Definition of "seigneury" [seigneury]

• The power, rank, or estate of a seigneur. (noun)

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• "De Mons agreed, and on February 25, 1606, Henri IV granted Poutrincourt “the seigneury of Port-Royal and adjacent lands.”"
• "He sold some of his landed property in the seigneury of Puy-du-Fou and obtained a capital of 29,416 écus or 88,248 livres tournois in liquid assets, a large sum by the standards of that age."
• "Poutrincourt and Lescarbot made it a feudal seigneury, subject to the king of France."