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Baronage   Listen
noun
Baronage  n.  
1.
The whole body of barons or peers. "The baronage of the kingdom."
2.
The dignity or rank of a baron.
3.
The land which gives title to a baron. (Obs.)





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... of the Roses (1455-1485), a long internecine feud between kings, lords, and landed gentry, affected the towns but little. The baronage suffered heavily, the middle class lightly. No town ever stood a siege, while Towton was the only battle in which the common soldiers had heavy losses. Warwick made it a practice to spare the commoners, ...
— Life in a Medival City - Illustrated by York in the XVth Century • Edwin Benson
... foreign mercenaries to support his tyranny and permitting to them unbridled excess and violence. As a result of this widespread unpopularity, a rebellion was organized, including almost the whole of the baronage of England, guided by the counsels of Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury, and supported by the citizens of London. The indefiniteness of feudal relations was a constant temptation to kings and other lords to carry their ...
— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney
... Duke William was forced to take further influenced the future of the country by creating the great order of the Baronage, and the history of the early period of England is pretty much that of the struggle of the king with the Baronage and the Church. For William fixed the type of the successful English mediaeval king, of whom Henry ...
— Signs of Change • William Morris
... arraignment he was so little dejected with what might be alleged, that rather he grew troubled with choler, and, in a kind of exasperation, he despised his jury, though of the Order of Knighthood, and of the especial gentry, claiming the privilege of trial by the peers and baronage of the realm, so prevalent was that of his native genius and haughtiness of spirit which accompanied him to the last, and till, without any diminution of change therein, it broke in pieces the cords of his magnanimity; for he ...
— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton
... which may have determined William to replace the temporary eastern fortification by an enlarged and permanent castle, he having then completed the conquest of England and crushed the rebellions of his turbulent baronage. ...
— Memorials of Old London - Volume I • Various


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