Sentence examples for seigneury from inspiring English sources
noun
Alternative form of seigneurie
The family du Plessis de Richelieu was of insignificant feudal origins but, by intermarriage with the legal and administrative classes, rose to some prominence and acquired the seigneury of Richelieu in Poitou.
Henri, the eldest son, was heir to the seigneury of Richelieu; and Alphonse, the second son, had become a Carthusian monk; so the obligation fell on Armand-Jean, who was a student.
Guy de Montfort, brother of Simon de Montfort, handed down the seigneury in the 13th century; but from the mid-16th century the town embraced the Protestant Reformation, and historians even styled it a Protestant republic.
The Last Cavalier was meant to conclude a historical epic that sequentially bridged the centuries, starting with the feudal seigneury in Queen Margot, proceeding through the absolutism of Louis XIV in the Musketeers, at last reaching modernity and its rancorous, outcast individualism in Monte Cristo.
Grants of land, called seigneuries, with frontages on the St . Lawrence were apportioned to proprietors, who then allotted holdings to small farmers, or habitants.
Like most nobles, wealthy French non-nobles were landlords and even owners of seigneuries, which were bought and sold before 1789 like any other commodity.
The son of a tax farmer, Babeuf worked in the 1780s as a feudal law expert, maintaining records of dues owed and paid by the peasants to the local seigneuries.
Most of the population lived in the three towns (Montreal, Quebec, and Trois Rivières) and in seigneuries along the banks of the St .Lawrence between Quebec and Montreal.
