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Sentence Examples Louis XII became king of France in 1498 and, being a descendant of the first duke of Milan, he claimed the duchy. Bretons have their own language and customs, and until 1532 the province was an independent duchy. When, in 1809, Finland became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown. The political crisis of the grand duchy of Muscovy eventually enveloped much of Eastern Europe, and drew in both Sweden and Poland. Originally, the Duke held the electorate personally, but it was later made hereditary along with the duchy. Coburg and Gotha were the two towns in the former duchy of Saxen-Coburg and Gotha. When it became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown. In March 1628 a Spanish army besieged its key fortress of Casale, while a Piedmontese force occupied the remainder of the duchy. The third lion was added by King Henry II to represent the duchy his wife, Eleanor, came from and is called Aquitaine. June 9, 1815, after 400 years of domination by various European nations, Luxembourg was made a grand duchy by the Congress of Vienna. In 1657 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gained full sovereignty over the duchy. This rival claim, coupled with Normandy's long land frontier, meant that the duchy remained the most vulnerable part of his empire. Russia finally conquered Finland during the Napoleonic wars of 1808-1809, annexing it as an autonomous grand duchy. From 1889 to 1917 he served in the Russian army, as Finland was then a grand duchy within the Russian empire. A beautiful, headstrong, and feisty young woman, she was the heiress to the duchy of Hilos, one of the richest provinces. The nobles founded many monasteries and the archbishopric of Rouen was coterminous with the duchy. To refuse to blame the system is to assume a certain power, the way a pretender assumes a royal title or titular duchy or two. In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland. Finland had been a grand duchy of the czars for a century, but with the Bolshevik revolution at hand, the Western-oriented Finns rose to throw off their Russian bonds. The origins of the duchy of Normandy lie in a grant of territory around Rouen made early in the 10th cent. by the king of the west Franks to a Viking chieftain named Rollo. Show More Sentences The chancellorship of the duchy of Lancaster has been used in recent centuries as a supernumerary post, often in the cabinet, for an elder statesman. Lorraine, an independent duchy embedded in French territory and occupied and exploited by the French ever since 1670 in the hope of ultimate annexation, had to be given up. While Eleanor was to have Aquitaine in her own right, the son of that marriage would inherit both the kingdom and the duchy, doubling the royal holdings. He was seen as bringing glory to the duchy and the Duke was active in getting important commissions for him, as well as using his paintings as political gifts. After the investiture in 1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy became a cadet branch of the French royal house of Valois. It relies on the duchy to provide it with accurate information without carrying out its own independent checks. Turin had been the capital of the duchy of Savoy, but became the capital of the kingdom of Sardinia in 1720, sixteen years before Lagrange's birth. As a consequence, Francis renounced his claims to Italy, his possession of the duchy of Burgundy and his feudal suzerainty over Flanders and Artois. Charles of Orleans, the son of Valentina Visconti and the assassinated duke, laid claim to various territories in northwestern Italy, including the duchy of Milan. What could cause such a riotous disturbance in the politics of the duchy? He received substantial grants of land in the south-west, the high stewardship of the duchy of Cornwall and the lord wardenship of the stannaries. Since Charlotte's abdication, the grand duchy has been ruled again only by men, and the sisters remain the only two reigning grand duchesses of Luxembourg in history. We possess an important law of the Bavarians, whose duchy was situated in the region east of the river Lech. The duchy of Benevento maintained its sovereignty in the face of the pretensions of both the Western and Eastern Empires. In February 1054 the king and the Norman rebels launched a double invasion of the duchy. The duke travelled constantly around the duchy, confirming charters and collecting revenues. The church was utilised by the dukes as a unifying force for their disparate duchy. This arrangement was quite unusual in terms of medieval law, as Conan might have had sons who could have legitimately inherited the duchy. Henry was then free to move against the rebel barons in Brittany, where feelings about his seizure of the duchy were still running high. Henry was furious, and ordered John and Geoffrey to march south and retake the duchy by force. Show More Sentences It originated in the 7th century as a duchy of Francia, ultimately a recreation of the Roman provinces of Aquitania Prima and Secunda. It reappeared as a duchy, and in the High Middle Ages, an enlarged Aquitaine pledged loyalty to the Angevin kings of England. The autonomous