lord

(noun)

A titled nobleman or aristocrat

Related Terms

  • rural obligations
  • Preindustrial cities

Examples of lord in the following topics:

  • The Founding of Carolina

    • The Province of Carolina was created when Charles II rewarded the Lords Proprietor lands that include the modern day Carolinas and Georgia.
    • They named their colony Carolina, and they themselves were called the Lords Proprietors.
    • The Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs.
    • The most active in the colonies was Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftsbury.
    • The Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietor given title to the Province of Carolina.
  • Feudalism

    • A lord was in broad terms a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and a fief was what the land was known as.
    • In exchange for the use of the fief and the protection of the lord, the vassal would provide some sort of service to the lord.
    • Before a lord could grant land (a fief) to someone, he had to make that person a vassal.
    • During homage, the lord and vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, while the lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces.
    • The vassal's principal obligation to the lord was "aid," or military service.
  • The Manor System

    • Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in the lord of a manor.
    • The lord was supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor (sometimes called a fief), and from the obligatory contributions of the peasant population who fell under the jurisdiction of the lord and his court.
    • As part of the contract with the landlord, the lord of the manor, they were expected to spend some of their time working on the lord's fields.
    • Villeins were tied to the land and could not move away without their lord's consent and the acceptance of the lord to whose manor they proposed to migrate to.
    • Illustrate the hierarchy of the manor system by describing the roles of lords, villeins, and serfs
  • The First Emancipation

    • Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
    • In November 1775 Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a controversial proclamation, later known as Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
    • The governor formed them into the Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment.
    • Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment was probably the first black regiment in the service of the Crown during the revolution.
  • The English Protectorate

    • The Protectorate was the period during the Commonwealth when England (which at that time included Wales), Ireland and Scotland were governed by a Lord Protector.
    • Cromwell had two key objectives as Lord Protector.
    • Most notably, however, the office of Lord Protector was still not to become hereditary, though Cromwell was now able to nominate his own successor.
    • Cromwell died of natural causes in 1658 and his son Richard succeeded as Lord Protector.
    • Cromwell's signature before becoming Lord Protector in 1653, and afterwards.
  • The Carolinas

    • The 1663 charter granted the Lords Proprietor title to all of the land from the southern border of the Virginia Colony to the coast of present-day Georgia.
    • Another region, near present-day Charleston, South Carolina, was settled under the Lords Proprietors in 1670.
    • The Lords Proprietors, operating under their royal charter, were able to exercise their authority with nearly the autonomy of the king himself.
    • This period culminated in Cary's Rebellion when the Lords Proprietors finally commissioned a new governor.
    • This circumstance, coupled with hostilities with American Indian tribes and the inability of the Lords Proprietors to act decisively, led to separate governments for North and South Carolina.
  • Preindustrial Cities

    • In the Holy Roman Empire, some cities had no other lord than the emperor.
    • City residence brought freedom from customary rural obligations to lord and community (hence the German saying, "Stadtluft macht frei," which means "City air makes you free").
    • Often, cities were governed by their own laws, separate from the rule of lords of the surrounding area.
  • Maryland

    • The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore and as a haven for English Roman Catholics in the New World.
    • Maryland's foundational charter created a state ruled by Lord Baltimore, who directly owned all of the land granted in the charter.
    • The charter created an aristocracy of lords of the manor who bought land from Baltimore and held greater legal and social privileges than the common settlers.
  • The Aftermath of Saratoga

    • The British government of Lord Frederick North came under sharp criticism when the news of Burgoyne's surrender reached London.
    • This defeat prompted Lord North to issue a proposal for peace terms in Parliament.
    • Following the Patriot victory at Saratoga, Lord North's government was heavily criticized for their management of the war effort.
  • Preindustrial Societies: The Birth of Inequality

    • Instead of producing crops for a market, workers exchanged the crops they grew for access to land, which was owned by a feudal lord.
    • Feudal lords were landowners; in exchange for access to land for living and farming, serfs offered lords their service or labor.
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