Southern AE greatly modified by a 1st-generation Scottish-American mother, and growing up abroad. In other words a county is the fiefdom ruled or administered or owned by a Count.
A Marquis is a Count from a Mark, which is a county bordering hostile territory. The Normans came from a system with counts, but conquered a land that didn't have that title. At first the county-level tier of peerage were known as Barons and the upper-echelon were Earls.
By a certain escalation, several hundred years later, Earls were generally known by the names of Shires, and the major peerages were called Dukes-- though there are no real duchies in Great Britain.
Barons were real rulers, and they ruled, in effect, counties or marks-- the "Marcher Lords" who held Cheshire, Gloucestershire and other Shires abutting Wales were barons, not Earls. There was an Earl of Gloucester, but when Earldoms were created, the placenames had little or nothing to do with the man being honored.
Piers Gaveston, for example, probably never set a mincing step in Cornwall. To make things more confusing, the titular regnum over a county might be baronial, but the administrative power usually rested in the office of the Reeve or Sheriff Shire-reeve. So it is that the top lawman in a U. You must log in or register to reply here.
Word in Definition. Princeton's WordNet 5. Wiktionary 4. Webster Dictionary 0. See Count. See Shire Etymology: [F. Freebase 2. Matched Categories Administrative District Region. How to pronounce county? Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. All rights reserved. Filters 0. Words form: counties. See word origin. A county is defined as an administrative division of a state or country.
The definition of county refers to an administrative division in a state or country. Smith of East Polk County. As of this afternoon, gay Floridians can get married in Dade County. Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County. Sonoma County district attorney Jill Ravitch announced in July that she would not bring criminal charges against Gelhaus. The taxes whether public, county , or parish, were payable in tobacco.
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