Earldoms in a sentence

Both men were also named to earldoms – fitzOsbern to Hereford (or Wessex) and Odo to Kent.

Eventually the connection between an earl and a shire disappeared, so that in the present day a number of earldoms take their names from towns, mountains, or simply surnames.

He did not create new earls or earldoms.

Hicks (1980), p. 98. Clarence also received the earldoms of Warwick and Salisbury.

In an early example of local government reform, the Anglo-Saxon ealdormanries were abolished by the Danish kings and replaced with a smaller number of larger earldoms.

In general, after initial reliance on his Scandinavian followers in the first years of his reign, Cnut allowed those Anglo-Saxon families of the existing English nobility who had earned his trust to assume rulership of his Earldoms.

In that case he would have been able to claim the earldoms of Leicester and Warwick.

Later reign Until the mid-1050s Edward was able to structure his earldoms so as to prevent the Godwins becoming dominant.

Mortimer ed., maps between pages 116 and 117 The wealth of Edward's lands exceeded that of the greatest earls, but they were scattered among the southern earldoms.

Nevertheless, some consider that the earldoms named after counties (or county towns) retain more prestige.

Other supporters of the Empress were restored in their former strongholds, such as Bishop Nigel of Ely, and others still received new earldoms in the west of England.

Other supporters of the Empress were restored in their former strongholds, such as Bishop Nigel of Ely, and still others received new earldoms in the west of England.

Stephen portrayed himself as the natural successor to Henry I's policies, and reconfirmed the existing seven earldoms in the kingdom on their existing holders.

The king was furious, but he was forced to give way and restore Godwin and Harold to their earldoms, while Robert of Jumièges and other Frenchmen fled, fearing Godwin's vengeance.

This meant that Robert's holdings would have been the relatively impoverished earldoms of Caithness and Atholl and amounted to no more than what was in the Earl Walter's possession in the years between 1406 and 1416.

Under Edward the Confessor earldoms like Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria—names that represented earlier independent kingdoms—were much larger than any shire.