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	Vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the 13th century jurist John of Ibelin the four highest barons in the Kingdom proper were the Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, the Prince of Galilee, the Lord of Sidon, and the Lord of Oultrejordain.
		Many of these seigneuries ceased to exist after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187, and the rest of them after the fall of Acre in 1291, yet they often had Cypriot or European claimants for decades or centuries afterwards; these claimants, of course, held no actual territory in Syria after the mainland kingdom was lost.
		It was one of the longest-lived seigneuries, surviving until the final collapse of the kingdom in 1291, although only as a tiny strip on the Mediterranean coast surrounding Beirut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vassals_of_the_Kingdom_of_Jerusalem (2091 words)

	Vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to the 13th century jurist John of Ibelin the four highest barons in the Kingdom were the Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, the Prince of Galilee, the Lord of Sidon, and the Lord of Oultrejordain.
		Unlike in Europe, seigneuries in the Kingdom of Jerusalem tended not to be hereditary, at least in the early years.
		Many of these seigneuries ceased to exist after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187, and after the fall of Acre in 1291, yet they often had European claimants for decades or centuries afterwards; these claimants, of course, held no actual territory.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Vassals-of-the-Kingdom-of-Jerusalem.html (1583 words)

	Seigneurial System
		Seigneurial system, an institutional form of land distribution and occupation established in NEW FRANCE in 1627 and officially abolished in 1854.
		It was inspired by the feudal system, which involved the personal dependency of censitaires (tenants) on the seigneur; in New France the similarities ended with occupation of land and payment of certain dues, and the censitaire was normally referred to as a HABITANT.
		The land was therefore granted as fiefs and seigneuries to the most influential colonists who, in turn, granted tenancies.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007270 (122 words)

	www.ancestrysolutions.com - Land Records: teaching article
		Seigneuries were only granted upon the express condition that the lands be ceded to tenants.
		The seigneurial system was the first land holding system to be established in Canada and became the key element in the early colonization of this country.
		The seigneurial system, notwithstanding that the lands in the rest of Canada were held as freehold property, was not abolished until 18 December 1854.
	www.ancestrysolutions.com /Genea101%20Land.html (7179 words)

	Seigneuries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The seigneurial system was the semi- feudal system of noble privilege in France and its colonies.
		Unlike Roman-based feudalism from which it was derived the lord of the manor was notgranted the "haut" or "bas" jurisdiction to impose fines and penalties as in Europe, those powers were given tothe intendant of the king.
		It remained relativelyintact for almost a century; some Englishmen purchased seigneuries; others were divided equally between male and femaleoffspring; some were run by the widows of seigneurs as their children grew to adulthood.
	www.therfcc.org /seigneuries-217057.html (497 words)

	Articles - Seigneurial system of New France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The seigneurial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land distribution used in the colonies of New France.
		The seigneurial system differed somewhat from its equivalent in France; while in France it was a remnant of the feudal system, in New France it was used as an incentive for settlement and colonization.
		Seigneuries were granted to military officers, some were owned by the Catholic clergy and even by unions of local inhabitants.
	www.afinest.com /articles/Seigneurial_system_of_New_France (746 words)

	Exhibitions/Settlement/The Seigneuries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When a person or community was granted a seigneury, certain obligations had to be met: rendering fealty and homage; ceding land to those who requested it; maintaining and having tenants maintain "hearth and home;" reserving the oak wood for the building of royal ships; and acknowledging the King of France had ownership of the subsoil.
		The price of a seigneury was generally proportional to its level of development: the more numerous the censitaires, the more was its selling price.
		The purchaser of a seigneury was required to pay the droit de quint, a tax collected by the state equal to one-fifth of the sale price.
	www.champlain2004.org /html/05/02_e.html (187 words)

