 | Stephen Glover - Derbyshire (England) - 1831 - 510 pages
...grant which this king made to his nephew, Hugh de Abrinces, of the Earldom of Chester, which he was to hold as freely by the sword as the king himself held England by the crown. Sir P. Leycester says, some imagine this grant was nothing more than making him and his descendants... | |
 | James Bulkeley - 1837 - 652 pages
...Conferebantur etiam primo multa praedia nnda verbo atque scripto, vel charta, tantum cum doniini gladio, vel as freely by the sword, as the King himself held England by the crown : " ita libere per gladium sicut ipse rex tenebat Angliam per coronam." Sent to subdue the hardy mountaineers... | |
 | Great Britain - 1850 - 362 pages
...Robert, cil de Belesme, Mil chevalers out en son esme ; En Engleterre out treis contez, Quens de Pontif estait clamez, 5880 Si ert conte de Leneimeis, D'Esparlon...part he had taken in the contest with his brother llobert. 5861. DE LUMBARDIE. It was about the time when Gaimar wrote that the emperor' Frederick Barbarossa... | |
 | Geffrei Gaimar - Anglo-Norman poetry - 1850 - 364 pages
...Robert, cil de Belesme, Mil chevalers ont en son esme ; En Engleterre ont treis contez, Quens de Pontif estait clamez, 5880 Si ert conte de Leneimeis, D'Esparlon e de Sessuneis; bis earldom " to hold as freely by thé sword as thé king himself held England by thé crown." The... | |
 | Joseph Brooks Yates - Cheshire (England) - 1856 - 318 pages
...'•Jjripus, son of the Viscount D'Avrauches, of the whole county of Cheshire, to hold to him and his heirs as freely by the Sword, as the king himself held England by the Crown. In the British Museum there exists a Sword generally ascribed to this earl, of which an engraving is... | |
 | William Beamont - History - 1881 - 284 pages
...survey, we find that Hugh Lupus, the Norman Earl of Chester, who had received a grant of the county to hold as freely by the sword as the King himself held his kingdom by the crown, the effect of which was to make the county a palatinate and the Earl a palatine... | |
 | Luke Owen Pike - Political Science - 1894 - 458 pages
...in the time of the Conqueror, because the terms of its grant to Hugh d'Avranches were, as alleged, to hold as freely by the sword as the King himself held England by the Crown. A County Palatine, however, was in a position different from that of other Earldoms, and the principles... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 724 pages
...in 1071, from the Conqueror, Chester and a large tract of surrounding country bordering on Wales, " to hold as freely by the sword as the King himself held the kingdom of England by the Crown." This constituted the fief a county palatine (a palatio: as full... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1916 - 620 pages
...came with him into England. King William made Hugh Lupus Earl Palatine of Chester "to hold the county as freely by the sword, as the King himself held England by the crown." With Hugh Lupus came his nephew, Gilbert Le Veneur, and several of his family who were richly provided... | |
 | David Mills - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...the city as a countypalatine: ‘ita libere ad gladium: sicut ipse Rex tenebat Angliam ad coronam' (‘As freely by the sword as the king himself held England by his crown').” D. Crouch states that ‘in Cheshire, like Normandy, the symbol of lawful power was... | |
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estait clamez, 5880 Si ert conte de Leneimeis, D'Esparlon e de Sessuneis ; his earldom " to hold as freely by the sword as the king himself held England by the crown." The earl stood high in the favour of William Rufus, whose part he had taken in the... 