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	Castellany - Definition, explanation
		A castellany is a province rulled by a castellan.
		Castellanies appeared during the Middle Ages and in most current states are now replaced by a more modern type of subnational entity.
		The word is derived from castle and literally means the extent of land and jurisdiction belonging to a given castle.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/ca/castellany.php (87 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A castellany was a district administered by a castellan.
		Castellanies appeared during the Middle Ages and in most current states are now replaced by a more modern type of country subdivision.
		Examples of French chÃ¢telainies include the castellanies of Ivry, Nonancourt, Pacy, Vernon and Gaillon, all in Normandy, which under in the treaty of Issoudun (1195, after a war with king Richard of England) were acquired for the French crown by Philip Augustus.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=castellany (144 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Giecz" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The town quickly recovered and until 13th century it was a notable centre of administration, trade and commerce in Greater Poland.
		Around that time the town was also granted with a city charter and became a seat of a castellany.
		In 1331 it was burnt to the ground - never to recover.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=giecz (191 words)

	Castellany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A castellany was a district administered by a castellan.
		Castellanies appeared during the Middle Ages and in most current states are now replaced by a more modern type of country subdivision.
		Examples of French châtelainies include the castellanies of Ivry, Nonancourt, Pacy, Vernon and Gaillon, all in Normandy, which under in the treaty of Issoudun (1195, after a war with king Richard of England) were acquired for the French crown by Philip Augustus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castellany (157 words)

	Castellan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Kingdom of Poland and later Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the castellans (Polish: kasztelan) were often considered to be subordinates of voivodes (with the exception of the Castellan of Cracow, which had a privileged position, being Commonwealth capital until 1596).
		Castellans were in charge of a part of the voivodeship called castellany until the 15th century, and from that time on their domain was divided into provinces for Greater Castellans and powiats for Minor Castellans.
		Chancellors were district officials and had the right to attend sessions of the Polish parliament, the Sejm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castellan (295 words)

	Powiat Piotrkowski - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		in the 11th century, the ‘opola’ transformed into ‘castellanies’ which fulfilled the function of state administrative districts.
		Piotrków appeared on the border of the castellany of Rozprza and the castellany of Wolbórz in the 12th century.
		As the system of castellanies became outdated, an administrative division into poviats (counties) was introduced in the late 14th century.
	www.powiat-piotrkowski.pl /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=64 (358 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the Kingdom of Poland and later Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the castellans (Polish: kasztelan) were often considered to be subordinates of voivodes (with the exception of the Castellan of Cracow, which had a privileged position, being Commonwealth capital until 1596).
		Castellans were in charge of a part of the voivodeship called castellany until the 15th century, and from that time on their domain was divided into provinces for Greater Castellans and powiats for Minor Castellans.
		Chancellors were district officials and had the right to attend sessions of the Polish parliament, the Sejm.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Castellan (262 words)

	Dianne Elizabeth's Family History
		Viscounties and castellanies [a castle and the land it controlled] were divisions under the king.
		Nobles might do homage to their king, but more as a mark of alliance than as an admission of their obligations to him, which often resulted in confiscation of lands and titles.
		Castellany: A lordship consisting of a castle and its surrounding lands.
	www.dianneelizabeth.com /Surname/Harley/england_hx.html (2092 words)

	Silesia
		From about 1210 Henry began to bring German colonists into his territory and to permit them to found German villages and cities.
		Bishop Laurence of Breslau followed his example in the district under the control of his see, the castellany of Ottmachau.
		The monasteries did much to aid the colonization and the Germanic tendencies, especially the Cistercians of the monastery of Leubus.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/silesia.html (1430 words)

	URZĄD GMINY PAKOSŁAW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is the place of the oldest castellany on Rawicz land mentioned in the papal edict of Innocenty II in 1136 under the caption ‘Kasztelania Czestram’.
		The remains of the castellany constitute a well preserved conical emplacement of a medival castle surrounded by an embankment and a moat.
		The palace set was built in the first half of the eighteenth century for the Choinscy family.
	www.pakoslaw.pl /warto_zobaczyc_en.htm (844 words)

	Kalisz - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Although it is still not certain whether the exact spot where the city centre is located nowadays was inhabitated in 2nd century, there are many artifacts of the Roman times in the area, pointing to the fact that it must have been one of the stops of the Roman caravans heading for the Baltic Sea.
		Modern Kalisz was most probably founded in 9th century as a castellany and a minor fort.
		The name itself stems from the Slavic term kał, meaning swamp or marsh.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kalisz (1285 words)

