How To Use Dukedom In A Sentence
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He was more miserly with titles than any sovereign since Elizabeth I - ensuring, for example, that dukedoms were reserved for the royal family alone.
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They have held onto those gains by force and rewarded their aides with dukedoms and the like.
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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.
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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.
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The marquessate and dukedom became extinct with the death of the 2nd
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This marquisate was merged, for about a century, in the dukedom of Bolton.
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Roger vanquished his enemies and claimed his dukedom.
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He had always planned to marry; it was his duty as heir of the dukedom after all.
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Interestingly, the Duchess never really suffers public fallout within the play for what she has done: Lussurioso simply banishes her: "The Duchess is suspected foully bent;/I'll begin dukedom with her banishment" (5. 1.173-174)
Draft: Women's Negotiations of Moral and Material Status in The Revenger's Tragedy
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There are five dukedoms that are constantly at war with each other.
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He says that his magic is over since he has his dukedom back.
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William had a very shaky claim to the English throne, but what he did have in his favour was a dukedom full of Norman knights, all eager for a share of newly conquered land.
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Or was the Prince of Astrology already above the starry ceiling of the studiolo with Paul of Middleburg, descrying signs from the heavens regarding the health of the duke and dukedom?
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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It is even more disparate and dissociated than any of the other countries of Europe, most of which came into existence by the agglomeration of individual dukedoms, principalities and kingdoms.
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If people grow presuming and self-important over such matters as a dukedom or the Holy See, they will scarcely support the dizziest elevation in life without some suspicion of a strut; and the dizziest elevation is to love and be loved in return.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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To the old title of earl was added dukedoms which were at first reserved for the royal family, marquisates, baronies, and viscountcies. By the end of Henry VI's reign the peerage had grown to about 60.
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You left me for the son of an Earl who ended up being disinherited and penniless and then I'll become a marquis… heir to a very wealthy dukedom.
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When Hartington was killed, in Belgium in September 1944, the dukedom passed to his younger brother, Andrew (whose widow, Deborah Mitford, is now the last survivor of the most astonishing set of English sisters since the Brontës).
Feckless Youth
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All Edward III's sons received dukedoms, and the first non-royal dukedom was created in 1385 for Robert de Vere, favourite of Richard II, who became Duke of Ireland.
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Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Louise was a trendsetter when she married the Marquis of Lorne, heir to the dukedom of Argyll, in 1871.
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You will lose the dukedom if you marry this girl.
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His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.
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Everyone in the dukedom heard of her well-aimed book but not all cheered.
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The walls, plastered with painted murals of epic battles and heroic deeds, were additionally decorated with the colorful banners and standards of several dukedoms.
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His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.
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Italy there were so many forms of government, dukedoms, baronies, marquisates, signories, city republics, each with its own custom regulations, not to speak of each having its own coinage and language, that travelers encountered obstacles almost at every step.
Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
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He was degraded from his dukedom in 1399, and was beheaded in January of the following year for conspiring against Henry IV.
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But it is not this that allows him to trace his ancestors; it is the fact that he has another title, much older than dukedoms and infinitely grander in its simplicity.
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Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Louise was a trendsetter when she married the Marquis of Lorne, heir to the dukedom of Argyll, in 1871.
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The dukedom furthest to the north was Northfield, famous for its horses.
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The ringleaders included the earls of Huntingdon, Rutland and Kent, elevated to dukedoms by Richard, but now demoted and demeaned by Henry.
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‘Europe is a more complicated continent above 20,000 ft than it was in the fifteenth century, with all the dukedoms, kingdoms and little tribes,’ he said.
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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.
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Guidobaldo (1472 – 1508), the legitimate heir to the dukedom, was born months before Bessarion died in Ravenna, en route to France. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Anne, whom he had courted in 1682, made him lord privy seal and promoted him in 1703 to the dukedom made available by the death of the second Villiers duke.
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We have experienced a continual growth in skier numbers over the last five years, bucking the economic woes of the UK, which one day may be the Former UK.William M WilsonGlenmore Outdoor, Aviemore• Why is Simon Hoggart worrying about minor matters such as the West Lothian question Simon Hoggart's week, 21 May when serious issues like what becomes of the Dukedom of Edinburgh remain unresolved?
Letters: The ramifications of Scottish independence
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Perhaps the perplexity, if any, arose from Anne Duchess of Hamilton, the inheritress of the ducal honours by virtue of the patent of 1643, after the deaths of her father and uncle _s.p. m. _, having obtained a _life dukedom_ for her husband,
Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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His library was dukedom large enough, and here on the island he has, besides rich garments, linen stuffs and necessaries, volumes that he prizes above his dukedom.
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The boy was called Joao, and as heir to the dukedom of Braganca, held the title Duke of Barcellos.
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With the support of the King of Naples, his brother raised an army and expelled him from the dukedom with his daughter.
