Definition of Appanages. Meaning of Appanages. Synonyms of Appanages

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Definition of Appanages

Appanage
Appanage Ap"pa*nage, n. [F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to provision; L. ad + pains bread.] 1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons. 2. A dependency; a dependent territory.

Meaning of Appanages from wikipedia

- Rouvre). Louis VIII and Louis IX also created appanages. The king who created the most powerful appanages for his sons was John II of France. His youngest...
- Poitou, son of the king, in 1237. 1225: in his will, Louis grants the appanages of Artois and his mother's inheritance to his second son Robert; Poitou...
- exchanged the appanages of Orléans for the Dukedom of Anjou, becoming the heir in pectore of the Crown. After Henry's exchange of appanages, Charles IX...
- largest contiguous empire in history. After Genghis Khan established appanages for his family in the Mongol Empire during his rule (1206–1227), his sons...
- and Möngke restricted the autonomy of the appanages before. Ghazan also prohibited any misfeasance of appanage holders in Ilkhanate and Yuan councillor...
- (r. 1505–1533) completed his father's policy of annexing the remaining appanages, and his son Ivan IV (r. 1533–1584) was crowned as tsar in 1547, thereby...
- Now that the war was over, Vasily II eliminated almost all of the small appanages in Moscow prin****lity, so as to strengthen his sovereign authority. His...
- ruled from the 10th to the early 13th centuries. Alençon was granted as an appanage to Peter, son of Louis IX of France, and then to Charles, count of Valois...
- descendans de lui en loyal mariage, pour leur appanage et entretenement, selon la nature des appanages de la Maison de France et les lois de notre royaume...
- to create a working succession system—his division of his empire into appanages, meant to ensure stability, actually did the reverse, as local and state-wide...