and troublesome duchy of Aquitaine was conquered by the Franks in 769, after a series of revolts against their suzerainty. But when Eleanor was divorced from Louis and married Henry II of England in 1152, the duchy passed to the English Crown. Sometimes the duchy was granted in fief, sometimes held by the king in person. In 1171 Richard left for Aquitaine with his mother, and Henry II gave him the duchy of Aquitaine at the request of Eleanor. In 1337, Philip VI confiscated the English king's duchy of Aquitaine and the county of Ponthieu. In the Battle of Marignano, Francis defeated the Swiss, who had ousted his predecessor from Milan, and took control of the duchy. Following the death of the last Sforza Duke of Milan, Charles installed his son Philip in the duchy, despite Francis's claims on it. Before the Burgundian union, the Dutch identified themselves by the town they lived in or their local duchy or county. In the Kingdom of France, the duchy was occasionally set apart as an apanage to be ruled by a member of the royal family. The Montforts eventually won the duchy by warfare, but had to recognize the suzerainty of the King of France. If the monarch has no male children, the rights and responsibilities of the duchy belong to The Crown and there is no duke. The duchy also exercises certain legal rights and privileges across Cornwall, including some that elsewhere in England belong to the Crown. The government considers the duchy to be a crown body and therefore exempt from paying corporation tax. The duchy consisted of the title and honour, and the land holdings that supported it financially. Since 1993, the Prince of Wales has voluntarily paid income tax on the duchy income less amounts which he considers to be official expenditure. There, Alboin created the first Lombard duchy, which he entrusted to his nephew Gisulf. As a representative democracy with a constitutional monarch, it is headed by Grand Duke Henri and is the world's only remaining grand duchy. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia. Show More Sentences As a result of the independence that the Lombard cities gained in the Peace of Constance in 1183, Milan became a duchy. In the 880s, there were four Burgundies, which were the Kingdom of Upper and Lower Burgundy, the duchy and the county. During the Hundred Years' War, King John II of France gave the duchy to his youngest son, Philip the Bold. The Lex Frisionum of the duchy of Frisia consists of a medley of documents of the most heterogeneous character. However, the union of Sicily and Apulia was resisted by Pope Honorius II and by the subjects of the duchy itself. He began at once to enforce order in the duchy, where ducal power had long been fading. Therefore, the planning laws of England and Wales do not apply to the duchy. This was evidenced in 2002 when Kerrier District Council objected to duchy plans to commence development on one of its properties. The duchy is now considered to be a private estate and conveys to the Prince of Wales the majority of his income. The duchy of Schleswig constituted a Danish fief, while the Duchy of Holstein remained a part of the German Confederation. On a Jacobite perspective, on his father's death in 1701 the duchy of Cornwall was merged in the Crown. He had lost his electorship and his duchy, which was being plundered by the Emperor's mercenary soldiers. The Breton dukes held little power across most of the duchy, which was mostly controlled by local lords. These officials were introduced during the 12th century in Normandy and cause an organisation of the duchy similar to the sheriffs in England. The duchy was divided in 1180 when Duke Henry the Lion refused to follow his cousin, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, into war in Lombardy. The Saxon duchy of Hamaland played an important role in the formation of the duchy of Guelders. The anarchy in the duchy lasted until 1047, and control of the young duke was one of the priorities of those contending for power. Under the charter, the manors of the earldom passed to the duchy. In modern times, the revenue from the duchy has been the primary source of income for the Prince of Wales, both as to personal funds and public and charitable work. The duchy estate, which was based on the holdings of the previous earls, did not comprise the whole of the county, and much of it lay outside Cornwall. Show More Sentences The English argued that, as Charles IV had not acted in a proper way towards his tenant, Edward should be able to hold the duchy free of any French suzerainty. Under a charter of 1421, the duchy passes to the sovereign's eldest son. The tax position of the duchy has been challenged by British republicans. The Channel Islands remained part of the Duchy of Normandy until 1204 when King Philip II Augustus of France conquered the duchy from King John of England. There were two distinct patterns of Norse settlement in the duchy. William cultivated close relations with the church in his duchy. John de la Pole's attainder meant that his brother Edmund inherited their father's titles, but much of the wealth of the duchy of Suffolk was forfeit. Geoffrey continued the conquest of Normandy and in 1150 transferred the duchy to Henry while retaining the