	HCO 3F. New France - Daily Life - Narration
		Seigneuries were grants of land made by the Crown to members of the nobility and varied in size from ten square kilometers to close to two hundred square kilometers.
		One-thirteenth of his crop went to support the priest and church in the seigneury, although that was cut in half at the start of the seventeenth century.
		All in all, the seigneurial system provided the major underpinning for the lives of the great majority of the population.
	www.ottres.ca /hconline/chapters/3/3Fdailylife.html (2327 words)

	Civilization.ca - VMNF - The Seigneurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Under the company regime a seigneury was often ceded free, in return for services rendered.
		Sometimes the seigneurs of these seigneuries never even came to live in New France.
		35 of the remaining seigneuries belonged to members of the aristocracy, whether of ancient or recent lineage.
	www.vmnf.civilization.ca /vmnf/popul/seigneurs/10-en.htm (209 words)

	FreeBooksToRead.com - Seigneurs of Old Canada by William Bennett Munro - Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Or when some seigneurial claim, even though warranted by law or custom, seemed to be detrimental to the general wellbeing of the people, he regularly brought the matter to the attention of the home government and invoked its intervention.
		This obligation did not bear heavily on the people of the seigneuries; most of the complaints concerning it came rather from the seigneurs, who claimed that the toll was too small and did not suffice, in the average seigneury, to pay the wages of the miller.
		By the terms of their tenure the habitants of the seigneury were required to appear each May Day before the main door of the manor-house, and there to plant a pole in the seigneur's honour.
	www.freebookstoread.com /cca0510_1.htm (22831 words)

	Francophone Quebec in the Canal Era.
		A simple explanation would be that the feudal character of the seigneuries entailed a growth path that was slower than in areas of capitalistic agriculture, and that, in consequence, the commercial class of French America was relatively underdeveloped.
		By the time of francophone emigration from the seigneuries, agriculture in the rest of the province was organized under thoroughly capitalistic institutions.
		The seigneurial system was not abolished until 1854, but complaints about it mounted from the 1790s, and intensified first out-migrations to the United States in the early 1830s.
	www.upei.ca /~rneill/canechist/topic_11.html (6505 words)

	GSK Inc.: Media Room: News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Seigneuries and Longueuil-Est CLSCs provide this service through an asthma education centre (AEC), to which asthma patients may be referred by physicians, pharmacists and other health professionals in the region, such as respiratory therapists and nurses.
		As part of the activities of the asthma education centre and of the PRIISME program at the Seigneuries and Longueuil-Est CLSCs, health professionals in the region are urged to refer their patients to the centre, while remaining fully responsible for their follow-up.
		In fact, according to the Réseau québécois Asthme-MPOC (MPOC is the French acronym for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), the results of educational intervention among asthma patients show a reduction of at least 50% in the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations, and in absenteeism.
	www.gsk.ca /en/media_room/news/010430.php (560 words)

	Civilization.ca - VMNF - The Seigneurs
		By that time many of the seigneuries had passed from the traditional class of seigneurs into the possession of habitants, public servants and prominent persons who had been enriched by trade or in the exercise of their professions.
		They found buyers in the few aristocrats, members of the bourgoisie and soldiers of French origin who were determined to stay in the country, as well as in some English soldiers and middle-class immigrants.
		Accelerated population growth soon made the seigneuries profitable, the more so since many proprietors had no qualms about exploiting their habitants, who were still subject to the duties and obligations prescribed under the previous regime.
	www.warmuseum.ca /vmnf/popul/seigneurs/13-en.htm (346 words)

	Massicotte Organization of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In return, the seigneur had certain feudal rights over his tenants: to receive token rent payments from them, to require them to use his mill for grinding their grain, to demand various work services from them.
		were more interested in the fur trade than they were in farming, and the seigneuries were laid out to give maximum access to the rivers that were the main routes to the interior.
		Each seigneury (or, long lot) had a fairly narrow frontage on the river, but extended far back from it.
	members.macconnect.com /users/m/mactosh/long_lots.html (569 words)

