom of England.
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He became Viscount Dunlo in 1801 and inherited the earldom from his father, the first Earl of Clancarty, in 1803.
