| The ancient baronage of England, according to history, was never more powerful than after the battle of Towton. |
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| Some of the local baronage had trickled in and Frederick made a show of ordering matters in the city. |
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| The chapeau is barely mentioned by Scottish heraldic writers, before Learney ascribed the chapeau to the baronage. |
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| Conrad had the support of the local baronage still, but the newcomers saw him as inexplicably hostile. |
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| Indeed, even later English kings found their authority fragmented and attenuated by divided loyalties among the baronage. |
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| This year Ajit Shetty, CEO of Janssen Pharmaceutica, was among those who were raised to the baronage. |
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| The point is the baronage was not united against King John, and of the knightage only a small percentage was in revolt. |
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| There is entity called the Convention of The Baronage of Scotland, but they do not represent the baronage. |
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| The knights stayed with the citizens rather than joining the baronage, with whom they had much in common, adding great weight to the Commons house. |
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| Because Richard was so successful in his wars, and because he was genuinely liked and admired by much of the baronage, his rule met with little opposition in England. |
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| Nearly the entire baronage, as well as the local population, was hostile. |
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| Though the church and the majority of the baronage supported Stephen, Matilda's claims were powerfully upheld in England by her half brother Robert of Gloucester and her uncle King David I of Scotland. |
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| The English king Edward I met the Scottish baronage at Norham in Northumberland and insisted that as adjudicator between the claimants he should be recognized as overlord of Scotland. |
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| John thus succeeded in his aim to secure the papacy as a firm ally in the fight with Philip and in the struggle already pending with his own baronage. |
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| Reacting against Henry, the baronage ultimately supported Edmund. |
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| Otto's death in 973 put Benedict at the mercy of the powerful Roman Crescentii family, whose role in the history of the papacy was dramatized when Crescentius I led a resurgence of the Roman baronage. |
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| In Richard's view, this put a dangerous amount of power in the hands of the baronage. |
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| Royal government in England had traditionally centred on several great offices of state, filled by powerful, independent members of the baronage. |
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| During this period, membership in the English baronage, formerly a somewhat indistinct group, became restricted to those who received a personal summons to parliament. |
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| Paget's Baronage gives no birthdate for either Thomas Basset or Gilbert Basset. |
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