Landholder Definition

Landholder Sentence Examples

• The greatest landholder in Derbyshire at the time of the Domesday Survey was Henry de Ferrers, who owned almost the whole of the modern hundred of Appletree.

• Another great Domesday landholder was William Peverel, the historic founder of Peak Castle, whose vast possessions were known as the Honour of Peverel.

• Almost every English landholder of importance was dispossessed, though only those who had actually borne arms against William should have been so treated.

• It is said to have been founded about 1665 by a powerful landholder named Azim Khan, who owned large estates in this part of the country.

• In 1037 he issued from Milan his famous edict for the kingdom of Italy which decreed that upon the death of a landholder his fief should, descend to his son, or grandson, and that no fiefholder should be deprived of his fief without the judgment of his peers.