The phrase "a lordship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a title of nobility or a position of authority, often in a formal or legal context.
Example: "He was granted a lordship for his services to the crown."
Alternatives: "a noble title" or "a peerage".
Formerly a lordship, it was incorporated into Castile in 1332.
He is made the government's entrepreneur czar – a position with clout, prestige and a lordship thrown in.
Glamorgan became a lordship of the Welsh Marches (the frontier district along the English-Welsh border), with its centre at Cardiff Castle.
Inevitably, there was a backlash: a conservative Christian group called the Community Council for Biblical Values began asking the Mayor for a Lordship of Jesus Christ Awareness Week.
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.
Beaufort Family, English family comprising the descendants of Edward III's son John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by his liaison with Catherine Swynford; the name derived from a lordship that Gaunt had held in France, the modern Montmorency-Beaufort near Bar-sur-Aube Bar-sur-Aube Bar-sur-Aube
Dynastic continuity, here as elsewhere, however, was badly interrupted, and none of the succeeding counts were able to organize a coherent lordship.
He and his successors acted as fully independent sovereigns, although the king of France retained a theoretical lordship over Barcelona until 1258.
The Normans made the surrounding district of Buellt a marcher lordship (i.e., part of the political buffer zone between Wales and England) and constructed a fine motte-and-bailey castle at Builth.
The Abovian family held the position of tanuter (a hereditary lordship) in Kanaker; Abovian's uncle was the last tanuter of Kanaker.
Moreover, Matilda's father Waltheof had been Earl of Northumberland, a defunct lordship which had covered the far north of England and included Cumberland and Westmorland, Northumberland-proper, as well as overlordship of the bishopric of Durham.