	PGSA - Town Translation Entries (Z)
		Its borders were, on the south, the Brda river, on the east the Struga (the left tributary stream of the Brda), on the north Czarna Woda, on the west Sumin lake, the little river Spryca and lake Charzykowo.
		The name "the Zabory" for this area arose among the inhabitants of the old castellany of Raciaz, for along the Brda extend even today wide forests, in which are found only tiny setlements, originating only in recent times.
		In a document of Wladyslaw from 1299, giving back the judgments and the tribute from honey in the castellany of Raciaz' to Michal Jankowicz, a "palaciam in terra Zaborensi ("palace in the land of Zabory") was handed over to him at the same time.
	www.pgsa.org /towns/townsZ.htm (4610 words)

	castellany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A castellany was a district administered by a castellan Castellanies appeared...
		Castellany of the Four Offices (Vier Ambachten) (now partly Netherlands) Land of Dendermonde...
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	castellany.inetsearcher.com (193 words)

	PGSA - Towns Translaions Entries(P2)
		Not long after that Puck was the seat of a castellany.
		The Puck castellany was bordered on the north and east by the Baltic, on the west by Zarnowiec and nearby lake Piasnica, and the village of Gowino; on the south it extended to Oksywie on the sea and to Miloszewo and Bedargowo (see Toeppen, Histororisch-Comparative Geographie von Preussen, 1858, page 44).
		The Puck castellany is mentioned for the rst time in a document of Mestwin from 1277 (“castellatura de Putzc”; see von Perlbach, op.
	www.pgsa.org /towns/townsP2.htm (8262 words)

	Opole - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At the end of the century Silesia became part of Poland and was ruled by the Piast dynasty; the land of the pagan Opolanians was conquered by Duke Boleslaw I in 1012/1013.
		From the 11th-12th centuries it was also a castellany.
		Along with the rest of Silesia, Opole became part of the Holy Roman Empire in 1163.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Opole (1026 words)

	Commarque castle history
		The Beynacs succeeded in constituting a veritable castellany around Commarque when they retook the rights of Marquay and of Sireuil from the Cendrieux and imposed their suzerainty on the den of Laussel.
		By this alliance, the lords of Commarque acquired the castellany of Beynac and its dependencies.
		A tax, ordered by the king, was levied on the inhabitants of Perigord and Quercy to pay the ransom.
	www.commarque.com /htmgb/histoire.php (868 words)

	property for sale in Poitou-Charentes & History of the town of Cognac
		The prosperity which came from the salt and wine trades was fought over during the Medieval period by the English and the French.
		In the 12th century, the castellany of Cognac had become part of the earldom of Angoulême, and as a result became the favourite residence for a small provincial court which was a genuine centre of art and literature.
		Thus it was that on 12th September 1494, was born at about 10 p.m., François de Valois-Angoulême, who was to succeed to the throne as King François l in 1515.
	www.frenchhouses.co.uk /properties-poitou-charentes-france/upto200k.htm (703 words)

	BELGIUM-ROOTS Project: County of Flanders (until 1795) - Castellany Waasland
		Inhabitants of the Waasland are proud people, and when asked about their origin, they will almost always add to the name of their village: "in het Waasland".
		Historically, the Waasland was a kind of "lower county" (or castellany), part of the old County of Flanders.
		Renowned for the yield of its land, it was called the garden of Europe.
	belgium.rootsweb.com /bel/bel_ar/flanders/waasland (245 words)

	Wyszogród - Definition, explanation
		In 11th century it became fortified and started to act as a local centre of commerce.
		In 12th century it became the seat of local castellany and soon it became one of the seats of Dukes of Masovia.
		Relocated on Magdeburg Law in 1398, Wyszogród became one of the most important inland ports and centres of textile production in the area.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/wy/wyszogrod_1.php (219 words)

	Giecz
		The town quickly recovered and until 13th century it was a notable centre of administration, trade and commerce in Greater Poland.
		Around that time the town was also granted with a city charter and became a seat of a castellany.
		In 1331 it was burnt to the ground - never to recover.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Giecz (196 words)

	496
		It is nowadays conventional to speak of 'Francia' as the region controlled by the Rex Francorum of the moment until the about the reign of Philip I (1060-1108), under whom the long, post-Carolingian decline of the monarchy was stopped.
		Philip's lifetime struggle was to secure the castellany of Montlhéry, on the road between Paris and Orléans, in order to control the Ile-de France, the small heart of France.
		Half a millennium earlier, Clovis was the military chief of an amorphous collection of towns, then run by their bishops, and rural areas, more of a policeman than a monarch.
	www.portifex.com /Dates/496.htm (850 words)

	The EDISH Encyclopedia
		Baccarat was a castellany in the Lorraine region owned by the Lord Bishop of Metz.
		A castellany was "an ensemble of lands belonging to a governor and under his jurisdiction".
		The land had too much silica in it's soil to be good for growing wheat, but it did have access to vast forests that could be utilized for fuel.
	www.edish.com /e/ency.asp (1264 words)

