History Hesdin was a fief of the counts of Artois, vassals of the Counts of Flanders until 1180.

Shortly after, the Holy Roman Emperor appointed the counts of Schaumburg to become counts of Holstein as well.

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List of counts Early holders of Coimbra who were counts Hermenegildo Gutiérrez (878 920) (Conqueror of Coimbra) Dux Bellorum of Coimbra.

Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and

Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria '

Some earls also had their own forces of housecarls.

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Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria '

It must be lonely without the dukes and counts and princes.

Both the Counts of Loon and Counts of Grandpré bore the arms burely of 10 or and gules (yellow and red alternating stripes).

I don't like crap games with barons and earls

But, above all, we are and always will be counts of Toulouse.

It is, however, commonly believed to have been founded circa 1322 by the Counts of Werdenberg.

Igreja Matriz de Barcelos is a church in Barcelos, Portugal.

Subsequently, the county of Barcelona grew in importance and expanded its territory with successive counts.

Devonshire was succeeded by his eldest son, William Cavendish, who became the fifth Duke of Devonshire.

My name is among the earls who stood around the oak with King John.

Life Isabel Neville was born at Warwick Castle, the seat of the Earls of Warwick.

The Poitiers train station was built in the 1850s, and connected Poitiers to the rest of France.

The counts established strongholds in the region, which was the frontier against the lands of the untamable Frisians.

Edwin and Morcar, the Earls of Mercia and Northumbria declared for him, and even Stigand...

It was first part of the Roman province of Citerior, then of the Tarraconensis province.

The counts had to provide armies, enlisting their milites and endowing them with land in return.

In the 11th century, the town grew around the older castle of the Grafen (Earls) of Calw.

Thomas of Woodstock's eldest daughter, Anne, married into the powerful Stafford family, who were Earls of Stafford.

We were dukes of Aquitaine... counts of Louergue, Gercy, Albi... marquises of Narbonne, Gothea, viscounts of Lautrec.

The kings appointed magnates to be comites (counts), charging them with defense, administration, and the judgment of disputes.

The great nobles of the kingdom, ealdormen Ælfhere and Æthelwine, quarrelled, and civil war almost broke out.

Grigory Orlov and his other three brothers found themselves rewarded with titles, money, swords, and other gifts, but Catherine did not marry Grigory, who proved inept at politics and useless when asked for advice.

These concessions saw the very considerable power of the king parcelled out and retained by leading comites and duces (counts and dukes).

In the Hall of the Krumlov Dukes you ll be acquainted with the Habsburg era when the rulers of Bohemia held sway here through the Eggenberg family from Styria.

The Counts of Hainaut had several historical connections with the counts of Flanders and Holland, to whom they had strong family ties.

These farm houses and fields were given as a gift to the Marienberg Abbey by the counts of Tarasp in the 12th century.

In the Middle Ages it was a possession of the counts of Lavagna, the lords of Carpena and of Luni.

The two earls had rushed to engage the Norwegian forces before King Harold could arrive from the south.

Edward made alliances with the German king, the Counts of Flanders and Guelders, and the Burgundians, who would attack France from the north.

She spent much of her childhood at St Paul's Walden and at Glamis Castle, the Earl's ancestral home in Scotland.

It was bounded on the north by the countship of Maine, on the east by that of Touraine, on the south by that of Poitiers and by the Mauges, on the west by the countship of Nantes.

He represented the old line of the counts of Barcelona through the female line, and was on his father's side descended from the House of Trastamara, the reigning House of Castile.

The counts of Laval developed a textile industry around 1300, and made Laval a significant centre for the French Renaissance a century later.

The Earls, Marquesses, and Dukes of Argyll were for several centuries among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, noble families in Scotland.

The first English Parliament is often considered to be the Model Parliament (held in 1295), which included archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, and representatives of the shires and boroughs.

In the 15th century, Archbishop Rodrigo de Luna moved Santiago de Compostela's Town Council to Padrón for two years, to fend off the influence of the Counts of Altamira.

Alba countered by killing a number of convicted noblemen (including the Counts of Egmont and Hoorn on 6 June), and then by leading an expedition to Groningen.