dukedom

How To Use dukedom In A Sentence

• He was more miserly with titles than any sovereign since Elizabeth I - ensuring, for example, that dukedoms were reserved for the royal family alone.
• They have held onto those gains by force and rewarded their aides with dukedoms and the like.
• The first British marquessate was created at the same time as the first non-royal dukedom, and for the same person, Robert DeVere, in 1385.
• After the execution of her brother the earl of Warwick in 1499, she was sole heiress to the dukedom of Clarence and the earldoms of Salisbury and of Warwick, and was granted the title countess of Salisbury in 1513.
• The marquessate and dukedom became extinct with the death of the 2nd Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• He had a son, the Earl of Warwick, who didn't inherit the dukedom because of the attainder, and was himself later found guilty of treason and executed under Henry VII.
• The only prime ministers who really retired but never got a peerage were the great Liberal leader William Gladstone, who declined an earldom, and Churchill, who declined a dukedom.
• As time went by the dukedom was enlarged, and the inhabitants became less and less Viking, and more Frankish in their way of life until eventually they became the people now known as the Normans.
• This marquisate was merged, for about a century, in the dukedom of Bolton.
• Roger vanquished his enemies and claimed his dukedom.