The greatest feudatories of these districts, the friendly Count of Foix as well as the hostile Count of Armagnac, and the Breton pretender to the viscounty of Limoges, were to do homage to Edward for all their lands within these bounds.
Joan was consoled by remaining in possession of the county of Penthièvre and the viscounty of Limoges.
In particular the viscounty of Béarn, now held by the Count of Foix, repudiated all allegiance to its English overlord.
There was in this Family the Viscounty of Gooderich, from Gooderich Castle in Herefordshire.
The Viscounty (by creation in 1763) is derived from a Village near Birmingham in Warwickshire.
The Viscountyincludes both Honours; the Title being Viscount Dudley and Ward.
You might suggest the viscounty as contingent on the marriage.
She had never heard of the Bearsdale case, and she did not understand why--in certain circumstances--a viscountywould be more convenient.
But they discussed it eagerly for some minutes before agreeing that, wherever the truth lay, a viscounty could not be considered out of the way for the Tristrams--legitimate and proper Tristrams, be it understood.
Then a knight of Auvergne was chosen, and held the viscounty for two years.
Two syndics of Béarn addressed the King in the name of the Estates to declare that for eight centuries the viscounty had been independent, that the King of France was the protector but not the sovereign of the land.
We now enter the old viscounty of Couserans, of which the civil capital was Massat, and the ecclesiastical was S.
Towards the close of the eleventh century the viscounty of Béarn had enjoyed sovereign rights, admitting allegiance to none.
By these constitutions the inhabitants of the viscounty governed themselves.
In the thirteenth century the viscounty of Béarn was annexed to the county of Foix, and the intervening county of Bigorre fell to Foix in 1425, through the marriage of an heiress.
By decree of Parliament, in 1290, the rights of the church of Le Puy to the charge on the viscounty were confirmed.
Upon this, all your counsel are agreed, your claim to the Viscounty rests.
No, I have no desire to claim a Viscounty which our witty Franklin has made ridiculous with a single shaft of satire from his bristling repertoire.
In the dialect of the Viscounty of Turenne the Puy d'Issolu is pronounced Lo Pê dê Cholu.
The charter that contains this enactment treats of villeinage also, and orders that whoever has a man for sale within the limits of the viscounty shall fix the price, and shall not change it afterwards.
Although the territory was included in the viscounty of Turenne, the Viscount Raymond II.
Avallon (Aballo) was in the middle ages the seat of a viscounty dependent on the duchy of Burgundy, and on the death of Charles the Bold passed under the royal authority.
He gave his support to Grattan and the Whigs during the greater part of his parliamentary career, but in his latter days became identified with the court party and voted for the union, for which his viscounty was a reward.
As Gaston left only daughters, the viscounty passed at his death to the family of Foix, from whom it was transmitted through the houses of Grailly and Albret to the Bourbons, and they, in the person of Henry IV.
Sir Henry had petitioned ineffectually for the revival of the viscounty at an earlier date.
The viscounty in the English peerage died with him; the Irish barony passed to the younger branch of his brother's family, for whom the viscountywas recreated in 1868.
Henry refused this unless the repentant Norman would come to Court, but he offered a barony or viscounty without any condition.
In 1447 he bought the viscounty of Narbonne, and having assisted King Charles VII.
In 1507 Gaston exchanged his viscounty of Narbonne with King Louis XII.
I got from the English and Irish heralds a description and detailed pedigree of the Barony of Barryogue, and claimed respectfully to be reinstated in my ancestral titles, and also to be rewarded with the Viscounty of Ballybarry.
Not to multiply instances, it was upon this person that I fixed my chief reliance for the advancement of my claim to the Barony of Barryogue and the Viscounty which I proposed to get.
You know you stand in for the Viscounty when I succeed my father, or if I get knocked out in this scrap--supposing I should kick without heirs!
So that old ghost of your succession to the Viscounty is laid--and I'm glad of it!
Doctor said; "There is a possible succession to a Viscounty now that Lord Norwater's death is proved fact, but only in case Lady Norwater bears no male child.
For my Uncle Sherbrand, a younger brother of my father's, would come in for the Viscounty when I succeeded the dear old Dad.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "viscounty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
