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This position, however, was never accepted by the English baronage.

What good would it do them to agree with us if we can't hold the baronage?

But most of the rest of the expected baronage have arrived.

Soon most of the peninsular baronage was behind the rebel leaders.

The truth seems to be that he was irritated by the suspicion with which John regarded the new baronage.

He was, however, an authoritative prince and this put him at odds with the baronage of his realm.

This alarmed the baronage, which comprised only about seventy to eighty families.

This marriage helped patch up relations with the baronage.

There are among the baronage some families who use several personal variations among their many members and branches.

Possession of a barony was thus the common factor of the baronage.

Like the baronage, the cities were deprived of rights of penal justice.

In Richard's view, this put a dangerous amount of power in the hands of the baronage.

For the baronage and some representatives of Parliament."

In spite of this, old-fashioned decentralization was not the primary path the English baronage followed.

Indeed the peerage was anciently termed the baronage before the higher degrees were created.

"In fact the appointment carries a titular baronage, not that you need it, but it's another reason why we're getting so popular lately."

"If two were meeting here in secret while the baronage was at worship, then it was surely for mischief.

He published the "Official Baronage of England" in 1886.

A position at the papal court brought influence within the city and in a two-way process popes created cardinals from among the Roman baronage.

And those three, one royal, two from the ranks of the baronage, the only women in this precinct among the entire nobility of the land.

Anyway, since I have no children and there are no other males in the family, the line and the baronage die with me."

The modern peerage system is a continuation and renaming of the baronage which existed in feudal times.

King John, who was disliked by the baronage, visited Sleaford in 1216, the day after he had lost his baggage train.

(7) Led by the baronage, England's aristocracy fought to control the growth of the Crown.

In the Plantagenet domains the Capetians supported the baronage.