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Webster 1828 Edition
Viscountship
VISCOUNTSHIP
,Noun.
Definition 2024
viscountship
viscountship
English
Noun
viscountship (plural viscountships)
- The role or status of viscount.
- 1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:
- Louis persisted in struggling for the preponderance of the crown against the great vassals; succeeded in taming Peter Mauclerc, the turbulent Count of Brittany; wrung from Theobald IV., Count of Champagne, the rights of suzerainty in the countships of Chartres, Blois, and Sancerre, and the viscountship of Chateaudun, and purchased the fertile countship of Macon from its possessor.
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