Earldoms

To appease his uncles, cousins, and younger siblings, King Rham crafted five different duchies instead of the original three set by Phendarm (for Rham’s four brothers and a royal duchy around the capitol) and more than a score of earldoms among them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Upon Rham’s death in 237 OD, the five duchies became three again, though yet more earldoms and baronies propagated with each generation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Viking earldoms also were the Orkneys, Faroes, and Shetlands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Charles of Burgundy, Flanders, and Lorraine, Duke of seven dukedoms, Count of seventeen earldoms, I bid you defiance; and declare war against you in the name of the Confederated Cantons, and such others as shall adhere to them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As a kid I always loved flipping through the historical atlas my Dad had, partic. at the maps of the Holy Roman Empire, and in other eras when the earldoms and duchies outnumbered nationalist entities. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It did not matter to them that he had created duchies and earldoms and marquisates out of air in Louisiana and made himself the duke of Arkansas. ❋ JULIE BAUMGOLD (2005)

Then her mind ran away to baronies and earldoms, and she was lost in the coming glories of the boy whose faults had already nearly engulfed her in his own ruin. ❋ Unknown (2004)

By the eighth of December, Boleyn had his earldom ... earldoms in fact, for he was not only named earl of Ormonde, to which title he had some family claim, but earl of Wiltshire as well. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

‘Her husband left her two earldoms, but it is all that remains of her broad lands, for they have been torn from her by a young earl, because she would not marry him.’ ❋ Unknown (2003)

Under the pressure of the king, the estates passed a law by the terms of which all earldoms, baronies, and other large fiefs should revert to the crown. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Four great earldoms, Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and seven lesser earldoms can be distinguished in this period. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Except on the border, few compact holdings survived; the earldoms, reduced in size, became chiefly honorific. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Connacht, and Ulster, and the English population in the Pale, that relatively urbanized settlement centered on Dublin, and in the outlying towns and earldoms of Leinster and Munster. ❋ Unknown (1999)

“This is one of the smaller earldoms in the land,” Waleran said. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

When the weak but saintly King Edward the Confessor nominally ruled all England the land was divided into four great earldoms, of which ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Thither I soon went, the uncalculating vanity of my parents furnishing me with an outfit and annual establishment which would enable me to indulge at will in the luxury already so dear to my hear -- to vie in profuseness of expenditure with the haughtiest heirs of the wealthiest earldoms in ❋ J. Montgomery Gambrill (N/A)

Howeldin was floated forth into Flanders; and all his best knights there floated forth-right into the earldoms whence they there came. ❋ Layamon (N/A)