Sentence examples for seigneur and from inspiring English sources

She claimed the supreme court judges had not grasped how powerful the seigneur and seneschal still were.

In Lower Canada the rebellion was headed by Louis Joseph Papineau, seigneur and leader of the Parti Patriote.

Clearly, like many others she was in some kind of thrall to her husband, that potent combination of grand seigneur and buccaneer.

The fief holder swore fidelity to the person from whom the fief was held (the lord, dominus, or seigneur) and became his (or her) man.

In 2010 they wrote to Michael Beaumont, who holds the feudal position of Seigneur, and offering him £2m in return for his feudal lease and title.

But the twins, who live in a mock gothic castle on the neighbouring island of Brecqhou, believe it is wrong there are still two unelected figures on Sark's government – the seigneur and the seneschal, the local judge.

Subsequently the area was divided among a number of dukes, counts, seigneurs, and ecclesiastics.

The release of lords and seigneurs and soldiers in return for other captives goes back to the time of the Crusades.

He decided that Britain's best course was to forge an alliance with the elites of the former French colony the seigneurs and the Roman Catholic church.

By all accounts, Gage appeared to be a fair administrator, respecting people's lives and property, although he had a healthy distrust of the landowning seigneurs and of the Roman Catholic clergy, who he viewed as intriguers for the French.

Only 50 men, mostly French-speaking landowning seigneurs and petty nobility, were raised in and around Montreal, and they were sent to Saint-Jean; no Indians came to their aid.