In the year of the Lord 1403, on the day of St. Pontianus the Martyr, was invested Conrad, a Convert; he was a tailor and was born in the Countship of Marck.
Likewise he founded and in a special way provided for the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin in the Wood near Northorn, in the Countship of Benthem, and he procured that some of the Clerks who lived with him should be invested there.
He was the tailor, and was born in Scyrebeke in the Countship of Marck, and had lived at Deventer under Florentius, which devout Father sent him to Mount St. Agnes when he had learned the tailor's art.
William the Headstrong, thus bringing the countship back into the family of its former lords.
In the 10th century these four countships were united to form a whole, which came to be called the countship of Burgundy, and belonged at that time to the family of the counts of Macon.
The latter took over the administration of the countship in spite of strong opposition from the nobles of the country, but their leader, John of Chalon-Arlay, was compelled to make his submission.
The countship returned to Margaret at the death of Odo IV.
To fill these vacancies, Philip the Fair raised the duchies of Brittany and Anjou and the countship of Artois to the rank of peerages of France.
Alix, daughter of Beatrix and of Otto of Meran, and heiress to the countship of Burgundy, married Hugh of Chalon, son of John the Ancient or the Wise (d.
On the death of Beatrix (1185) the countship of Burgundy passed to Otto I.
Jeanne, however, continued to govern her countship when Philip her husband became king of France (Philip V.
When the countship of Mansfeld was sequestrated, Hettstedt came into the possession of Saxony, passing to Prussia in 1815.
Seeing his danger Rudolph ceded the countship to Herbert, and Charles was relegated to his prison until his death in 929.
The duke of Burgundy, heir through his wife to the countship of Flanders, wanted to crush the democratic risings among the Flemings.
The countship of Berry was suppressed (926) by Rudolph, king of the Franks (fl.
After the Montforts, the countship of Laval passed by inheritance to the families of Rieux and Sainte Maure, to the Colignys, and finally to the La Tremoilles, who held it until the Revolution.
Count of Champagne, the rights of suzerainty in the countships of Chartres, Blois, and Sancerre, and the viscountship of Chateaudun, and purchased the fertile countship of Macon from its possessor.
Du Guesclin to reduce to submission the countship of Rennes, his native land, and he showed some temper because the constable not only did not succeed, but advised him to make peace with the Duke of Brittany and his party.
Du Guesclin was made marshal of Normandy, and received as a gift the countship of Longueville, confiscated from the King of Navarre.
The King of Navarre used much the same language in his countship of Evreux.
Thus the kings in granting a duchy or countship as an apanage to their brothers or sons used the phrase in comitatum et baroniam.
Some months afterwards he succeeded to his father, who gave up the countship when he definitively went to the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Brissac was made a countship in 1560 for Charles, the eldest, who was grandmaster of artillery, and governor of Piedmont and of Picardy.
His son, Jean de Chabannes, left three heiresses, of whom the second left a daughter who brought the countship to Philippe de Boulainvilliers, by whose heirs it was sold in 1554 to the dukes of Montmorency.
The countship passed, through heiresses, to the houses of Fayel and Nanteuil, and in the 15th century was acquired by Antoine de Chabannes (d.
In 1632 the countship was confiscated by Louis XIII.
Dammartin is historically important as the seat of a countship of which the holders played a considerable part in French history.
Then was the matter broached to Pietro; then Did Pietro make demand and get response That in the Countship was a truth, but in The counting up of the Count's cash, a lie.
This had long given its name to thecountship of Bitsch, which was originally in the possession of the dukes of Lorraine.
In 1286 Joan sold the countship of Chartres to the king of France.
Zweibrucken, whose line became extinct in 1569, when the countship reverted to Lorraine.
Great, who united thecountship of Troyes with his domains in 1128.
Overwhelmed with debt, he had sold the countship of Blois to Louis I.
In 1498 the countship of Blois was united with the crown by the accession of King Louis XII.
Though of ancient origin, Blois is first distinctly mentioned by Gregory of Tours in the 6th century, and was not of any importance till the 9th century, when it became the seat of a powerful countship (see below).
The district was subjugated and Christianized by Charlemagne in 804, and ranked as a separate Gau, included perhaps in the countship of Stade, or Comitalus utriusque ripae.
During the Carolingian period Boulogne was the chief town of a countship that was for long the subject of dispute between Flanders and Ponthieu.
To avoid doing homage to Mary of Burgundy, suzerain of the Boulonnais and countess of Artois, Louis XI declared the countship of Boulogne to be held in fee of Our Lady of Boulogne.
A little farther towers Carpegna, where one branch of the Montefeltro house maintained a countship through seven centuries, and only sold their fief to Rome in 1815.
These counts of Champagne kept up their state at Troyes until the fourteenth century, when the countship became merged in the French crown.
As one must rule and the rest obey, we have for this Indiction conferred the Countship of your City on A B, that he may hear your causes and give effect to our orders.
The affairs of his own Countship were in great confusion.
In fact, I would much prefer that his Countship should scorch on to Liverpool or Manchester, or wherever he happens to be going.
On his succession to the countship the Hollanders were willing to receive him, but the Zeelanders were hostile; and a long struggle ensued before his authority was generally recognized.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "countship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
