Sentence examples for royal control from inspiring English sources

They owed knight service and were under firm royal control.

In Francia Orientalis royal control over the aristocracy was maintained.

The provostship of the merchants was suppressed at Paris, bringing that municipality under direct royal control.

He returned as governor in 1733, however, after the colony came under royal control.

But despite various royal promises to abolish customs injurious to the church, royal control of the church was little affected.

In 1624 the crown finally revoked the charter of the company and placed the colony under royal control.

As king, Pippin limited himself to consolidating royal control in Gaul, thus establishing the base for later Carolingian expansion.

Kings built up the city and developed it for urban life as they extended royal control over villages and outlying settlements.

Also, the royal control of administration slackened under Userkaf, with a corresponding growth of importance of provincial personalities, particularly in Upper Egypt.

The effectiveness of the residencia as a means of royal control over colonial officials was limited by corruption among judges and favouritism in Madrid.

These grants broke up counties and to some extent even duchies, and that was their purpose: to disrupt the secular lords' jurisdictions that had escaped royal control.