DUCAL


Meaning of DUCAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

retinue

All made some contribution to the ducal retinue .

As these examples suggest, it becomes increasingly difficult to disentangle royal and ducal retinues .

Even allowing that the list is incomplete, East Anglia seems to have contributed individuals rather than a connection to the ducal retinue .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Again, the grant consolidated existing ducal interests, rounding out Gloucester's influence in the honour of Pickering further east.

Disparities between areas of customary law could, however, be exploited by the ducal administration in Aquitaine during lawsuits.

Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.

Echoes of these symbolic assertions of ducal autonomy were also to be heard at later periods.

Fitzwilliam's brothers-in-law also seem to have had ducal connections, although these are more tenuous.

It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later.

These are most visible when ducal retainers stood surety for each other.

Willoughby witnessed a ducal charter in 1480 and was Richard's first sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.

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