Sentence examples for seigniory from inspiring English sources

The area was part of the French seigniory of La Douville from 1664 to 1763.

Discovered by the French navigator Jacques Cartier in 1535 and named after Maurice Poulin, who was granted a seigniory north of its mouth in 1668, the river first served as a fur-trading route.

As well as the seigniory of Brion, he held the titles of comte de Charny and comte de Buzançois.

The kings and great nobles of Spain, France, and England gave lordships, castles, seigniories, and estates to the order, so that by the mid-12th century the Templars owned properties scattered throughout western Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Holy Land.

Countless petty lords and imperial ministeriales of the southwest succeeded in holding their seigniories as immediate vassals of the empire.