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...
- largest contiguous empire in history. After Genghis Khan established appanages for his family in the Mongol Empire during his rule (1206–1227), his sons...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- as Ivan increased its wealth and purchased more land, including entire appanages from bankrupt princes. Ivan was also able to convince the head of the...
- surviving son of Ivan III and his wife Sophia Paleologue. Since 1519, his appanages included Dmitrovskoe knjazevstvo. When his elder brother Vasily III ascended...
- death of Gaston, the appanage of the Duchy of Orléans reverted to the Crown. His nephew, Louis XIV, then gave Gaston's appanages to his younger brother...
- 1752–1753 of her husband and brother-in-law of, respectively, the ducal appanage of Mirow and of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Elisabeth Albertine...