castellany

Noun

castellany (plural castellanies)

1. (historical) The office of a castellan, the lordship of a castle.
   • The complaints and remonstrances of the Communes were loud and indignant, and they demanded the restitution of the castellanies of Lille and Douai, which had been wrested from them by force and treachery.1848 September, “Jacques van Artevelde (commonly called "the brewer of Ghent.")”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 250
   • Yet the consellers main concern was not this, so much as the fact that a number of Manresan citizens held certain '''franquitates, which included feudal dues, rents, or lands held in allod, within the disputed ''castellanies.2015, Jeff Fynn-Paul, The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie
2. (historical) The jurisdiction of a castellan, the district controled by a castle.
   • Inhabitants of the castellany of Bytom were classified according to status, ethnicity, and implicitly geographic mobility and recent resettlement.2008, Piotr Gorecki, Parishes, Tithes, and Society in Earlier Medieval Poland C. 1100-C. 1250, page 99

   Synonyms:

   castellate, castlery