marchershipn.
/ˈmɑːtʃəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈmɑrtʃərˌʃɪp/ British History.
The position, office, or (area of) jurisdiction of a marcher lord.
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marchership1859
1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. IV. vii. 372 All this area was parcelled out into marcherships, holding from the English crown ‘by the sword’ only.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 341 Wales, where the chief marcherships were in the hands of the great English earls.
1952 H. J. Massingham Southern Marches xii. 329 His five daughters split the..estates between them,..Maud, handing on the Marchership to her son.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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