Meanings of countship in English

Each duchy, countship, seigniory had to be taken in turn.

In 1038 this countship was purchased by the dukes of Aquitaine and counts of Poitiers.

Before I saw him I own that I had no great faith in his countship.

What sort of countship is it you boast of?

He has hereditary claims to a Spanish countship.

He was without children or near relatives, and several claimants for the vacant countship at once appeared.

He succeeded in getting himself acknowledged in the duchy and countship of Burgundy, which were occupied by French garrisons.

William Clito's tenure of his countship was of but little more than a year, and a year filled with fighting.

The countship of Alencon was raised to a peerage in 1367 and into a dukedom in 1414.

Geoffrey would now succeed to the countship, but he was still a child; and Britanny was virtually incorporated in Henry's continental empire.

Du Guesclin was made marshal of Normandy, and received as a gift the countship of Longueville, confiscated from the King of Navarre.

He took mine, and a word to the door-porter fixed things so that I was whistled up quite naturally when his countship appeared.

Chosroes obtained from Theodosius his own appointment to the Armenian countship, and thus succeeded in uniting both Roman and Persian Armenia under his government.

On Du Guesclin he conferred his own countship of Trastamara, and added to it the lordship of Molino, with the domains appertaining to both.

A poor chance have I of getting a countship if your worship goes on like this, searching for mushrooms at the bottom of the sea.

About 1134 he seized the countship of Narbonne, only restoring it to the Viscountess Ermengarde (d. 1197) in 1143.