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Examples of seigneury
seigneury
Two years later the seigneury of the bishops of Coutances over the town ceased forever.
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It then became the centre of the Lordship of Sidon, an important seigneury in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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The apothecary and surgeon, Robert Giffard de Moncel in the Perche, was the first to acquire a Quebec seigneury.
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It was created as a seigneury in Galilee in 1115.
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The heirs sold in 1220 the seigneury to the Teutonic Knights, who used the place near Acre as their fortress in Outremer.
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In France, a seigneury might include one or more manors surrounded by land and villages subject to the noble's prerogatives and disposition.
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- The estate of a seigneur
- Seigniory: the position and authority of a feudal lord
- (seigneur) feudal lord: a man of rank in the ancient regime
- Manorialism or Seigneurialism, an essential ingredient of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a ...
- (SEIGNEUR) [French] indicate a fief's owner (noble or not), and sometimes a noble person (owning fief or not). See also sieur, sire.
