The Seigneuries
Michel Bur
Seigneurie (lordship) was a system of government in which the seigneur or lord, dominus Latin, exercised for his own profit powers that were regalian origin, is, public character. The formation lordships resulted parcelling-out kingdom gave birth to great principalities, baronies castellanies, those cells local life generated by castle. Besides these collective lordships, called 'communes', lay and ecclesiastical principalities demand attention first. peers always chosen from among twenty-six prelates who owed direct allegiance king. They all held sees on curving frontier which, north-east Paris, separated Capetian domain Angevin Normandy, Flemish Amiénois Vermandois, imperial Lorraine Burgundy. gradually constructed basis vast temporal power town country extension privilege immunity, added economic concessions related market minting rights.
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