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Meaning of "earldoms"
Earldoms is a noun used to describe territories or domains ruled by an earl, a British noble ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
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- plural of earldom
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Earldoms only pass to direct male descendants.
Your brother gave you the ordering of eight earldoms.
The two earldoms were created with different remainders.
Many of his mistresses and illegitimate children received dukedoms or earldoms.
The two earldoms have since remained united.
My troops lie in wait at the border for the order to enter the earldoms.
Feudal earldoms are very rare.
Stephen prepared for the Angevin invasion by creating a number of additional earldoms.
Earldoms are his only interest.
We shall be witness to the recovery of the earldoms that were seized by France.
A later note in the saga claims that Thorfinn won nine Scottish earldoms.
Clarence also received the earldoms of Warwick and Salisbury.
The earldoms of Findlater and Seafield remained united for the next hundred years.
Thus King David held the earldoms during the lifetime of his wife.
Earldoms of Lincoln.
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The heir apparent to the Earldoms is styled Lord Balgonie.
As an only child she was heir to her father 's earldoms.
List of Earldoms in the peerages of the British Isles.
Wessex was one of the four earldoms of Anglo Danish England.
However, politically, the region remained quartered between the neighboring earldoms and duchies.
Henry later granted Edmund the earldoms of Lancaster and Ferrers.
King Stephen 's reign was marked by the creation of several new earldoms.
List of Earldoms.
The dominant kindred were the Stewarts, who came to control many of the earldoms.
Thereafter, the two earldoms have remained united.
His daughter was Edward 's queen, and two of his sons were elevated to earldoms.
Thereafter, these two earldoms have remained united.
He was also childless and on his death in 1768 the two earldoms separated.
He was succeeded in the earldoms by his younger brother, the eighth Earl.
Earldoms of Gwynedd ( Fictional ).
Three Celtic earldoms.
Thereafter, the Earldoms of Elgin and Kincardine have remained united.
Your eagerness to recover those earldoms has made you insane!
You required earldoms for not intervening in my king 's war efforts?
Uhtred defeats the Scots, and is given the earldoms of Bamburgh and York as a reward.
After 1075 all earldoms were held by Normans, and Englishmen were only occasionally appointed as sheriffs.
Wessex was one of the four earldoms of Anglo-Danish England.
All three of the Earldoms of Hereford, Northampton and of Essex became extinct in 1373.
First creation ==Wessex was one of the four earldoms of Anglo-Danish England.
There are therefore 24 such earldoms whose holder does not hold a higher peerage.
In 1741 he succeeded his father in the earldoms of Elgin and Ailesbury.
From his father Thomas inherited the Earldoms of Lancaster, Leicester, and a Ferrers earldom of Derby.
