William, fourth earl of Devonshire, although raised to a dukedom by William III.
When Duke Henry died in 1541 he decreed that his lands should be divided equally between his two sons, but as his bequest was contrary to law, it was not carried out, and the dukedom passed almost intact to his elder son, Maurice.
He did homage to King Charles, and he received the sovereignty over most of what was to be called the dukedom of Normandy.
The influence and /prestige/ of the dukedom are recognized everywhere, and soon the soldiers of Normandy are going to take hold of English affairs and master them with unequalled strength.
The dukedom was tempestuous enough at any time, with its Northman party, and its French party, and their jealousies and rivalries.
Renaud, the son of Otho William, who had lost the dukedom of Burgundy, had married a Norman damsel belonging to the royal family of Rolf.
See what a change there was in Normandy since Rolf came, and what a growth in wealth and orderliness the dukedom had made.
The Norman dukedom must not be left without an heir, and this time there must be no question of the honesty of the heir's claim and right to succession.
But he dares to put the base-born lad over the dukedom of Normandy as his own successor.
It was likely that Harold's promise was no [Pg269] secret, and that some echo of it reached from one end of the dukedom to the other.
Now the dukedom that he formed is one of the foremost of its day, able to stand on equal ground with the royal kingdom and duchy of France, for Robert's homage is only the homage of equals and allies.
The Norman barons begged him not to think of such a thing, for in the excited condition of French and Norman affairs nothing could be more imprudent than to leave the dukedom masterless.
It seems strange that, when William represents to us the ideal descendant of the Northmen, the Scandinavian element in his dukedom was the first to oppose him.
There were no more expeditions against Normandy in his time; he sued for a truce, and paid as the price for it, the castle of Tillieres, and so that stronghold came back to its rightful lords again.
Another nephew, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, was soon after named Legate, under whom the ancient Dukedom passed at once into its new position as a province of the papal state.
It was the hope of a heir to the dukedom that preponderated with the former; and, as she was many years older than her husband, a chill of disappointment naturally mingled even with their congratulations.
It does not appear in what way the dukedom of Sora and Arci passed from him, but, before the end of the century, it had been granted by Philip II.
Sforza, who had inherited from his father the dukedom of Bari in Apulia, granted him by King Ferrante, and Lodovico, who obtained an inglorious celebrity under the surname of Il Moro, had been banished to France by the suspicious duke.
But the dukedom of Milan was in danger of dissolution.
Lord Gilla, if my hope may take success, And that I be thereby undoubted king, The Cornish dukedom I allot to you.
There Gilla wounded Cador, Cornish duke, In hope to win the dukedomfor his meed.
It was a merchant from the nearby city of Dem, of the Dukedom of Potzihili.
So I know where the unique exurotr statuette made by Izan Yushwa of Metzva Moosh is hidden, the glass bird that cost the whole dukedom a great tax and brought many bitter tears and hardships from your subjects.
Fu Ho [3] resigned his right to the dukedom in favour of Fang-sze, who put his uncle to death in B.
Henry suppressed the revolt, and dealt with the Saxons with the utmost harshness, treating theirdukedom as conquered territory.
Lothar gave his daughter in marriage, and gave, also, the dukedom of Saxony, in addition to his dukedom of Bavaria.
James Duke of Berwick, one of the most successful and distinguished generals of his age, who rose to the rank of Marshal of France, and obtained a dukedom in Spain, and another in France.
The next morning they were all to set sail for Naples, where the marriage between Prince Ferdinand and Miranda was to take place, after which Prospero would retire to his own dukedom of Milan.
Since you have given me back my dukedom, I will reward you with something equally good, or, at least, show you a wonder which will content you as much as my dukedom does me.
Antonio, not content with having driven his own brother from the dukedom of Milan, now began to suggest treachery to Sebastian, the brother of the King of Naples.
For instance, Otho von Wittelsbach receiving from the emperor, Frederic Barbarossa, the investiture of the dukedom of Bavaria in 1180, painted by Zimmermann.
My dukedom since you have given me again, I will requite you with as good a thing; At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye As much as me my dukedom.
Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat Thou pardon me my wrongs.
He said he had bought with his inheritance as a younger son a dukedom of the richest and loveliest land in the world--somewhere on the Guadaloupe River, not far from San Antonio.
Duc du Maine of the little boy; I do not ask so much; but a place and a dukedom for his son is very little; and it is because he is his son that I prefer him to all the little Dukes of the Court.
A dukedom would have given him rank; and that, joined to his place, and to the wealth which she would have had from her mother, would have made him a man of great importance.
He therefore joined the First Crusade to gratify this double desire, and mortgaged his dukedom of Normandy to Henry to supply him with horses and arms and enable him to support his dignity as a Christian prince at Jerusalem.
His dukedom he never could recover, for his extravagances prevented him from repayment of the loan.
On the 18th of August, his dukedom and ecclesiastical baton were conferred upon the unworthy Lorenzo, who, in the following month, was also invested with the prefecture of Rome.
He next entertained a hope of the dukedom of Milan, by Clement's sanction; but he had played away his honour in a losing game: despised by himself and his employers, the prestige of success passed from his arms.
On the 18th of September he was invested with the dukedom of Urbino in reversion, when he received the homage of his future subjects with a ceremonial which we have described at p.
Having distinguished himself by his military genius during this campaign Henry left Italy with the German troops, and was appointed by the emperor as his successor in the dukedom of Saxony.
Thy dukedom I resign, and do entreat Thou pardon me my wrongs.
My dukedom since you have given me again, I will requite you with as good a thing; At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye 170 As much as me my dukedom.
A wife whom he had long before taken, had borne him a son, named William, to whom he left his dukedomin 932.
All of his warriors who chose to follow his example, and embrace the Christian faith, received from him grants of land, to be held of him on the same terms as those by which he held the dukedom from the king.
Young Boleslav, a nephew of Boleslav the Pious, showed himself eager to assert his claims to the Dukedom of Bohemia.
But it was long before the German rulers were able to realise that they could gain any help, in turn, from the rising dukedom of Bohemia.
Otto at once appealed to Lothar, who asserted his right, as Emperor, to decide the succession to the Dukedom of Bohemia.
The death of Boleslav the Pious, and the accession to the dukedom of his weak and profligate son, Boleslav the Third, gave a new opportunity both to native and foreign intrigues.
Bohemia, which included not only Silesia and the Lausitz, but also the dukedom of Austria.
Apart from the claim given to the Margrave of Meissen by the choice of the nobles, there were two rival claimants to the dukedom of Austria; Margaret the widow of the Emperor Henry VI.
Wenceslaus saw his opportunity in this confusion; and, as Vladislav was now dead, the King persuaded young Ottakar to seize the dukedom of Austria for himself.
The ruin of the Moravian dukedom speedily followed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dukedom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
