Sentences with 'lordships'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lordships and other words derived from it.
• « The second estate, the nobility, was further divided by the elite of titled nobles with hereditary lordships of various kinds (dukes, earls, etc.) and a larger group of lesser nobles who owned land but were not necessarily very wealthy. »
• « The history of the birth of the modern state is the history of the conflicts that erupted over attempts to overcome a decentralised mode of organisation of power, that of feudal lordships. »
• « Political, cultural and economic changes gradually led to the integration of these feudal lordships into an institutional territorial state under the rule of a prince: »