The Sforza family was duly invested with the duchy as a fief of the Empire, and the pope was compensated by the addition of Parma and Piacenza to the Patrimony of Saint Peter.
Rhine, and the duchy of East Prussia, [Footnote: Prussia was then an almost purely Slavic state.
France was defeated and Louis XV had to content himself with securing the duchy of Lorraine for his father-in- law.
He himself saw to the enforcement of the decrees in the French Empire, in the kingdom of Italy, in the Confederation of the Rhine, and in the grand-duchy of Warsaw.
It is due to the fierce democrats who revolted against the monarchs of the defunct Holy Alliance, to say that they utterly swept away the gambling-tables in Rhenish-Prussia, and in the Grand Duchy of Baden.
I broke off, near his grave, a small branch of a pine tree to present it to Baron Von Riedesel, Land-marshal of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar.
One of the first provinces to be conquered for Lutheranism was the duchy of Pomerania.
As York marched upon London Charles closed on the fragment of the duchy of Guienne which still remained to the descendants of Eleanor.
Lewis seized Picardy and Artois, the Burgundian duchy and Franche Comté: and strove to gain the rest by forcing on Mary of Burgundy the hand of the Dauphin.
Bourbon was Constable of France, the highest of the French nobles both from his blood and the almost independent power he wielded in his own duchy and in Provence.
Provence, Roussillon, and the Duchy of Burgundy had successively swelled the realm of Lewis the Eleventh.
Only Britanny broke the long stretch of French coast which fronted England; and the steady refusal of Edward the Fourth to suffer Lewis to attack the Duchy showed the English sense of its value.
On the east the house of Anjou lay, restless and ambitious, in Lorraine and Provence, while the house of Burgundy occupied its hereditary duchy and Franche Comté.
But his allies failed him; a marriage of Charles with Anne gave the Duchy irretrievably to the French king; and troubles at home brought Henry to listen to terms of peace on payment of a heavy subsidy.
In June the king sent a thousand archers to Britanny; but the troubles of the Duchy had done more for Henry than Lewis could have done.
Its young and warlike king, the great baron who was still fresh from the glory of Towton, might well resolve to win back the heritage of Eleanor, that Duchy of Guienne which had been lost but some ten years before.
If he held of Lewis his duchy of Burgundy, his domain on the Somme, and Flanders west of the Scheldt, the mass of his dominions was held of the Empire.
Though Forster has inserted these Surfe in his map, somewhere about the duchy of Magdeburg, he gives no explanation or illustration of them in his numerous and learned notes on our royal geographer.
Perhaps the duchy of Mazovia, called Magaw or Mazaw-land in ancient writers.
The Venetians and the German Emperor supported Ferdinand, and the French advanced the claim of a third, a descendant of Lodovico Gonzaga, who had left Mantua a century before, and entered upon the inheritance of the Duchy of Nevers-Rethel.
The marquisate in his time was made a duchy by the Emperor Charles V.
The duke had his residence at a castle in the Duchy of Baden, where, attended by a few noble friends, the partakers of his exile, he was chiefly occupied with the diversions of the chase.
First, the extension of the territories of the Duchy of Warsaw, under the treaty of Schoenbrunn.
Duchy of Lancaster, and also the revenues from the Duchy of Cornwall which go to the heir apparent as Duke of Cornwall.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster nominates to Crown livings belonging to the Duchy, and the Home Secretary to those in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Carlier, who relates the story in his history of the Duchy of Valois, a bull escaped from a farm-yard in the village of Moisy, and gored a man so severely that death ensued.
The Channel Islands were part of the Duchy of Normandy, and their laws are mostly the ducal customs as set forth in an ancient book known as "Le Grand Coustumier.
When William transferred the laws of his old duchyto his new kingdom, it could, at the first, only be by an act of favour that anyone could kill a beast of chase except himself or his retainers.
It was afterwards a stronghold of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and it then became part of theDuchy of Lancaster.
Item, that the duchy of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released and delivered to the king her father'-- [Lets the paper fall.
Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast, Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Maine Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.
Now though this hauen thus bound both shires, yet doth the iurisdiction of the water wholly appertayne to the Duchy of Cornwall, and may therefore bee claymed as a part of that County.
Cassibelane, succeeding his brother Lud in the Kingdome, gaue to his sonne Tennancius, the Duchy of Cornwall.
Once, euery Sheriffe is summoned to enter his account in the Duchy Exchequer, at Lostwithyel, and from thence, referred ouer to the Exchequer above.
Prince, within the Duchy of Cornwall, nor to any waights of the cunnage: and so doth that 1.
The great lords of the duchy with one consent declared against him.
In 1171 he had doubled the revenue of the duchy by lands which the nobles had usurped.
Geoffrey was still carrying on the defence of the duchy against Stephen's son Eustace, and his ally, the King of France; and Henry joined his father's army till peace was made in 1151.
Driven into a corner she adopted the impious expedient of inviting the King of France to make good his claim to Naples and the Duke of Orleans to vindicate his rights over the duchy of Milan.
Elbeuf was gained at an easy rate, and Marechal de La Mothe was buoyed up with the hopes of being accommodated with the Duchy of Cardonne.
Auray, which obtained for him the duchyof Brittany.
We proceeded by the railway to Guingamp, next to St. Brieuc, the principal town of the department, capital of the duchy of Penthièvre.
Regent Anne de Beaujeu, who would have committed some act of spoliation, had not the Chancellor Rochefort saved the duchy by his integrity, declaring to Anne that "a conqueror without right is but an illustrious robber.
Little by little, one town after the other of the Duchy went over to Robert, and Medea da Carpi found herself surrounded in the mountain citadel of Urbania like a scorpion surrounded by flames.
The third crown-land of Bohemia is the Duchy of Silesia, with an area of 1,987 square miles.
But one tenth of the inhabitants of the Duchy of Würtemberg were left alive.
The German rulers, however, were now free to develop schools as they saw fit, and, through their headship of the Church in their principality or duchy or city, to control education therein.
In 1619 the little Duchy of Weimar made the school attendance of all children, six to twelve years of age, compulsory, and the same idea was instituted in Gotha by Duke Ernest (p.
In 1619 the Duchy of Weimar added compulsory education in the vernacular for all children from six to twelve years of age.
Francke's father had been counselor to Duke Ernest of Gotha, who had created for his little duchy the most modern-type school system of the seventeenth century.
His son Louis succeeded in 1191, took part in the fourth crusade, and after the taking of Constantinople was rewarded with the duchy of Nicaea.
A town and health resort of Germany, in the duchy of Brunswick, at the N.
Crecy, and his brother, Charles of Blois, disputed the duchy of Brittany with John of Montfort.
In 1871 the emperor presented him with a large part of the domains of the duchy of Lauenburg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duchy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
