seignior

The seignior's powers were those that extended over the whole community.

Most significant of all was the seignior's capacity to command and judge the community's inhabitants.

However unconsciously, the seignior followed a policy of social levelling.

He took the title of megaskyr or grand seignior in Athens.

For one thing, there were the fees derived from the governmental function of the seignior, a subject to be treated later.

What the seignior sought was the obedience of all the inhabitants of the community.

Why will you put us to the necessity of this, Seignior Atkins?"

In thirteenth-century Austria a minister was a grand seignior.

He was succeeded as seignior of Rimini by his other son Malatestino.

Some were taxes, like the seignior's tallage.

In that year the owner (the ci-devant seignior), encouraged by an agricultural renewal, made significant repairs.

"Aye, barbarian-by my noble right, the right of the seignior.

Although usually a wealthy landlord, the seignior was essentially the ruler of a community, the head of what was, in effect, a small state.

"Why," says the Spaniard, very calmly, "Seignior Inglese, they must not starve."

"Well, but Seignior Atkins," says the Spaniard, "what have we done to you that you will kill us?

Mainmorte had originally meant the seignior's absolute right to dispose of a peasant's property at his death but had long since become a tax upon inheritances.

During the day, Romuald performed his duties as priest, and at night, he was Seignior Romuald of Venice.

He was seignior of Faenza and Imola, and attempted unsuccessfully to conquer also Forlì.

When the Spanish governor heard this, he calls to Will Atkins, "How, Seignior Atkins, would you murder us all?

The fact that a local seignior hostile to the town of Vercelli initially aided the Apostles shows that there was more to this process than mere flight.

Special town quarters were also common in Latin society as long as the movement for town freedom had not taken the reins from the hands of a prince or seignior.

She was born in Faenza, current Emilia-Romagna, to Astorre II Manfredi, seignior of that city.

Around 1180 the tavern keepers of Ferrieres-en-Gatinais were obliged by the seignior to close their shops during his annual wine sale because they served as brokers for foreign buyers.

Men of the higher orders tended to think of all farmers as little more than serfs-'stinking serfs' said the great poet and seignior Bertrand of Born.

Soon thereafter he was obtained by Bankes, who named him after the morocco leather from which contemporary saddles were made, and jocularly addressed him as "seignior" (señor).