Talk:Flanders (countship)
Talk:Flanders (countship) It's ridiculous how an article referencing ... What do you think of the historical countship of Flanders, as insisted upon by User ...
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List of states in the Holy Roman Empire
... list are: Abp. Archbishopric Bp. Bishopric Co. Countship (sometimes also called county) D. Duchy Ldg ... of Württemberg in 1803 Aalst (imperial Flanders) Countship out of the Brabantgau imperial fief to countship Flanders (under the French crown) from 1056/1059 Aarberg Countship Abensberg Countship Adendorf Countship from 1711Originally a lordship; ...
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User talk:Wetman
... look, and will add a comment shortly. Countship indeed! It sounds like a toadying honorific "Your most illustrious Countship". However, If you want to laugh or ... PS: My spellchecker has just thrown out "Countship" - an American word perhaps? I agree with ... is a far more standard term than countship, and this user can safely be reverted. Countship doesn't even appear in the ...
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Anjou
... first of pagus, then of comitatus, or countship of Anjou. This countship, the extent of which seems to have ... was bounded on the north by the countship of Maine, on the east by that ... the Mauges, on the west by the countship of Nantes. From the outset of the ... Hugh the Abbot succeeded him in the countship of Anjou as in most of ...
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County of Burgundy
... cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. The countship passed under the control of the Holy ... salt mines assured the prosperity of the countship, and its towns preserved their freedom and ... then on called "Franche-Comté," the "free countship." Emperor Frederick Barbarossa re-established imperial influence ... his younger son Otto I , received the countship of Burgundy and assumed the rare (unique ... with the greater feudal families of the countship, notably with the family of Chalon, ...
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User talk:Fastifex
... Fastifex 07:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC) "Countship" (sic) Are you going to insert this ... well advised to read. Just google for countship and a whole world will open for ... You have moved County of burgundy to Countship of Burgundy. I think perhaps this is ... and America county is more redily understood. Countship now being considered antiquated and near obsolete ... can be confusing, but in this case Countship is an English word that would ...
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Talk:County of Foix
... Wetman 02:09, 1 August 2005 (UTC) "Countship" of Foix! If "countship of Foix" appears in any reputable work ... solecism. Where does one read of the "countship" of Foix? User:Fastifex is rapidly changinmg all instances of "county" to "countship". --Wetman 13:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC) I agree with Wetman, countship does not appear to be standard ...
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Count
... warband, but settled in a locality, a countship, his main rival for power being the ... special services rendered, without an actual principality (countship), just a title, with or without a ... where Earl applies) Earldom for an Earl/ Countship or county for a count, but the ... peerages were always duchies and the medieval countship-peerages had died out, or were held ... a principality that can be rendered as countship: Gefürsteter Graf, Landgraf, Reichsgraf; compare Markgraf, ...
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Dammartin-en-Goële
... historically important as the seat of a countship of which the holders played a considerable ... Jean de Trie , in whose line the countship was reunited after the death of Philip Hurepel's son Alberic. The countship passed, through heiresses, to the houses of ... second left a daughter who brought the countship to Philippe de Boulainvilliers , by whose heirs ... the dukes of Montmorency. In 1632 the countship was confiscated by Louis XIII and ...
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Counts and dukes of Penthièvre
... In the 11th and 12th centuries the countship of Penthièvre in Brittany (now in the ... of this dynasty, was dispossessed of the countship in 1235 by the Duke of Brittany ... of Brittany, Yolande's brother, seized the countship on her death in 1272. In 1337 ... II, Duke of Brittany, in 1465. The countship, which was restored to Sebastian of Luxemburg ...
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