These marriages helped to alleviate the loss of income from Michael's imperial estates.

Foreigners call this 280-hectare (700-acre) imperial estate the Summer Palace.

There is one last function which small towns might have possessed at provincial level, that of acting as administrative centres for imperial estates.

In 1648, other imperial estates (Reichsstände) were granted the Münzregal.

They worked on an imperial estate and were often oppressed by travelling magistrates or imperial slaves.

Thus the imperial estates were not convoked by 1810th The king ruled by decree.

It was an imperial estate and a member of the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle.

They were perhaps the cause of his conviction for magic, which allowed Agrippina to confiscate them and add them to the imperial estates.

The province was the site of a great number of imperial estates, as contemporary legislation testifies.

Some would be retained as ager publicus (state-owned land), which in practice were managed as imperial estates.