Definition of Dukedom. Meaning of Dukedom. Synonyms of Dukedom

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Definition of Dukedom

Dukedom
Dukedom Duke"dom, n. 1. The territory of a duke. 2. The title or dignity of a duke. --Shak.

Meaning of Dukedom from wikipedia

- up dukedom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dukedom may refer to: The title and office of a duke Duchy, a realm ruled by a duke or duchess Dukedom, Kentucky...
- This article lists all dukedoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United...
- his eldest brother, King Charles III, who formerly held the title. The dukedom had previously been granted to their father, then Philip Mountbatten, on...
- Highness, who holds a dukedom. Dukedoms are the highest titles in the British roll of peerage, and the holders of these particular dukedoms are princes of the...
- France some were and some were not, while the term is not applicable to dukedoms of other nations, even where an institution similar to the peerage (e.g...
- Bloodaxe, last king of Jorvik (d. 954), and the first creation of the Dukedom of York, there were a few earls of York. The title Duke of York was first...
- were creations of double dukedoms of Buckingham and Normanby and of Buckingham and Chandos. The last holder of the dukedom died in 1889. There have also...
- upon Hugh Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster. It is the most recent dukedom conferred on someone not related to the British royal family. The 2nd,...
- Highness". The current royal dukedoms are, in order of precedence of their holders (that is, not in order of precedence of the dukedoms themselves): Duke of Cornwall...
- Mowbray died in exile in 1399, months after his grandmother, and his dukedom was repealed. His widow took the title of Countess of Norfolk. Between...