Example sentences of "held [prep] [art] king " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 2 | The long-term result of this statute was that practically all land held by free tenure had come to be held of the King . |
| 3 | Behind these words lay the belief that all offices and counties were fiefs held of the king , whether directly or through an intermediary . |
| 4 | Then , when King John took over the French lands which he had inherited in 1200 , he was allowed to do so only on condition that he should recognise them as being fiefs held of the king of France . |
| 5 | The event is being held at the King 's Hall and includes wines from Italy , Spain , Germany , France and the United States . |
| 6 | Secondly , and in this case a matter of particular importance , was the fact that the duchy of Aquitaine was held by a king who , for purposes of this treaty , had become a vassal of another king . |
| 7 | The actual founding of the town is obscure , but it was well established as part of the Royal hunting lodge before 1066 and so has no separate entry in the Domesday Book , since Snaith was a royal manor held by the King ‘ for the support of his table ’ , and therefore already documented . |
| 8 | Lastly , all that Louis IX abandoned in favour of Henry III — his fiefs and domains in Limousin , Quercy , and Périgord ( the so-called ‘ three dioceses ’ ) and all that remained to the Plantagenets of the ancient duchy of Aquitaine — was to be held by the king of England as an hereditary fief . |
| 9 | This was the origin of the office held by the king 's ordinary representative in the duchy or Aquitaine until 1453 . |
| 10 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 11 | As a measure of the regard in which the family was held by the king , Archbishop Neile was able to secure a royal pardon for his son when Sir Paul was indicted for the manslaughter of a carman and other felonies in January 1636 . |
| 12 | Lord Attlee 's memoirs , for example , as well as Sir John Wheeler Bennett 's biography of George VI described a number of views held by the King without the authors being accused of constitutional impropriety . |