primary role in the duchy's government. He also operated an exchequer court at Caen that heard cases relating to royal revenues and maintained a number of king's justices who travelled across the duchy. The lands around Rouen became the core of the later duchy of Normandy. In 1156, the Privilegium Minus elevated Austria to the status of a duchy. In Normandy some of the border barons rose up and, although the majority of the duchy remained openly loyal, there appears to have been a wider undercurrent of discontent. From 1547 to 1603, there was no male royal heir to hold the title of duke, and the duchy reverted to the Crown, in effect becoming a department of the Exchequer. The large duchy in southwest Gaul was nominally under Frankish sovereignty, but in fact was almost independent under Odo the Great, Duke of Aquitaine. The Frankish border was slowly extended until 795, when Girona, Cardona, Ausona and Urgell were united into the new Spanish March, within the old duchy of Septimania. Conditions in Normandy were unsettled, as noble families despoiled the Church and Alan III of Brittany waged war against the duchy, possibly in an attempt to take control. William's duchy almost reached the limits of the old Roman Gallia Aquitania but did not stretch south of the Garonne, a district which was in the possession of the Gascons. The tax exemption is based on the assumption that the duchy estate is inseparable from the tax exempt person of Prince Charles, which is now open to question. Over the course of its existence, the duchy incorporated the Duchy of Gascony and, until 1271, the County of Toulouse, which now falls in the region of Occitanie. The contemporary region of Flanders comprises a part of this historical county, as well as parts of the medieval duchy of Brabant and the medieval county of Loon. Show More Sentences Even the Duchy quarterly The Cornish Banner received the book enthusiastically. This small village, like so much of the Duchy, has been put to the torch as recently as a couple years ago, perhaps sooner. Built by William the Conqueror, it and 17,270 Yorkshire acres hereabouts are owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. Whether the Duchy of Bohemia is actually a micronation or not is up for debate. He owns and controls the Duchy of Cornwall, established in the fourteenth century to provide an income for the heir apparent. The warrens and enclosures at High and Low Dalby belonged to the Duchy of Lancaster and extended to nearly 3,000 acres. The odor of failure and confusion linger over the Duchy like the smell of rotting flesh. Princess Maria and Prince Ron manage their Duchy well, but it is also the dumping ground for jesters, knaves and fools. After World War II, the Grand Duchy became an active participant in the process of forming economic and political union within Europe. We have an independent audit and accountants say the Duchy is being run according to all modern accounting practices. In Army of Duchy of Warsaw there existed ten uhlans regiments. In September we found ourselves owners of a Victorian, former Duchy of Cornwall flat in a mansion block on a 90-year lease with a secluded garden. The Pahonia, emblem of the Belarusian nation drawn from the insignia of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, is banned under Lukashenko. The Grand Duchy had two official languages Lithuanian and Belarusian. The farm supplies milk from its Ayrshire herd for Duchy Originals milk, vegetables for crisps, oats and wheat for biscuits, pigs for bacon and sausages and barley for ale. The landlady happened to be the most riggish female in the Duchy of Milan. He will also lose the massive income from the lands held by the Duchy of Cornwall, which currently provide some of their funding. The only other Duchy in the United Kingdom is the Duchy of Lancaster, which is also an estate rather than a peerage dignity. The lease remained in his family until it expired for most of the Isles in 1920 when ownership reverted to the Duchy of Cornwall. Few properties are privately owned, with many units being let by the Duchy of Cornwall, the council and a few by housing associations. Show More Sentences He was not, however, planning to absorb the Kingdom into the Duchy of Normandy. A few remnants of Normandy, including the Channel Islands, remained in John's possession, together with most of the Duchy of Aquitaine. In 1152, through marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, he became ruler of the Duchy of Aquitaine. For Normandy, there were a lot of fluctuations relative to the politics of the Duchy. Richard also recognised Auvergne as being in Philip's royal demense and not as part of the Duchy of Aquitaine, as Henry had claimed. He had long been deeply involved in the affairs of his own Duchy of Gascony. The Dukes of Orleans were descended from Valentina Visconti, and through her claimed the Duchy of Milan. Mother and son both claimed on several occasions the throne of France, and later the Duchy of Burgundy. At the beginning of Edward III's reign on 1 February 1327, the only part of Aquitaine that remained in his hands was the Duchy of Gascony. Shortly after the Restoration, he contested the succession of the Duchy of Albemarle, but lost. From