Meaning of castellany | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The office of a castellan, the lordship of a castle.
   historical
2. The jurisdiction of a castellan, the district controled by a castle.
   historical

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Examples

“The complaints and remonstrances of the Communes were loud and indignant, and they demanded the restitution of the castellanies of Lille and Douai, which had been wrested from them by force and treachery.”

“Yet the consellers main concern was not this, so much as the fact that a number of Manresan citizens held certain '''franquitates, which included feudal dues, rents, or lands held in allod, within the disputed ''castellanies.”

“Inhabitants of the castellany of Bytom were classified according to status, ethnicity, and implicitly geographic mobility and recent resettlement.”

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