Luynes was the seat of a seigneurie until 1619, when it became a possession of the Comte de Maille.
If the Vezere were in flood, so also was the Dordogne, and both rivers being impassable, the little Seigneurie of Le Peuch Ste.
A year later and he had reason to congratulate himself on having done an act of justice, for Levi assisted him in the purchase of the Seigneurie of Les Eyzies with it feudal stronghold and the flourishing village at its feet.
The venerable former syndic Phillipin for having spoken evil of the Seigneurie had to pay twenty-five crowns.
For instance, there was Madame Secretan, whose family name was taken from the Seigneurie d'Arnex-sur-Orbe.
The Seigneurie gratuitously lodged not only the professors and pastors but also such needy citizens as had been of public service.
Loys possessed a seigneurie in a neighbouring village he took the name of it and called himself Vuarens, which the Bernese made into Warens.
The acquisition of the Seigneuriewas made in 1609.
So, you see, whatever money he has he must leave to my sister, and there's still the Seigneurie for me to keep up.
Well, by the Sark laws, the Seigneurie can't be split up between the members of a family.
On the next day she organised a picnic in Little Sark, and returned to the Seigneurie at an hour which gave her sufficient time to dress for dinner, but no margin for welcoming visitors.
As it is, he has as much as he can do to keep the Seigneurie up.
Since, for some time past, the Seigneurie by common consent had dwelt in a condition of siege, it was only owing to the lucky circumstance of its being Angelique's fete-day that Jean found the gate unguarded.
The Seigneurie of Touraine would one and all be smirched with the disgrace, if members of their order were handed over without a struggle to the vengeance of bucolic bumpkins.
Vaux and the Seigneurie will interfere for madame's protection.
I did not think that even the Seigneurie would seek to shelter behind petticoats!
I will place the matter before the Seigneurieand magistrates of Blois," Gabrielle quietly replied.
The Marquis de Gange had been seen galloping to Montbazon, the baron and many of the Seigneurie also.
The success which crowned this humble retreat of the mendicant led the philanthropic Bishop to found the General Hospital in the Seigneurie de Notre Dame des Anges, beyond St. Roch.
Foreseeing their end near, they wrote, on the 5th May, to the Seigneurie of Berne, to thank them for the testimonials of affection which they had received from them.
See the letter to the brothers Zollieoffre, and the notes relative to the last intercession of the Seigneurie of Berne in behalf of the students of Lausanne, p.
The Seigneurie of Zurich dismissed the warlike theologian.
Maskinonge (also the name of a fish) in which the sound occurs, although not as a termination, is a seigneurie on the north bank of the St Lawrence, of which the part near the river is so low that it is inundated frequently.
It was in vain that he said "I had rather have no power at all and no seigneurie at all [than] not to be able to keep up the rights of it.
Edmond Roy, Assistant Archivist at Ottawa, whose "Histoire de la Seigneurie de Lauzon" and many other works relating to the Province of Quebec entitle him to the rank of its foremost historical scholar.
Near Laruns is the little village of Louvie-Soubiron which takes its name from an ancient seigneurie of the neighbourhood.
A great Place, or Square, has been formed out of the ancient lands of the Seigneurie of Blonay, which belonged to Baron Louis de Blonay, Vice-Roi de Sardaigne.
Early in the 14th century the castle and seigneurie of Beaumont fell into the hands of Jean, younger son of the count of Hainaut.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigneurie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