their stronghold of Narbonne, they launched raids into the Duchy of Aquitaine. The greatest monument of this style in the territory of the former Duchy of Pomerania is the Ducal Castle in Szczecin. Over 1539, the king's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, negotiated a potential alliance with the Duchy of Cleves. In addition the Maratha Confederation, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Naples and the Duchy of Warsaw each had more than 100,000 men under arms. Polish patriots wanted the Russian part of Poland to be joined with the Duchy of Warsaw and an independent Poland created. For several months Churchill served in the sinecure of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The remnants of the Duchy of Normandy, which conquered England, remain associated to the English Crown as the Channel Islands to this day. Nomination and appointment generally takes place during Hilary, and announced via the Duchy of Cornwall Office. The right to nominate and select high sheriffs in Lancashire is vested in the monarch in right of the Duchy of Lancaster. The revenues of the Duchy form part of the Privy Purse, and are used for expenses not borne by the parliamentary grants. Show More Sentences The Duchy of Cornwall is a similar estate held in trust to meet the expenses of the monarch's eldest son. Important historical institutions were the Duchy of Cornwall and the Cornish Stannary Courts and Parliaments. Luxembourgish is mainly spoken in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, though it also extends into small parts of Belgium, France and Germany. In 1525 More became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with executive and judicial responsibilities over much of northern England. In 933, the islands were granted to William I Longsword by Raoul King of Western Francia and annexed to the Duchy of Normandy. The Channel Islands are part of the territory annexed by the Duchy of Normandy in 933 from the Duchy of Brittany. Napoleon set up the Duchy of Warsaw, a new Polish state that ignited a spirit of nationalism. Feuds and marital alliances brought the Abel dynasty into a close connection with the German Duchy of Holstein by the 15th century. In 1284, its town rights were confirmed and the town quickly rose to become one of the most important in the Duchy of Schleswig. The Treaties of Tilsit divided Europe between France and Russia and created the Duchy of Warsaw. In modern times the only area still referred to as Burgundy is in France, which derives its name from the Duchy of Burgundy. The parts of the old Kingdom not within the French controlled Duchy tended to come under different names, except for the County of Burgundy. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Habsburgs began to accumulate other provinces in the vicinity of the Duchy of Austria. German was the administrative language of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig. Coat of arms of the Duchy of Bukovina on display at the Palace of Justice in Vienna, Austria. In 1815 Worms passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in accordance with the Congress of Vienna and subsequently administered within Rhenish Hesse. From the 10th century onwards, Alamannia is more typically known as the Duchy of Swabia. At about 660, the Duchy of Vasconia united with the Duchy of Aquitaine to form a single realm under Felix of Aquitaine, governing from Toulouse. However, after Arecchis II's death in 787, his son Grimoald III proclaimed the Duchy of Benevento newly independent. Charlemagne lost interest and never again returned to Southern Italy where Grimoald was able to keep the Duchy free from Frankish suzerainty. Show More Sentences The Frankish commander Eric of Friuli wanted to extend his dominion by conquering the Littoral Croat Duchy. The Duchy of Normandy was created for the Viking leader Rollo after he had besieged Paris. The Vikings also took advantage of the civil wars which ravaged the Duchy of Aquitaine in the early years of Charles' reign. In the 15th century the Duchy of Milan was a major political, economical and military force at the European level. As the Grand Duchy of Finland was formed its inhabitants struggled to properly identify themselves ethnically. In 1809, eastern Sweden was conquered by Russia in the Finnish War, after which Finland became the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. Great Moravia and its successor state Duchy of Bohemia were founded by West Slavs in Central Europe in 9th century. Most importantly, ethnic Danes in both Denmark proper and the former Danish Duchy of Schleswig. On 18 November 1863, he signed the Danish November Constitution and declared the Duchy of Schleswig a part of Denmark. For brief periods the Crown of Aragon also controlled Montpellier, Provence, Corsica, and the twin Duchy of Athens and Neopatras in Latin Greece. Between 1815 and 1890 the King of the Netherlands was also in a personal union the Grand Duke of the sovereign Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Thereafter, Amalfi began a rapid decline and was replaced in its role as the main commercial hub of Campania by the Duchy of Naples. His father, caught in a bribery scandal, had been banished from Venice, and