François de Beauharnais (1665–1746) became intendant of New France (i.e. Canada), where a seigneurie was granted to him in 1707. His nephew, Francis V de Beauharnais...

Alamon, and called Castelnau de Bonnafonds. It was rebuilt by the Lévis family in the fifteenth century, when the seigneurie came into the possession of...

Bugey with Eudes de Villars, seigneur of Montellier, his cousin, for the seigneurie of Montribloud including the parishes of Saint-André-de-Corcy, Civrieux...

Duke of Lennox). Thus, the Lennox and Richmond titles and the French Seigneurie d'Aubigny (effectively the lordship of the manor of the Château d'Aubigny...

great-grandson Baldwin V of Jerusalem. Joscelin III of Edessa held the nominal title Count of Edessa, being in reality the lord of a small seigneurie near...

second time on 1 April 1739. François de Beauharnois thus retired to his lands at Boëche, the old name of the seigneurie of La Chaussée (or la Chaussaye),...

Chalon and Laure de Commercy, a couple who had thirty castles built on the Jurassian part of the county of Burgundy around their new seigneurie of Salins, including...

GWEEZ, French: [ɡ(ɥ)iz]) were titles in the French nobility. Originally a seigneurie, in 1417 Guise was erected into a county for René, a younger son of Louis...

the original seat of its owners. The estate was a dependency of the Seigneurie d'Aubigny-sur-Nère, which was granted in 1423 by King Charles VII of France...

executed by hanging at Tyburn. Mortimer, grandson of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, and Maud de Braose, was born at Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire...

royal recognition. In order to use the title of count, one had to own a seigneurie elevated to county and to comply with the remainder of the grant. These...

delighted with Montmorency, and rewarded him with the elevation of the seigneurie of Damville to a baronnie, he further awarded the vacated office of Admiral...

the Château de Villegénis in 1755. The cost of the remodelling was 430,000 livres. To raise that sum, she sold the estate and seigneurie of Vallery, the...

the subsidiary title of Duke of Vaujours (duc de Vaujours). The Lordship of La Vallière (seigneurie de La Vallière) had been owned by Louise's family...

governorship by his son-in-law, René Gaultier de Varennes. He withdrew from public office to establish his Seigneurie centred on Boucherville on the south shore...

par domenjadure, une seigneurie donnant droit d’entrée aux Etats) qui avaient ce droit d’entrée par les anciennes constitutions de la province". Joseph...

historiques et archéologiques sur la ville et seigneurie de Marly-le-Roi avec notes, armoiries et sceaux... préface de Victorien Sardou. Paris, Imprimerie et...

Lotbinière seigneurie from 1911 to 1954. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 64756". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie...

including the salt mines of Salins-les-Bains (which became the autonomous Seigneurie of Salins). The authority of John the Old was re-established only by the...

1289–1291 Tyre taken by Mamluks, 1291. This lordship, often called the seigneurie de Joscelin, was an unusual creation given to Joscelin III, the nominal...

and Comminges held influence in this region. For the seigneur de Lanssac his seigneurie was close to Bourg on the confluence of the Garonne and Dordogne...

family, the rulers of Lower Navarre. The Seigneurie de Barbuscan bears an uncanny resemblance in name to the Château de Barbazan, of which the Captain Desliges...

Celia Johnson, who was to play the title role, but died suddenly at the Seigneurie of a heart attack on 14 July 1974. The play was later adapted as a television...

Antoine de Buade de; Pontchartrain, Paul Phélypeaux de (1609). Acte par lequel le Sr. de Frontenac vend au seigneur Paul Phélypeaux la seigneurie de Pontchartrain...

seat of the seigneurie of Challain, and its existence dates back at least to the 11th century. The first lord of Challain may be Hilduinus de Calein, mentioned...

in 1205. In 1220, he sold his hereditary lands (iure uxoris), the seigneurie de Joscelin, to the Teutonic Knights and returned to Germany, where he...

act of sale of the Seigneurie de Lafitte in Pau, by Jean de Sabonnières, Seigneur de Juillac, Viguier from Isle-Jourdain, to Jean de Laforcade, Captain...

used the title "Sire of Nesle" due to his family. Difficulties about the seigneurie of Breteuil are present, and the status of Ailly and Maulette in relation...

Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Paris, 1910. Gérard Louise, "La seigneurie de Bellême Xe-XIIe siècles", dans Le Pays bas-normand, 1990, no 3 (199)...

title, "prince de Talmond", which Du Cange noted, in his Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, had become attached to an allodial seigneurie in the Vendée...