How to use in-sentence of “earldom”:
+ Ross is a region of Scotland and a former earldom and county.
+ It was an earldom between 1016 and 1066.
+ It later became an earldom in the Anglo-SaxonsAnglo-Saxon Kingdom of England.
+ He inherited the title and estates of the earldom of Leicester in England.
+ Richard I reaffirmed his father’s promise to William and gave him the heiress of the Earldom of Pembroke, Striguil and the lands that came with her as was promised to him by Henry II shortly before Henry’s death.
+ Montgomery was never raised to an earldom like other wartime commanders Harold Alexander, Louis Mountbatten and even Archibald Wavell, but unlike them he had never been a Theatre Supreme Commander or held high political office.
Example sentences of “earldom”:
+ The area once belonged to the NorwayNorwegian earldom of Orkney.
+ At first it was a part of the earldom of Bentheim, before it became independent in 1454.
+ The Earldom of Northumbria was later a part of England by the Anglo-Scottish Treaty of York in 1237.
+ Derwentwater gave its name to the Earldom of Derwentwater.
+ After an education at Eton CollegeEton and Oxford, Dalmeny succeeded to his grandfather’s Scottish earldom in 1868.
+ Anne was called back to England to marry a distant cousin James Butler, in the hope to settle an inheritance dispute over the Earldom of Ormond.
+ The area once belonged to the NorwayNorwegian earldom of Orkney.
+ At first it was a part of the earldom of Bentheim, before it became independent in 1454.
+ He was restored to his earldom and went on to marry William’s niece, Judith of Lens.
+ In the late 12th century Antrim became part of the Earldom of Ulster, won by Anglo-Norman invaders.
+ Ragnvald, Earl of Møre received Orkney and Shetland as an earldom from the king as reparation for his son’s being killed in battle in Scotland.
+ Ragnvald gave the earldom to his brother Sigurd the Mighty.