taken refuge in the Duchy of Modena. The only truly independent entities on Italian soil were the allied Duchy of Savoy and the Republic of Venice. Claude was heiress to the Duchy of Brittany through her mother, Anne of Brittany. The first Russian printers, Ivan Fedorov and Pyotr Mstislavets, were forced to flee from Moscow to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Yakut population alone is estimated to have fallen by 70 percent between 1642 and 1682 because of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy expeditions. The Duchy of Brabant was historically divided into four parts, each with its own capital. In 1477 the Duchy of Brabant became part of the House of Habsburg as part of the dowry of Mary of Burgundy. At that time the Duchy extended from Luttre, south of Nivelles to 's Hertogenbosch, with Leuven as the capital city. Show More Sentences Venice subsequently carved out a sphere of influence in the Mediterranean known as the Duchy of the Archipelago, and captured Crete. Siena fell in 1555 and eventually became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany founded by Cosimo I de' Medici. Florence was conquered by Charlemagne in 774 and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as capital. The dialects of the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant were the most influential around this time. Prior to the creation of the Duchy the Earls of Cornwall had control over the Assizes. Income from the Duchy of Cornwall goes to the Duke of Cornwall, or, when there is no duke, to the Sovereign. Nonetheless, the Duchy of Lancaster still continues to exist, theoretically run by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Duchy is the inherited property that belongs personally to the monarch, rather than to the Crown. The autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire was the first nation to allow all women to both vote and run for parliament. The town remains part of the County Palatine of Lancashire and is part of the Duchy of Lancaster. Between 1351 and 1661, it was administered as part of the Duchy of Lancaster. In the 1180s, Mecklenburg and the Duchy of Pomerania came under Danish control, too. The War Office agreed with the Duchy of Cornwall and the town council of Okehampton to set up a training range in north Dartmoor. In 1895, an additional 10,000 acres of moor were leased from the Duchy of Cornwall. The site was given by the Prince of Wales, who held the lands of the Duchy of Cornwall to which the whole moor belonged. Conan Doyle stayed at the former Duchy Hotel whilst writing and researching the story with his friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson. The prison is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, and is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. In January 2014 it was stated on the BBC news website that the notice period with the Duchy for closing is 10 years. The Duchy includes over 570 square kilometres of land, more than half of which lies in Devon. Until 2011, if there was no Duke of Cornwall at any time, then the income of the Duchy went to the Crown. Show More Sentences He leased Huccaby House, on the West Dart River, near Hexworthy, from the Duchy of Cornwall and Sayer used to visit as a child. Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Jakob Karl Ernst Halm was born in Bingen am Rhein, Grand Duchy of Hesse, on 30 Nov 1866, the son of Carl Karl Joseph Halm and Sabine Dietrich. The island of Guernsey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy. The Duchy of Lauenburg was transferred from Hanover to Denmark, and Prussia annexed Swedish Pomerania. The Czech state was formed in the late 9th century as the Duchy of Bohemia under the Great Moravian Empire. The designation 'Low' to refer to the region returns again in the 10th century Duchy of Lower Lorraine, that covered much of the Low Countries. As is the case for many parts of Duchy of Brabant, Herzogenrath changed hands several times in the last few centuries. In 1809 Finland was incorporated into the Russian Empire as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1811, Alexander I incorporated Russian Vyborg province into the Grand Duchy of Finland. The Duchy was legally abolished during the French Revolution, in 1789, and divided into five departments. Before the French Revolution, a large part of the region formed the Duchy of Lorraine. Luxembourgish is spoken mainly in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, but it also extends into small parts of Belgium, France, and Germany. In December 2012, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs were asked to investigate alleged tax avoidance by the Duchy of Cornwall. The written language of the Duchy of Brittany was Latin, switching to French in the 15th century. The following year, he launched an assault from Sicily against the Lombard Duchy of Benevento, which then occupied most of southern Italy. The Duchy of Normandy also annexed further areas in Northern France, expanding the territory which was originally negotiated. Rungholt was a settlement in Nordfriesland, in what was then the Danish Duchy of Schleswig. This process culminated in the rule of the House of Valois, who were