	Seigneurial system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This article is about the seigneurial system in New France.
		A comparable seigneurial system was the patroon system of heritable land holdings in the Hudson River Valley that was established by the Dutch West India Company.
		The Company granted seigneurial powers to the "patrons" who paid for the transport of settlers in New Netherlands.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Seigneurial-system.htm (672 words)

	Entre Ville et Campagne: L'essor du village dans les seigneuries du Bas-Canada. by Catherine Desbarats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This book's main strength lies in its extensive descriptions of a hitherto obscure phenomenon: that of village growth within the seigneuries of Lower Canada.
		To explain this flurry of change throughout the seigneurial lowlands, Courville has invoked broad factors such as `demographic and urban growth,' a `growing market economy,' and, in some cases, the actions of individual seigneurs, merchants, or wealthy peasants.
		His research has also begun to reveal the possible importance of local markets for farm output other than wheat, for labour, and for rural industries: over a fifth of rural dwellers (in 1831, at least) appear to be grouped in villages, where they are often occupied in non-farm activities.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/731/campagne8.html (681 words)

	Civilization.ca - VMNF - The Fur Trade in New France: Voyageurs and Hired Men
		The seigneuries surrounding Trois-Rivières followed with 30 percent of their male population.
		A full 20 to 30 percent of the men living in the seigneuries located on the south shore of the Saint-Lawrence facing Montréal, from Verchères to Châteaugay, made trips to the Pays d'en Haut.
		The seigneuries located on the north shore of the Saint- Lawrence facing Montréal, those from the Lower Richelieu valley, the city of Québec and the surrounding seigneuries only contributed 5 to 6 percent of their male population.
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/popul/coureurs/resident.htm (612 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Territory between the seigneuries and the new boundary was laid out in townships, allowing freehold ownership of land, for English settlement.
		In 1791, the province was split between the western townships, dubbed `Upper Canada', and the seigneuries and eastern townships and the Gaspé, dubbed `Lower Canada'.
		River, in the Laurentian hills behind the north-shore seigneuries, and in the gap between the older eastern townships and the south-shore seigneuries.
	www.equality.qc.ca /history.htm (2185 words)

	Civilization.ca - VMNF - The Seigneurs
		The early seigneuries were all established along the St. Lawrence river, around the town of Quebec and the outposts at Trois Rivières (called Three Rivers by the English) and Ville Marie (now Montreal).
		Later, from 1670 onwards, new seigneuries were granted with a view to starting settlement in the Richelieu valley, Beauce and Lake Champlain regions.
		By the time the French regime came to its close, a population of 65,000 was spread over 250 seigneuries.
	www.warmuseum.ca /vmnf/popul/seigneurs/01-en.htm (256 words)

	long lots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The feudal elements of this system quickly became irrelevant in the New World, where land was available in abundance for tenants who felt oppressed and wanted to move, but the long-lot system of land division associated with seigneuries remains vividly imprinted on the landscape of North America that were settled by French-speaking people.
		The French settlers were more interested in the fur trade than they were in farming, and the seigneuries were laid out to give maximum access to the rivers that were the main routes to the interior.
		The principal mark they have left on the land is the remnants of their land-division system, which are still visible on modern topographic maps of Detroit, of Green Bay, and of Vincennes, Indiana, as well in Louisiana.
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/long_lots.html (596 words)

	SUZERAINTY - LoveToKnow Article on SUZERAINTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		54), explains that there are two kinds of public seigneuries, that is, sovereign seigneurs, possessing summum imperium, and suzerains, Les suzeraines sont celles qui ont puissance suprieure mais non supreme.
		Elsewhere he says that suzerainty is a form of public seigneuries which has been usurpe par les particuliers pour laquelle exprimer ii nous a fallu forger un mot exprs, et lappeller suzerainet, mot qui est aussi trange comme celle espce de seigneuries est absurde (p.
		Loyseau adds, Seigneurie suzeraine est dignit dun fief ayant justice (p.
	99.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SU/SUZERAINTY.htm (919 words)

