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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 3542417, member: 56653"]A seigneurie is basically a land (and castle) grant from a feudal lord to his feudal vassal. After this grant the area becomes autonomous under the rule of the receiving vassal. So the seigneurie is basically what you have in english as lordship = the territory that is granted and received through a feudal alliance and/or vassalage. The ruler (person) is the Seigneur or Sire or Lord, and depending on the nature of the land grant, he is either given this right for life or (more often than not) ownes it as a hereditary fief, thus leaving it (and the title) to his heirs. This is also how new aristocratic houses appear, like for instance at Vierzon, when de Blois gave Humbaud le Tortu the ramparts and the adjacent villages of Vierzon, thus marking the birth of Maison de Vierzon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 3542417, member: 56653"]A seigneurie is basically a land (and castle) grant from a feudal lord to his feudal vassal. After this grant the area becomes autonomous under the rule of the receiving vassal. So the seigneurie is basically what you have in english as lordship = the territory that is granted and received through a feudal alliance and/or vassalage. The ruler (person) is the Seigneur or Sire or Lord, and depending on the nature of the land grant, he is either given this right for life or (more often than not) ownes it as a hereditary fief, thus leaving it (and the title) to his heirs. This is also how new aristocratic houses appear, like for instance at Vierzon, when de Blois gave Humbaud le Tortu the ramparts and the adjacent villages of Vierzon, thus marking the birth of Maison de Vierzon.[/QUOTE]
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