the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy. In 1404, it was returned to Charles VI of France, in exchange for the Duchy of Nemours. Show More Sentences In 933, the Duchy of Normandy annexed the Channel Islands including Chausey, Minquiers and Ecrehous. The mount gained strategic significance again in 933 when William I Longsword annexed the Cotentin Peninsula from the weakened Duchy of Brittany. The Duchy of Normandy survived mainly by the intermittent installation of a duke. He was succeeded by his son, William Longsword in the Duchy of Normandy that he had founded. Philip moved south around the new defensive line and struck upwards at the heart of the Duchy, now facing little resistance. John's only remaining possession on the Continent was now the Duchy of Aquitaine. The available evidence suggests that John did not regard the loss of the Duchy as a permanent shift in Capetian power. Another Capetian lineage, the Montfort of Brittany, claimed male succession in the Duchy of Brittany. He also made the Duchy of Lancaster property of the crown, which it still is today. The attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney-general. The Duchy Originals company was set up in 1992 to use produce from farms on the ducal estate, with some proceeds going to his charities. In 2006, Llwynywermod was purchased by the Duchy as a residence for the Duke in Wales. In January 2012, the Duchy purchased a warehouse at Milton Keynes from Waitrose. This brought questions over the relationship between the Duchy and Waitrose. In 2014, the Duchy purchased the southern half of the Port Eliot estate from Lord St Germans. In 1913 the Government Law Officers gave an opinion that the Duke of Cornwall is not liable to taxation on income from the Duchy. Most property is tenanted out, particularly farm land, while the forest land and holiday cottages are managed directly by the Duchy. The Duchy owns The Oval cricket ground in London, which was built on land in Kennington that formed part of the original Duchy estate. The Duchy has ventured into planned development with Poundbury, near Dorchester in Dorset. Robert's rule of the Duchy was chaotic, and parts of Henry's lands became almost independent of central control from Rouen. Show More Sentences In 1105, Henry sent his friend Robert Fitzhamon and a force of knights into the Duchy, apparently to provoke a confrontation with Duke Robert. Henry began the process of besieging the rebel castles, before wintering in the Duchy. Also in 1808 the French Empire imposed on the Duchy of Warsaw the Convention of Bayonne to buy from France the debts owed to it by Prussia. In 1248, Simon de Montfort was appointed Governor in the unsettled Duchy of Gascony. When Charles was killed in the Burgundian Wars at the Battle of Nancy in 1477, the Duchy of Burgundy was reclaimed by France. The current logo features a Cornish chough and the 15 Cornish golden bezants on a black field as used in the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall. The Duchy Hospital in Truro run by Ramsay Health Care UK is the only private hospital in the County. The airport is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall and currently is operated by the Council of the Isles of Scilly. The heliport was owned and operated by Tresco Estates, who lease the island from the Duchy of Cornwall. When Robert left the Duchy to his young son William, Osbern became one of Duke William's guardians. In 1466, after the Thirteen Years' War, King Casimir IV Jagiellon gave royal consent to the Peace of Thorn, which created the future Duchy of Prussia, a Polish vassal. In 1807, Napoleon I of France temporarily recreated a Polish state as the satellite Duchy of Warsaw, after a successful Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 against Prussian rule. Robert joined the Crusade, borrowing money from William Rufus to do so, and granting the King temporary custody of his part of the Duchy in exchange. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. Also in 1992 Hughes published Rain Charm for the Duchy, collecting together for the first time his Laureate works, including poems celebrating important royal occasions. Alliances and relationships with neighbouring counties along the Norman border were particularly important to maintaining the stability of the Duchy. In 1204 the title and lands of the Duchy of Normandy and his other French possessions were stripped from King John of England by the King of France. Flemish however had been used since the 14th century to refer to the language and dialects of both the peoples of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant. Normally, however, the Chancellor does not exercise any actual duties related to the Duchy, so he is normally available as a Minister without Portfolio. In 1477, the territory of the Duchy of Burgundy was annexed by France. Show More Sentences However, the relationship between the Grand Duchy and the Russian Empire soured when the Russian government made moves to restrict Finnish autonomy. Finland first participated as a nation in its own right at the Olympic Games in 1908, while still an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire. It was this word which passed into Middle English as Albany, although