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    An appanage, or apanage (/ˈæpənɪdʒ/; French: apanage [apanaʒ] ), is the grant of an estate, title, office or other thing of value to a younger child of...
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  • began to coincide with the entire kingdom. However, the medieval system of appanage (a concession of a fief with its land rights by the sovereign to his younger...
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  • The Duchy of Berry, centred on Bourges, was originally created as an appanage for junior members of the French royal family and was frequently granted...
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    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...
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    In the Kingdom of France, the duchy was occasionally set apart as an appanage to be ruled by a member of the royal family. After 1469, however, it was...
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    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...
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    private fiefs in Guernsey that are registered directly with the Crown. Appanage, part of the liege's domain granted to a junior relative Book of Fees,...
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    mentioned in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk, an appanage of the Principality of Polotsk, before being annexed by the Grand Duchy...
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    and Möngke restricted the autonomy of the appanages before. Ghazan also prohibited any misfeasance of appanage holders in Ilkhanate and Yuan councillor...
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    presence in northern England. The Earldom of Richmond later became an appanage of the Dukes of Brittany. Many people throughout France claim Breton ethnicity...
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