Sentence examples for * lordship in from inspiring English sources

Satan has been reduced to lordship in this world.

Pisa and Siena accepted Gian Galeazzo's lordship in 1399, Perugia and other Umbrian towns in 1400.

The counts of Léon held the lordship in the 12th century, but this was disputed by the dukes of Brittany.

His nephew and heir dies aboard the Titanic, leaving his lordship in a tight spot because he has only managed to breed daughters.

Bergen op Zoom (meaning "hills on the Zoom," or perhaps "on the border [of the marshes]") became a lordship in 1287 by separation from Breda and was a hereditary fief of the duchy of Brabant.

Signoria, (Italian: "lordship"), in the medieval and Renaissance Italian city-states, a government run by a signore (lord, or despot) that replaced republican institutions either by force or by agreement.

At the same time, knights from lesser elite families in Normandy were establishing territorial lordships in southern Italy.

A younger son of Roger de Montgomery, 1st earl of Shropshire or Shrewsbury, Robert inherited lordships in Normandy, among them Bellême (in the present French département of Orne).

Under William III's will, John William Friso stood to inherit the Principality of Orange as well as several lordships in the Netherlands.

The English lordships in Ireland were in danger of being overrun, and the Anglo-Irish lords were pleading for the king to intervene.

David established large-scale feudal lordships in the west of his Cumbrian principality for the leading members of the French military entourage who kept him in power.