Sentence examples for royal domain from inspiring English sources

The house and its acres are successors of what was, from 1100 until 1631, a royal domain and hunting ground.

In 1214 Philip II Augustus of France annexed Valois to the royal domain.

The Chambre des Comptes also directed much of the administration of the royal domain (the crown lands).

As the reign ended, only Brittany, Flanders, Champagne, Burgundy, and Toulouse, among principalities later annexed, lay outside the royal domain.

As a result, the Zhou royal domain and its influence shrank when Pingwang moved his court to the east.

Two well-known ordinances, in 1254 and 1256, carefully outlined the duties and responsibilities of officials in the royal domain, and Louis closely supervised their activities.

Ordinary revenues expanded apace with the royal domains; taxes ceased to be exceptional.

For authenticity, the builders decided to use only oak from France, and have had to trek through forests as far away as the royal domains of Versailles and Fontainebleau.

He opposed the projected resumption of war on the Huguenots in favour of negotiation, and he also opposed the suggested alienation, or sale, of royal domains by Henry III as damaging to the monarchy.

Louis continued his father's pacification program by building the prestige of the kingship through an administrative government based on trustworthy men of humble origin and by consolidating his rule over his royal domains rather than by adding new acquisitions.

Since Greece was overpopulated at the beginning of Seleucid rule, it was not difficult to persuade colonists to come to the east, especially when they were given plots of land (cleroii) from royal domains that they could pass on to their descendants; if they had no descendants, the land would revert to the king.