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Example sentences for "baronage"

Lexicographically close words:
barograph; barometer; barometers; barometric; barometrical; barones; baronesses; baronet; baronetage; baronetcy
  1. It is only in certain backward parts of Europe that the terms feudal and baronage in any technical sense can be used of the nobility of the 15th century.

  2. Only one man of distinction acted with the spirit which might have been expected from the warlike baronage of England, and that was a churchman.

  3. The whole of the baronage appealed against the sentence, but the king was inexorable.

  4. Gathering together the English shire levies and those of the baronage who were faithful to him, the king marched against Robert of Belesme and his associates.

  5. The baronage were so well content with the practical independence which they enjoyed during the civil war, that they had no desire to see it end.

  6. He had irritated the baronage by divorcing his wife Hawise, the heiress of the great earldom of Gloucester, without any cause or reason.

  7. His elder brother Robert, whom the baronage would have preferred, because of his slackness and easy ways, was still far away, on his return journey from the Crusade.

  8. The baronage hated his strong hand and his strict enforcement of the law.

  9. So William ruled Normandy for a space, and Robert went off with half the baronage of Western Christendom, to deliver the Holy Sepulchre from the Turks, and to set up a Christian kingdom in Palestine.

  10. The baronage were full of rage and disgust, for the conquest of Sicily was no concern of England's, but a matter of private spite on the part of the papacy.

  11. He was only the king of a faction, the nominee of the party which had once supported the Lords Appellant; if one half of the baronage was friendly to him for that reason, the other half was always estranged from him.

  12. When it became known, the baronage and the people were alike disgusted at the king's grovelling submission.

  13. The baronage soon took the measure of Stephen's abilities, and saw that the time had come for them to make a bold strike for that anarchical feudal independence which was their dream.

  14. Baronage and people alike were moved to wrath by seeing the king hand over the governance of the realm to his favourite.

  15. This time the fighting was all on the continent; the English baronage were too much cowed to stir.

  16. But it ends with a most peculiar and important clause, which shows how little the baronage trusted the king.

  17. Edward's dealings with the baronage are even more important in the history of the English constitution than his contest with the clerical body.

  18. But Henry had no mind to break through his general policy by allowing a feudal baronage to plant themselves by force of arms in Ireland, as they had in earlier days settled themselves in northern England and on the Welsh border.

  19. But feudalism had no roots on English soil; it was forced to borrow Brabançons, and to work by means alien to the whole feudal tradition and system, and Henry had easily overthrown the baronage by the help of the Church.

  20. The work of dismantling dangerous fortresses which he had begun twenty years before was at last completed, and no armed revolt of the feudal baronage was ever again possible in England.

  21. The towns and trading classes were steadfast in loyalty, and the baronage was again driven, as it had been before, to depend on foreign mercenaries.

  22. The Church was openly opposed to the rule of the House of Anjou; the Norman baronage on either side of the water inherited a long tradition of hatred to the Angevin.

  23. The worst fears of the baronage were justified.

  24. But the monarchy was too strong for him and his really advanced projects, which by no means squared with the hopes of the Baronage in general: and when Prince Edward, afterwards Edward I.

  25. Scotch Baronage for the feudal suzerainty of that kingdom, and the centuries of animosity between the two countries which that struggle drew on.

  26. Arthur and his baronage being of one mind together, the king wrote certain letters to Rome, and sealed them with his ring.

  27. Arthur and his baronage departed from the court to make them ready for battle.

  28. In the twelfth century however the strong tendency to national unity told heavily against judicial inequality, and the barbarous injustice of the foreign system became too apparent even for the baronage or the Church to uphold it.

  29. The king's peace shielded them from that terrible oppression of the mediæval baronage which made liberty with the cities of Germany a matter of life or death.

  30. The huge embattled piles which flung their dark shadows over the streets of Florence tell of the ceaseless war between baronage and people.

  31. The donjons were all down, or in good keeping; and, from end to end and in all its breadth England was at peace, and none of the baronage were so daring as to resist the king and the law.

  32. Now some of the baronage and clergy did send messengers into Anjou to invite the Empress Matilda into England, and to give her assurance good that they would place her upon the throne of her late father.

  33. He would have challenged the duke, and at once fixed a day for the battle, but he waited till his great baronage should come together: and they came in haste on receiving the summons.

  34. By advice of his baronage he took a wife[1] of high lineage in Flanders, the daughter of count Baldwin, and the granddaughter of Robert king of France, being the daughter of his daughter Constance.

  35. In England, although civil war was raging, and the baronage were energetically slaughtering one another, the mass of the people seem for the most part to have gone unscathed.

  36. In England the older baronage were all but utterly swept away by the Wars of the Roses, only a few here and there surviving its carnage.

  37. The baronage of the Pale raided upon the rest of the country, and the rest of the country raided upon the Pale.

  38. Being not far from Nottingham, it was frequently visited by noble and royal personages, and was often the scene of the splendid and ostentatious hospitality of the old baronage of England.

  39. Ranke: The History of England in the Seventeenth Century; Warwick's Memoirs; Doyle's Official Baronage of England.

  40. This letter was signed by the lay baronage only, not by the bishops.

  41. Fulk told him that he was sent by the baronage assembled in arms at a tournament, and warned him that if he delayed to depart till the third day he and all his "would be cut to pieces.

  42. The original baronage continued predominant until the Wars of the Roses (S316) destroyed so many of the ancient nobility that, as Lord Beaconsfield says, "A Norman baron was almost as rare a being in England then as a wolf is now.

  43. Notwithstanding William's oppression of both Church and people, his reign checked the revolt of the baronage and prevented the kingdom from falling into anarchy like that existing in France.

  44. For if it were not for chivalry little would our baronage avail, for 'tis the knights defend Holy Church, and do justice against those who would mishandle us; and I will not withhold me from their praise.

  45. If the baronage was faithful to the crown, or if the crown held the baronage under a strong control, the realm enjoyed good government and the nation bore with comparatively little suffering the burdens which were always heavy.

  46. At a council of the kingdom held at Oxford on December 7, the justiciar presented a demand of the king that the baronage should unite to send him at their expense three hundred knights for a year's service with him abroad.

  47. This was a blow at the hold of the feudal baronage on the office, and a step in its transformation into a subordinate executive office, which was rapidly going on during the reign.

  48. If the baronage was out of control, government fell to pieces, and anarchy and oppression took its place.

  49. The complete transformation of the feudal baronage into a modern nobility, and the rise on the ruins of the feudal state of clearly defined, legislative, judicial, and administrative systems have obscured the line of direct descent.

  50. To control a feudal baronage was never an easy task.

  51. Certainly the old baronage could easily find grounds enough of complaint in the constitutional policy steadily followed by the government of the first two Angevin kings.

  52. Battles were won in the field, castles and towns were taken, leaders among the Norman baronage were slain, and the country was overrun.

  53. This sufficiently appears by the many quotations from Macfarlane's collections, both in the Peerage and Baronage of Scotland.

  54. The most important result of the Wars of the Roses was the ruin of the baronage of England.

  55. Now that once proud and powerful baronage were ruined, and their confiscated estates had gone to increase the influence and patronage of the king.

  56. The Baronage of England, by William Dugdale.

  57. The Official Baronage of England, by James E.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baronage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aristocracy; chivalry; elect; elite; nobility; peerage; royalty