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Barony vs Baronry - What's the difference?

barony | baronry |

As nouns the difference between barony and baronry

is that barony is a dominion ruled by a baron or baroness, often part of a larger kingdom or empire while baronry is the state or quality of being a baron.

barony

English

Noun

(baronies)
  • A dominion ruled by a baron or baroness, often part of a larger kingdom or empire.
  • A medieval land measure equal to 4000 acres (100 hides).

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    baronry

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being a baron
  • *{{quote-book, year=1887, author=F. Marion Crawford, title=Saracinesca, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It had done well enough for a thousand years, it would do well enough still; it had stood firm against fierce sieges in the dark ages of the Roman baronry , it could afford to stand unchanged in its monumental strength against the advancing sea of nineteenth-century civilisation. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1868, author=Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, title=A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The order was revoked; but the feeling became even more intense when it was known that the king was getting ready to start for St. Denis, where his principal allies, the King of Bohemia, the Dukes of Hainault and of Lorraine, the Counts of Flanders and of Blois, "and a very great array of baronry and chivalry," were already assembled. " }}