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3 unusual facts about Bailiwick


Bailiwick

The term survives in administrative usage in the British Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands, which for administrative purposes are grouped into the two bailiwicks of Jersey (comprising the island of Jersey and uninhabited islets such as the Minquiers and Écréhous) and Guernsey (comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou).

Jean-Marthe-Adrien l'Hermite

L'Hermite was born to the family of a counselor to the Bailiwick and Présidial of Cotentin.

Jean-Martin Moye

Moye was born on 27 January 1730 in the village of Cutting, then located within the Bailiwick of Dieuze, within the autonomous Duchy of Lorriane, a part of the Holy Roman Empire, now in the French Department of Moselle.


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Aire, Ardennes

On the 1 March 1789 the inhabitants of the town, who were attached to the Bailiwick of Reims, wrote a list of grievances.

Doyle Monument

The Doyle Monument is located in Jerbourg Point in the southeastern point of the Bailiwick of Guernsey within St Martin Parish.

Écréhous

They form part of the Bailiwick of Jersey and are administratively part of the Parish of St. Martin.

Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

On August 3 of that year Emmanuel Lebrecht assigned his wife the castle, city, and bailiwick of Nienburg as dowage for life and made her "tutrix and regent" in case of the minority of his successor, with the full approval of the agnates.

Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

In return Saxe-Lauenburg had to cede the bailiwick of Steinhorst to Adolphus' Holstein-Gottorp in 1575.

Fraubrunnen Abbey

The secularized building became a castle and administrative center of the bailiwick of Fraubrunnen in the Zollikofen district.

Jacques-François Menou

Born in Boussay in central France to an ancient family, he had already attained the rank of Maréchal de camp in 1789, when he was elected by the Second Estate of the bailiwick of Touraine to the Estates General in 1789.

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel

His political life began when he was elected deputy to the Estates-General of 1789 by the clergy of the Bailiwick of Huningue.

Jersey child abuse investigation 2008

In 2011, Leah McGrath Goodman, an American journalist, claimed that she was banned from re-entering either the United Kingdom or the Island and Bailiwick of Jersey for a period of two years, whilst in the middle of undertaking research on the abuse allegations.

Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Rather than redeeming the estates, however, Magnus, further alienated ducal possessions, for instance selling the expectancy to the pawned estates of the bailiwick (Amt) of Tremsbüttel to Duke Adolphus of Holstein-Gottorp.

Rail transport in the United Kingdom

Rail transport in Alderney: discusses the railway in Alderney, in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the only working railway in the Channel Islands.

Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers

Earl Ferrers was a Vice-President of the Royal Stuart Society and Grand Prior of the Grand Bailiwick & Priory of England and Wales of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem.

Thomas Verny

Lawyer in the Parliament of Toulouse, Thomas Verny was elected député of the third estate of the bailiwick of Montpellier in the Estates-General of 1789

Vergée

In the Channel Islands, it is a standard measure of land, but the statutory definition differs between the bailiwicks.


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