Sentence examples for local noblemen from inspiring English sources

77ce0497-205c-4cb6-b59e-a53406e6e8ca 'S HERTOGENBOSCH, the Netherlands — High on the cathedral in this trim Dutch town, amid a phalanx of stone statues of local noblemen, crusaders, saints and angels, one figure stands out.

The voivodes or their vice-voivodes always heard disputes together with local noblemen who knew local customs.

He also acted as a royal judge, once being ordered by King Æthelred to adjudicate a case between thegns, or local noblemen.

Nevertheless, local noblemen asserted more and more independence from Uroš' authority even in the part of the state that remained Serbian.

She also ran an office in Millbank to organise whores for local noblemen and owned both a mansion in Clerkenwell and a "House of Assignation" where women old and young could discreetly meet their lovers.

Shelley lived in Patcham from 1546, and was an important figure in Brighton's early history: in 1579, he and three other local noblemen were appointed by the Privy Council to form a commission to record and regulate the "ancient customs" of the villagers and to mediate between the fishermen and the farmers, who often had conflicting needs.

The cave, discovered by a hunter in 1868, was visited in 1876 by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, a local nobleman.

Gigino Aceto's great-grandfather, grandfather and father tended the lemon trees for a local nobleman, when the Italian south had a largely feudal economy.

It was built in 1780 by a local nobleman in the heart of a village about 15 minutes' drive from Ajaccio, the Corsican capital.

It is said that Solange, the 9th-century Frankish martyr, was beheaded by a local nobleman for rejecting his advances, but still managed to carry her own head to the local church, whereupon she collapsed and died.

The house in question belongs to the Picard family — Albert, a gamekeeper for the local nobleman, and Jeanne, who cares for their two teen-age children and three foster children from Paris.