	Seigneuries de La Chesnaye et de Repentigny : les actes notariés
		Bail à ferme des terres composant le manoir seigneurial de la seigneurie de Repentigny, par Jean-Baptiste Legardeur (de Repentigny), écuyer, conseiller du Roi au Conseil Souverain et Seigneur de Repentigny demeurant en la ville de Villemarie, à Jean-Baptiste Thouin et Germain Thouin, laboureur, demeurant à Derepentigny, son frère.
		Marché de charpenterie d'un moulin de la Seigneurie de Lachesnaye entre Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny, écuyer, capitaine d'une compagnie du détachement de la Marine et Seigneur de Lachesnaye et Agathe St Père, son épouse, et Léonard Paillé dit Paillard, maître charpentier, de la ville de Villemarie.
		Concession d'une terre située dans la seigneurie de Lachesnaye sur la rivière de Lassomption du côté du nord; par Pierre Legardeur, écuyer, seigneur de Lachenaie et capitaine d'une compagnie des troupes du détachement de la Marine, à Michel Lepallieur, notaire royal de l'île de Montréal.
	webperso.mediom.qc.ca /~lgder/html/seigneuries_actes_notaries.html (2574 words)

	RootsWeb: GEN-FR-L Re: Seigneuries: Definition Please (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seigneurial system, an institutional form of land distribution and
		population lived on seigneurial land until the mid-19th century.
		of francophone society, and the seigneurial system was maintained.
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/GEN-FR/1997-07/0869924771 (691 words)

	Phase III, Bilan environnemental de Varennes-Contrecoeur, 30 novembre 2000
		Francine Trépanier, Chair of the des Seigneuries Zone d'intervention prioritaire (ZIP) [priority action area] committee, accepted the document on behalf of the many organizations and individuals from the community involved in the conservation of the St. Lawrence.
		It is designed for the public, industry, municipalities and non-government organizations that wish to become involved in the conservation of their natural heritage.
		In this regard, the des Seigneuries ZIP committee will host a regional consultation with the public on December 1 and 2 at Repentigny City Hall, 435, boulevard Iberville, in Repentigny, for the purpose of determining priorities and the measures to be taken in implementing an ecological restoration action plan (ERAP) for this area.
	www.slv2000.qc.ca /communiques/phase3/2000_3011_communautaire_a.htm (2296 words)

	The Seigneurial System
		The government had a system for developing the land in New France, it was called the seigneurial system.
		The seigneur had to attract habitants (settlers) to come to develop farms on his seigneury.
		Almost all the seigneuries boarded the St. Lawrence and the Richelieu rivers.
	www.emsb.qc.ca /laurenhill/history/canada/athar2.htm (461 words)

	Cadastres Abrégés land ownership records for the Seigniories.
		In this system, large areas of land called "Seigneuries" were granted to officials and friends of the regime as rewards for services rendered.
		In return for the loss of their seigneurial rights and previledges, the Act allowed for compensation to the Seigneurs based on the value of their properties and the annual rent that it yielded.
		They are the Seigneury of Beauharnois, the largest in Quebec, owned by an English merchant and his heirs and the Seigneury of Châteauguay, owned by the Sisters of Charity of the General Hospital of Montreal, known as the "Gray Nuns".
	www.rootsweb.com /~qcchatea/cadastre/cadastre.htm (819 words)

	Archives nationales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Les seigneuries : le découpage du territoire par bandes étroites et allongées, un paysage qui se répète à travers l'Amérique française
		Ils seront plus ou moins larges selon qu'il s'agit de la division du territoire en seigneuries concédées aux seigneurs, en censives concédées par les seigneurs aux colons, ou bien encore en lots de village sur lesquels s'établissent les dirigeants, les commerçants et les artisans.
		En règle générale, dans une même seigneurie, les habitants sont installés sur des terres en bordure du cours d'eau.
	www.anq.gouv.qc.ca /conservation/instruire/cartes/seigneuries.htm (711 words)

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