very rarely was this used for the Kingdom of Scotland, but rather for the notional Duchy of Albany. The city of Helsinki, previously a town of 5,000 inhabitants, was made the capital of the new Grand Duchy of Finland in 1812 by decree of Alexander I, Emperor of Russia. The title is named after Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Argyll and Bute, but is not associated with any legal entity or landed property, unlike the Duchy of Cornwall. The victory did not end Tartar rule in the region, however, and its immediate beneficiary was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which extended its influence eastwards. Since the 13th century, long before the union of Brittany and France, the main administrative language of the Duchy of Brittany had been French, which had replaced Latin. The Duchy of Burgundy, forming a large part of eastern France and the Low Countries, was inherited by the House of Habsburg on the extinction of the Valois ducal line. All of the lordships of the Hundreds of Cornwall belonged, and still belong, to the Duchy of Cornwall, apart from Penwith which belonged to the Arundells of Lanherne. The Duchy administers bona vacantia within the County Palatine, receiving the property of persons who die intestate and where the legal ownership cannot be ascertained. But, at the repeated requests of King Henry, he gave up this project in order to act as viceroy in the unsettled and disaffected Duchy of Gascony. As part of the agreement, Edward gave homage to Philip for the Duchy of Aquitaine and agreed to a commission to complete the implementation of the 1303 Treaty of Paris. The harbour however continues to be owned and run by the Duchy. The Duchy of Aquitaine came into personal union with the Kingdom of England upon the accession of Henry II, who had married Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine. The Duchy of Lancaster is one of two royal duchies in England. Only as Duchy Trustee can the Monarch appoint the Sheriff of Cornwall. The Aegean islands came to form the Venetian Duchy of the Archipelago. Before the late medieval period, there was a single Duchy of Saxony. After several Norman raids in the 9th century, Cherbourg was attached to the Duchy of Normandy along with the Cotentin, in 933, by William Longsword. In 1053, the city was one of the four main cities of the Duchy of William the Conqueror to receive an annuity in perpetuity for the maintenance of one hundred needy. Show More Sentences The Danish king's realm still consisted of the islands, the northern half of the Jutland peninsula, and the Duchy of Schleswig in real union with the Duchy of Holstein. As well as the French Empire, Napoleon controlled the Swiss Confederation, the Confederation of the Rhine, the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Italy. In 1354, Charles IV elevated the County to the Duchy of Luxembourg. Since Sigismund had no male heir, the Duchy became part of the Burgundian Circle and then one of the Seventeen Provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands. In the Northern Europe, Konrad of Masovia gave Chelmno to the Teutonic Knights in 1226 as a base for a Crusade against the Old Prussians and Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Rollo's son and heir, William Longsword, and grandchild, Richard the Fearless, forged the Duchy of Normandy into West Francia's most cohesive and formidable principality. After 911 Duchy of Swabia extended westwards and added lands of Alsace. In 1560, Philip II organised a Holy League between Spain and the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, the Papal States, the Duchy of Savoy and the Knights of Malta. Poland had recently been partitioned by its three large neighbours, but Napoleon created the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, which depended on France from the very beginning. In 1552 Mercator moved from Leuven to Duisburg in the Duchy of Cleves. Under the Treaty, Henry acknowledged loss of the Duchy of Normandy. In Germany and Poland, new Napoleonic client states, such as the Kingdom of Westphalia, Duchy of Warsaw, and Republic of Danzig, were established. In 1906, universal suffrage was adopted in the Grand Duchy of Finland. Eleanor's ancestors claimed the huge County of Toulouse as it used to be the central power of the ancient Duchy of Aquitaine back in the times of Odo the Great. The Duchy of Cornwall owns most of the freehold land on the islands. This prompted him to come back a few years later in 1500, and claim the Duchy of Milan for himself, his grandmother having been a member of the ruling Visconti family. Toulouse, while technically part of the Duchy of Aquitaine, had become increasingly independent and was now ruled by Count Raymond V, who had only a weak claim to the lands. His military campaigns left him in heavy debt and when Philip IV of France confiscated the Duchy of Gascony in 1294, Edward needed funds to wage war in France. The only slight problem is the Duchy IS HRH's private fiefdom. A WATER cooler supplier counting the Duchy of Cornwall among its clients now offers its customers online ordering thanks to a new website devised by a Holmfirth firm. Find more words! 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