His family received from the Tudors the earldom of Huntingdon, which, after long dispossession, was regained in our time by a series of events scarcely paralleled in romance.
He had given the great seal of Scotland to one chief of the rebels, a marquisate to another, an earldom to Leslie, who had brought the Presbyterian army across the Tweed.
Have you forgotten that the Earldom of Enderby, failing male heirs, descends to the female line?
In this way, then: We must admit that it is not at all unlikely that our eldest daughter may live to inherit her grandfather's earldom and become Countess of Enderby in her own right.
The earldom of the lord chancellor Clarendon became extinct in the Hyde line by the death of the 4th earl, his last male descendant.
Earldom of Cornwall, and the barons were jealous of him.
The duke's first choice was Sir James le Botiller, who was created Earl of Wiltshire before he succeeded his father in the Earldom of Ormonde, but this nobleman resided chiefly in England, and eventually became a Lancastrian.
It was due to her efforts that her relative, Lord Liverpool, conferred an earldom on Whitworth, though she retained her ducal title throughout her life.
Succeeding to the earldom in 1873, he was obliged to leave the House of Commons, to which he had been elected by the citizens of Bath the same year.
James rewarded him with the Earldomof Devonshire, but as all his children were illegitimate, the titles died with him.
This Yorkist warrior derived from the heiress whom he had married the lordship of Falconbridge; and, after leading the van at Towton, he was rewarded by Edward with the earldom of Kent.
Richard Neville, Ralph's eldest son by his second countess, obtained the hand of the heiress of the Montagues, and with her hand their earldom of Salisbury and their vast possessions.
One branch of the family held the earldom of Desmond; another that of Kildare; and both exercised much influence in the provinces subject to their sway.
At the same time he bestowed on Sir John Howard the dukedom of Norfolk, and to Thomas, eldest son of that pretentious personage, he gave the earldom of Surrey.
After his victory at Hexham, Lord Montagu had been gifted with the earldom of Northumberland.
About the beginning of the fifteenth century the Nevilles attained to the earldom of Westmoreland, and to a point of grandeur unrivaled among the nobles of England.
He was at once confirmed in his title, the Earldom of Tyrconnell was created for O'Donnell, and the Lordship of Enniskillen for Maguire.
The baronry of Offally was enlarged into the earldom of Kildare; the lordship of Carrick into the earldom of Ormond; the title of Desmond was conferred on Maurice Fitz-Thomas Fitzgerald, and that of Louth on the Baron de Bermingham.
The great families of Fitzgerald and Butler obtained their earldoms of Kildare, Desmond, and Ormond, out of this dangerous crisis, but the premier earldom of Ulster disappeared from our history soon afterwards.
On such hard conditions his earldom was confirmed to him, and he was apparently taken into all his former favour.
The colonelcy of an Irish regiment, the earldom of Tyrconnell, and a seat in the secret council or cabinet of the King, were honours conferred on him during the year of James's accession.
The object of his life was to found and to endow the Donegal peerage out of the spoils of Ulster, as richly as Boyle endowed his earldom out of the confiscation of Munster.
As a separate dignity the earldomdates from about 1340, when William V.
Under the Norman and early Plantagenet kings of England the earldom of Cambridge was united with that of Huntingdon, which was held among others by David I.
As she sees Lord Strafford's elevation to an Earldom already announced in the Gazette of the same day, it will be impossible for the Queen to have the question of Lord Fitzwilliam's adverse claim reconsidered.
Lord John Russell presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and has the honour to state that Lord Fitzwilliam writes that he shall feel hurt if the Earldom of Strafford should be given to Lord Strafford.
He became bound to put William in full possession of all his fees in the earldom of Huntingdon or elsewhere, (et in omnibus aliis), under the same conditions as heretofore.
From Robert de Clifford, the second son of the subject of this article, descended the baronial line of Clifford, which, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, was elevated to the earldom of Cumberland.
My jest and my song have borne me through more than my sword and spurs ever did--and have been more to me than English earldom or French county.
It was in search of his young betrothed, the Lady Aveline of Lancaster, the fair young heiress to whom he was to owe the great earldom that was a fair portion for a younger brother even of royalty.
At the end of it, Tyrone was still Tyrone; still the first of Irish subjects; his earldom and his ancestral possessions were still his.
For Con O'Neill as soon as he chose to come in, the Earldom of Tyrone was waiting.
Rothelin excluded from the estates of the earldom the canons who had hitherto formed the first power, and replaced them by four bannerets and four burgesses.
At a short distance from Morat lay one of the strongholds of Popery--the Earldom of Neuchatel.
He married in 1113 Matilda, daughter and heiress of Waltheof, earl of Northumbria, and thus became possessed of the earldom of Huntingdon.
I'll gie ye gold, I'll gie ye money, And I'll gie ye an earldom o land.
He certainly would much prefer to give up to this uncouth laborer the proofs of his parentage which eventually might mean an earldom and a fortune to a village blacksmith.
Cador had nourished this lady long and richly in his earldom of Cornwall.
In quittance of his ransom, and to come forth from prison, Vortigern granted Sussex, Essex, and Middlesex to Hengist as his fief, besides that earldom of Kent which he had held before.
As for Lot, who had the king's sister to wife, Arthur confirmed him in that kingdom of Lyones, which he had held for a great while, and gave him many another earldom besides.
The Premier has placed your lordship's name on the list of peers who are to be raised to a more elevated rank ere the opening of the next session; and your lordship may exchange your coronet of an earldom against that of a marquisate.
As the wife of the heir presumptive to the richest Earldom in the realm, her origin would never be canvassed nor thought of.
Two successive heirs to the earldom of Loudoun fell, and the death of Lord Worsdey affected the succession to three separate peerages, the earldom of Yarborough and the baronies of Fauconberg and Conyers.
This Randle succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father, Hugh Cyveliock, in 1187, and shortly afterwards married the Lady Constance, widow of Geoffry Plantagenet, a younger son of Henry II.
Randle Blundeville, after having held the earldom for the long period of fifty-two years, died at Wallingford on the 26th Oct.
Eadward called on Godwine, in whose earldom Dover was, to punish the townsmen.
For some years the real governor of England was Earl Godwine, who kept his own earldom of Wessex, and managed to procure other smaller earldoms for his sons.
About the same time Ælfgar died, and was succeeded by his son, Eadwine, in the earldomof the Mercians.
Mercia was the only large earldom not under their rule.
He held his earldom by inheritance from his English grandmother, and the barons were willing to forgive his descent from a foreign grandfather when they found him prepared to share their policy.
Norman as he was, he had a claim to the earldom of Leicester through his grandmother, and in =1231= this claim was acknowledged by Henry.
He also held in right of his own wife the earldom of Huntingdon.
Still more powerful was Salisbury's eldest son, who had married the heiress of the Beauchamps, Earls of Warwick, and who held the earldom of Warwick in right of his wife.
A Dane obtained the earldom of the North-humbrians, but the land was barbarous, and its Earls were frequently murdered.
And, look when I am King, claim thou of me The earldom of Hereford and all the movables Whereof the King my brother was possess'd.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earldom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
