What is "dukedoms"

Usage examples of "dukedoms".

Judged by the number of knights that royal vassals were obligated to provide at the King’s sum­mons, Coucy at this time was the leading untitled barony of the realm, ranking immediately behind the great dukedoms and counties which, except for homage owed to the French King, were virtually indepen­dent lordships.

They ranged from the great dukedoms with revenues of more than 10,000 livres, down through the lord of a minor castle with one or two knights as vassals and an income under 500 livres, to the poor knight at the bottom of the scale who was lord of no one except those of servile birth and whose only fief was a house and a few fields equivalent to a peasant’s holding.

It's located at the intersection of four dukedoms, and it pays taxes to all four of them, but it's not under the jurisdiction of any of them.

She was of noble blood the country abounded in small dukedoms and principalities and of course the marriage was frowned on from both sides.

There are some dukedoms which consist of the big house, and a village street or two and that is.

In those days the country had been wild and the small dukedoms and principalities were constantly at war with each other.

The little principalities and dukedoms were absorbed in, that great Empire.

The descendants of Christian slave-women had died also, if they seemed unusable: some of the best had been given posts in exile, under supervision, often on the frontier against the feeble Christian princedoms and dukedoms of the mountainous North of Spain.