adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
retinue
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All made some contribution to the ducal retinue .
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As these examples suggest, it becomes increasingly difficult to disentangle royal and ducal retinues .
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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
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Again, the grant consolidated existing ducal interests, rounding out Gloucester's influence in the honour of Pickering further east.
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Disparities between areas of customary law could, however, be exploited by the ducal administration in Aquitaine during lawsuits.
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Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.
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Echoes of these symbolic assertions of ducal autonomy were also to be heard at later periods.
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Fitzwilliam's brothers-in-law also seem to have had ducal connections, although these are more tenuous.
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It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later.
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These are most visible when ducal retainers stood surety for each other.
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Willoughby witnessed a ducal charter in 1480 and was Richard's first sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.