earldom

IPA: ˈɝɫdʌm

Examples of "earldom" in Sentences

He inherited the earldom in 1616.
Heirs in remainder to the earldom.
However the earldom continues on presently.
The Earldom went extinct and the Barony abeyant.
The account of the earldom of Ancram is puzzling.
The mote still carried the dignity of the earldom.
Give his son the earldom not this buffoon of a selfish republican.
The earldom of Northumberland was forfeited by the victorious Yorkists.
He had a warrant from the king for an earldom, but this he forbore to use.
The earldom of Ferrers is the senior earldom in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Shortly afterwards Ælfgār was restored to his earldom and a peace treaty concluded.
For him, the earldom was a private treasure chest, not an estate that fed thousands of people.
To the garter nobody can have slenderer pretensions; his family is scarce older than his earldom, which is of the youngest.
Gruffudd now allied himself with Ælfgār, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of East Anglia by Harold Godwinson and his brothers.
One need only read the what the poet wrote to Southampton to realize that these are not the words of the holder of the oldest title in England to a much younger man whose earldom went back only three generations.
Augustus Hare described it as “an imitation, not a caricature of the best Italian models,” was built for R.S. Holford in 1851-53 on the site of an older house of the same name belonging to the extinct earldom of Dorchester.