Rural juries were intimidated by the old baronage and their armed retinues.

A meeting of the whole baronage of Normandy was held at Lillebonne.

The free landholders were expected to attend shire, hundred, and baronage courts.

Then called he all the baronage together to wit what was the best counsel.

Arthur and his baronage departed from the court to make them ready for battle.

To control a feudal baronage was never an easy task.

The worst fears of the baronage were justified.

The baronage suffered heavily, the middle class lightly.

The fourteenth century which nationalized the Commons, isolated the Lords; and the baronage shrank into the peerage.

The pope began by making himself virtually sovereign of Italy and Sicily, overthrowing the German baronage therein.

The baronage more nearly fitted the case.

The baronage lay crushed at his feet.

If the baronage was out of control, government fell to pieces, and anarchy and oppression took its place.

Roger Mortimer, the most formidable of the feudal baronage, was himself one of the agents of this salutary change.

Henry was partial to the Poitevans, and needed a scapegoat to fend off a baronage infuriated by rapacious taxation.

When the contest closed, the feudal baronage was broken up (SS113, 114, 150).