The countess Johanna ruled the united countships with prudence and courage.
The countships of Flanders and Hainaut were thus united under the same ruler.
Cyprus he was compelled to cede to the king, in return for a large sum of money, the overlordship of the countships of Blois, Chartres and Sancerre, and the viscounty of Chateaudun.
In 1077 he seized the countships of Vitry and Bar-sur-Aube, left vacant by Simon of Valois, who had retired to a monastery.
The style Freiherr (liber dominus) implied originally a dynastic status, and many Freiherren held countships without taking the title of count.
Italy, that he should give up the suzerainty of the countships of Flanders and Artois, that he should surrender to Charles V.
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.
The deputies from the duchy of Burgundy, from the countships of Flanders and Alencon, and several nobles and burghers from other provinces, did not repair to the session.
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.
Under the Romans it corresponded to Maxima Sequanorum, and after having formed part of the kingdom of Burgundy was in the early part of the middle ages split up into the four countships of Portois, Varais, Amons and Escuens.
Renaud, however, succeeded in maintaining until his death his possession of the countships of Burgundy, Vienne and Macon.
His thoughts were still turned to the East, and his main interest in the individual countshipswas as sources of supply for his Holy War.
He had given kindly welcome to his cousin Guy of Burgundy, and had even bestowed on him as a fief the countships of Vernon and Brionne.
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