	Historian Paul M Remfry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Clun Castle, 1066 to 1282 (ISBN 1-899376-00-3) charts the progress of the Say and Fitz Alan families from the foundation of Clun castellany, probably before 1086, through the Anarchy to the Barons' Wars of the thirteenth century when the Fitz Alans through marriage became Earls of Arundel.
		A Political History of Abbey Cwmhir, 1176 to 1282 (ISBN 1-899376-02-X) deals with the politics of the Middle Marches during the era of the foundation of the abbey until the fall of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd.
		The foundation and design of Wigmore castle is examined and also the setting up of the associated castellany.
	www.castlewales.com /remfry.html (1805 words)

	Town history - Cieszyn.pl - serwis informacyjny
		Accidental discoveries of palaeontological and archaeological relics in the area of Cieszyn and the vicinities have, for a long time, aroused the interest of local lovers of antiquity.
		There were human settlements on the Castle Hill as early as the 5th century B.C., and at the turn of the 11th century this defensive point on the Olza had become the seat of a border castellany of the Piast Kingdom, and later the Gothic castle of the Cieszyn Princes.
		The borough at the foot of the castle gradually transformed into an early medieval town, coming under German Law of Lwówek Śląski in the 13th century.
	www.cieszyn.eu /?p=categoriesShow&iCategory=390 (577 words)

	Cross versus Crown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The result was the rapid spread of feudalism, hitherto a negligible factor in Germany, and this is turn strengthened the power of the prices.
		Castles were built throughout the land, and the castellany became the unit of administration.
		The church became feudalized; and after 1122 the bishops began to join the princes in their quest for territorial power.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/wc1/lectures/20crosscrown.html (2541 words)

	C'est la Guerre - Parade Ground - Senlis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The town and Countship of Dammartin (Dammartin-en-Goele) is found fifteen miles northeast of Paris, and was held by Count Charles of Dammartin at the time of this army.
		The town and Castellany of Vez is located about forty miles northeast of Paris.
		The town and Castellany of Béthizy (Béthisy-St.-Pierre) is about thirty-five miles northeast of Paris.
	www.sonic.net /~fatdogs/dbm/army/full_frame/a/ra_senlis.html (113 words)

	Fall 2003 Undergraduate Courses - Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
		The expanded title of this course is Castles, Castellanies, and Courts in Latin Europe, 900-1650.
		It will first consider the castle as a form of fortification, review briefly the history of fortifications before 900, and examine the ways in which lords and their builders steadily improved their defensive capabilities in response to new knowledge and to new methods and tools of siegecraft.
		The course will conclude with an examination of the history of the castellany as a form of jurisdiction.
	www.nd.edu /~medinst/courses/undergrad/Fall2003.html (2919 words)

	Offices in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Information from Reference.com
		A castellan was in charge of part of a voivodship (till the 15th century called a castellany, and thereafter divided into provinces for Major Castellans and powiats for Minor Castellans).
		From 1565, the principle of "incompatibilitas" ("incompatibility") forbade voivods and castellans to hold a second title as a minister, except for the post of hetman.
		Kasztelanowie (singular: kasztelan) — Castellans: heads of kasztelanie (castellanies).
	www.reference.com /search?q=Offices+in+Polish-Lithuanian+Commonwealth (4453 words)

	www.um.oswiecim.pl - Content
		About the year 1179 - Casimir the Just, the duke of Cracow, assigned the Oswiecim castellany on behalf of his own nephew Mieszko Platonogi, duke of Opole and a lord on Raciborz.
		(Separation of Oswiecim castellany from Cracow Duchy caused no essential changes in loyal and religious status of those territories, as until year 1821 they were subjected to Cracow diocese).
		About year 1281 - In result of partition of Opole Duchy, the Oswiecim castellany entered into a newly created by this partition Cieszyn Duchy.
	www.um.oswiecim.pl /pl/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=61 (1770 words)

	Castellany
		This is the definition of the term Castellany
		Castellany (n.) The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
		For people who have trouble spelling, this is the defintion of the term Castellany
	linkspider.serversystems.net /dictionary/lookup/castellany (76 words)

	The Bastide of Villefranche de Lonchat
		Disagreement exits over the origins of this bastide : some believe it to have been founded in 1287 by Phillipe IV The Fair, others by Jean de Grailly.
		It was built on the site of a former priory and quickly established as the castellany on which depended the parishes of Villefranche and Minzac.
		The bastide was walled and had a castle although the street plan suggests the existence of only one central axe.
	www.pays-de-bergerac.com /english/tourisme/site_remarquable/bastides/villefranche/index.asp (168 words)

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