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It was the policy of Henry III. to collect the earldoms into the hands of his relations.

From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by Little, A. G. (Andrew George)

Whether all the old Mercian region made one earldom is uncertain; most likely it did not extend to the western limits, as several smaller earldoms appear to have been located along the Welsh border.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

Empires, duchies, principalities, earldoms, baronies, private estates, could alone be preserved entire, amidst the general hostility with which all were surrounded, by descending to a single occupant.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various

For some years the real governor of England was Earl Godwine, who kept his own earldom of Wessex, and managed to procure other smaller earldoms for his sons.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

It was probably this fact that induced Canute to establish so many earldoms in the Southwest, particularly in the Severn Valley.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus