A small lordship, en enclave in the, territories of the Grieve League, was also gives up.

In 1559 the provosts were elevated to the rank of a Prince of the Empire in chief of the small lordship.

A vast number of minor independent duchies, free imperial cities, abbeys, bishoprics, and small lordships of sovereign families rounded out the Empire.

Under Napoleon, after an end had been put to the tangle of small lordships in the wake of the French Revolution, all monastic lands were auctioned off and became farmland.

Middle Francia was not united, and by the next generation it had disintegrated into smaller lordships, which West Francia and East Francia fought for control over.

The comté of Ponthieu was a small lordship on the estuary of the Somme, but its urban and rural life was vigorous.

In the late 14th century Arwystli, along with the small lordships of Caereinion and Cyfeiliog, was taken from the Cherleton family by Edmund Mortimer.

It likely formed in the 18th century under the comparatively liberal residency requirements that were then customary in smaller lordships.

The County of Holzappel emerged from the small lordship of Esterau consisting of 12 villages centered on the town of Esten.

Over the next four centuries, Norman lords established mostly small lordships, at times numbering over 150, between the Dee and Severn and further west.