Example sentences of "[prep] charles [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Kenelm Digby , philosopher-scientist , soldier-diplomat , ardent royalist , lifelong friend and confidant of Charles the First 's widow , Queen Henrietta Maria , was born in 1603 and died in 1664 . |
| 2 | It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald 's kingdom . |
| 3 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |
| 4 | In the reigns of Charles the Bald 's predecessors , the count 's first main function was to look after royal estates ( fisc-lands ) and royal income ( for instance from tolls and fines ) within his county . |
| 5 | For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite . |
| 6 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 7 | The so-called Annals of St-Bertin ( so called simply because one manuscript survived later in the Middle Ages at the monastery of St-Bertin ) were produced in Charles the Bald 's kingdom , more or less contemporaneously with the events they record , throughout Charles 's reign . |
| 8 | One technological improvement is a little better-documented : water-mills proliferated , with references to them in Charles the Bald 's charters , for instance , becoming increasingly frequent as the reign went on . |
| 9 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 10 | Such a neutralising of the grantor 's intentions was not something that evolved in Charles the Bald 's reign , a degradation of a once-pure system : rather , there was always , from the time when the earliest precarial grants are documented , a tendency for grants to be assimilated to hereditary lands , and then be passed along with those to the beneficiary 's heirs . |
| 11 | Information of most political importance , such as news of the death of a king or queen , went astonishingly fast , both within Charles the Bald 's kingdom and , over great distances , between Carolingian kingdoms . |
| 12 | This raises one last point about the geographical distribution of the symptoms dealt with in this chapter : each can be found outside Charles the Bald 's kingdom ; but the syndrome of generalised cash-relations in the countryside , the proliferation of markets and mints , extensive activities of traders including small-scale ones in civitates , and a pattern of frequent royal residence in or near civitates , can be found only there — and specifically in the north-eastern part of the West Frankish kingdom . |
| 13 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 14 | The point is important , because much of the modern secondary literature on Charles the Bald 's reign , and on the Carolingians generally , has depicted the aristocracy as greedy and boorish , incapable of sharing the higher aspirations of kings or clergy , lacking any sense of public interest . |
| 15 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
| 16 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |