Sentence examples for barony from inspiring English sources
noun
The domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire. , an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides and in various numbers composing counties. Any large manor or estate, regardless of its owner's rank.
He had talked with Gait- skell in the early 1960s of taking up Tony Benn's Disclaimer Act and renouncing his peerages - both the inherited title which finally came his way in 1961, and the barony awarded by Attlee.
The early baron held his lands, or barony, of the king; if the lands passed from his family they carried away the rank and the privileges of that rank: such barons were termed barons by tenure.
When she died in 1696, the barony of La Brède passed to Charles-Louis, who was her eldest child, then aged seven.
But before being sent to the royal court at Winchester the material for each county was regrouped under the names of the king and his tenants in chief, thus recognizing the new Norman conception of a feudal society based on the honour or barony, a complex of estates that were treated as a unit even if not adjacent.
After the Middle Ages, the division between east and west (discernible in two different Iron Age groups) was continued in political divisions: the barony of Breda to the west and the Meierij van 's Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc) to the east, both subject to the duchy of Brabant.
Galashiels was originally a village built for accommodation of pilgrims to Melrose Abbey, 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast, and was designated a burgh of barony in 1599.
But these gems have, in general, been locked up in those powerful baronies.
He has decided to "read, rest, travel, write" and spend more time with his wife in Utah.The more difficult part of the mission is to make Time Warner more than just the sum of its parts--to force its feuding baronies, which often feel more loyalty to their "talent" (such as Madonna and Clint Eastwood) than they do to Mr Levin, to work together.
Instead, they were a collection of regional baronies owned by a parent back in Detroit.But globalisation was not simply an opportunity to harness economies from far-flung empires.
So the internal fights between those who argued for painful change to the structure of the political system as well as the economy, and those whose baronies would be threatened broke into the open.Some modernisers stormed out of the party to form the germ of a viable opposition.
They have, in effect, split Bosnia into at least seven states, as well as a number of rogue baronies.
