baronage

1 The warfare of people like Lot had been suppressed, but not the unbiddable baronage who lived like gangsters on their own estates.

2 John had learned that monarchy, as reconstructed by his father, and baronage were natural enemies.

约翰已经看出由他父亲重建的君主统治跟贵族阶层是天然仇敌。

3 A reduction in the numbers of the baronage however might have been more than compensated by the concentration of great estates in the hands of the houses that survived.

4 The land seemed for a time to be settling down, and indeed the baronage were to such a large extent English in both blood and feeling, that there was no insuperable difficulty in conciliating them.

5 Warwick Warwick's services were munificently rewarded by a grant of vast estates from the confiscated lands of the Lancastrian baronage, and by his elevation to the highest posts in the service of the State.

6 Four knights were to be chosen by the King's lesser freeholders in each county to attend this Parliament, and the baronage was to be represented by twelve commissioners.

7 Broken as was the strength of the baronage, there still remained lords whom the new monarch watched with a jealous solicitude.

8 He not only obtained it, but to the great indignation of the English baronage married the king’s sister Eleanor in 1238.

9 But the misgovernment was now that of the baronage or of a main part of the baronage itself in actual conjunction with the Crown.

10 The sovereign again stood alone in the face of the baronage.

11 Among the baronage hardly a man would commit himself to treason.

12 If he had not gained the formal sanction of the Norman baronage to his expedition, he had won over each individual Norman baron to serve him as a volunteer.

13 But the marriage proved childless, and the empress Matilda was designated as her father’s successor, the English baronage being compelled to do her homage both in 1126, and again, after the Angevin marriage, in 1131.

14 The old baronage was thus hardly crushed before a new aristocracy took its place.

15 The baronage were angry and suspicious, for many of their customary rights rested on immemorial and unchartered antiquity, while others were usurpations from the weakness of John or Henry III.

16 The huge embattled piles which flung their dark shadows over the streets of Florence tell of the ceaseless war between baronage and people.

17 His greatest fault in the eyes of his subjects was his love of foreigners; since John had lost Normandy the English baronage had become as national in spirit as the commons.

18 His rank and territorial influence made him the natural leader of the western baronage.

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

20 The Tudors had watched the baronage with jealousy, but they had made no attempt to degrade it.

1 男爵

baronial baron Frhr. Freiherr

2 贵族

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