Sentence examples for lay nobility from inspiring English sources

A reorganized district administration reduced the power of the lay nobility.

The Holy See, by its great appeal to the militant lay nobility of western Europe, thus won the initiative over the empire.

By investing churchmen in Germany with lands, he laid down a long-lasting framework of support for the crown against the lay nobility.

He no longer inspired fear in his opponents the Saxon and south German lay nobility, the alliance between Lorraine and Tuscany, the increasingly independent papacy, and the adventure-seeking Normans.

Even among the lay nobility of medieval England, grain provided 65 70% of calories in the early 14th century, though a generous provision of meat and fish was included, and their consumption of meat increased in the aftermath of the Black Death as well.

In view of the weakening of the rulers, the landowners, both ecclesiastical (the church in the 12th century) and lay (the nobility in the 13th century), succeeded in obtaining so-called immunities i.e., exemptions for their estates from taxes, services, and the legal jurisdiction of the state.

By contrast, the drolly philosophical title-track describes Adam's life as free from worry  or fear, but wonders where, without danger and temptation, lies his nobility?

This brutal world was divided between the nobility, lay and religious, and the common herd, who bowed when their superiors passed.

Louis rebuilt his political network by holding frequent assemblies of the lay and ecclesiastical nobility beginning in 835 and by presiding at ceremonies and ritual activities.

He was, for instance, the first Brutus I'd ever seen to suggest that behind the character's surface nobility lay a self-regarding vanity.

The outcome seemed foreordained, yet a few hours later the flower of French nobility lay dead on the field, surrounded, in the words of an English eyewitness, by "the masses, the mounds and the heaps of the slain".