Earldom in a sentence

While Pidgen’s costumes were being prepared backstage, he ran through his lines as the musical’s hero, Cockney barrow boy Bill Snibson, who discovers he is the heir to an earldom.

According to Heather Edwards in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, it is probable that Sussex was not annexed by Wessex until 827. citation The earldom of Sussex seems later to have been sometimes combined with that of Kent.

Although the annexation of the earldom by Scotland took place over five centuries ago in 1472, most Orcadians regard themselves as Orcadians first and Scots second.

A modus vivendi had been achieved between Warwick and the king for some months, but the restoration of Henry Percy to Montagu's earldom of Northumberland prevented any chance of full reconciliation.

Atholl's hold on the rich earldom of Strathearn was weak and both he and Robert would have realised that after the earl's death Strathearn would have reverted to the crown.

Cromwell letter to William Lenthall (1649) seeAlso The Earldom of Drogheda was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1661.

Earldom of Aberdeen The second Baronet died without male issue and was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baronet.

Essex's conviction for treason meant that the earldom was forfeit, and his son did not inherit the title.

Finally, on the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, Harold became king, reuniting the earldom of Wessex with the crown.

Godwin himself died in 1053 and although Harold succeeded to his earldom of Wessex, none of his other brothers were earls at this date.

Harold likely entered the relationship in part to secure support in his new earldom.

He entrusted the Earldom of Lade to the former line of earls, in Håkon Eiriksson, with Earl Eiríkr Hákonarson probably dead by this time.

Henry was in no position to confront the powerful Earl of Chester, so Simon approached the older, childless man himself and convinced him to cede him the earldom.

Hereward escaped, but Morcar was captured, deprived of his earldom, and imprisoned.

He was not offered a peerage, having earlier declined an earldom.

However, in March 1470, Edward, trying to win over the Percys' support, reinstated Henry Percy to the earldom.

In 1049 he returned to try to regain his earldom, but this was said to have been opposed by Harold and Beorn, probably because they had been given Sweyn's land in his absence.

In the second, since he had no heirs and if he should die abroad the estates would pass to his sister, Mary, he entailed the lands of the earldom on his first cousin, Hugh Vere.

It is possible that Harold led some of the ships from his earldom that were sent to Sandwich in 1045 against Magnus.

She followed this with an Earldom in 1984 for the former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan not long before his death, reviving a traditional honour for former Prime Ministers.