earldom

[ US /ˈɝɫdəm/ ]
[ UK /ˈɜːldəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess
  2. the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess
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How To Use earldom In A Sentence

  • Tostig, who had been dispossessed of his earldom, raided the south-east coast before joining the invasion by Harald Hardrada of Norway in northern England.
  • Gruffudd now allied himself with Ælfgār, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of East Anglia by Harold Godwinson and his brothers. Kings and Princes
  • He was granted an earldom in 1944 and remained at his post until 1946.
  • In 1726, when he succeeded to the earldom of Chesterfield on the death of his father, he became a Member of the House of Lords.
  • You might as well have enough issue to fill up all those subsidiary earldoms and baronetcies. Times, Sunday Times
  • King Henry V, the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Derby and Mary Bohun, coheiress of the Earldom of Hereford, was born at Monmouth Castle.
  • In 1055, Earl Siward of Northumbria died whilst his son, Waltheof, was too young to succeed him, and Harold manoeuvred his brother Tostig into the earldom.
  • When Earl Siward of Northumbria died two years later, his earldom went to Harold's brother Tostig.
  • Shortly afterwards Ælfgār was restored to his earldom and a peace treaty concluded. Archive 2009-07-01
  • John without any male heir, and save for his nameless hostage daughter or her children, if any, without any direct lineal heirs for the jarldom and earldom of Orkney and of Caithness respectively. Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
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