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Definition of Barons
1. baron [n] - See also: baron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barons
Literary usage of Barons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Popes: Their Church and State by Leopold von Ranke, E. Fowler (1901)
"[Declaration of all that the vassals of the Roman barons pay to the popes, ...
Payments that are made by those same vassals to the barons. ..."
2. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"The only happiness was, that arms were never yet ravished from the hands of the
barons and people > the nation, by a great confederacy, ..."
3. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1907)
"Mr. Blaauw has given a useful summary of the period in his " barons' War. ...
VII THE barons' WAR 1258 TO 1265 Simon Henry dreaded as the Montfort champion ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"barons.—A baron's is the most general and universal title of nobility; for
originally every one of the peers of superior rank I3"! had also a barony annexed ..."
5. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1898)
"Gradually a small noble class is formed, an estate of temporal lords, of earls
and barons. The principles which hold it together are far rather land tenure ..."
6. The History of England from the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of by Thomas Frederick Tout (1905)
"Early in 1310 the barons were again preparing to renew their attacks. ...
The barons came to this parliament in military array, and Edward once more found ..."
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