A cantred was a subdivision of a county in the Anglo-Norman Lordship of Ireland between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, analogous to the cantref of Wales or the hundred of England. In County Dublin the equivalent unit was termed a serjeanty , while in County Meath and environs it was a barony . The area of a cantred usually corresponded to that of an earlier trícha cét ("thirty hundreds") of Gaelic Ireland , and sometimes to that of a rural deanery in the medieval Irish church . Paul Mac Cotter has "demonstrated the existence of 151 certain cantreds and indicated the probable existence of a further 34." Cantreds were replaced by baronies from the sixteenth century.
6-508: In the Anglo-Norman shires and liberties, the cantred was originally a unit of subinfeudation ; a magnate or tenant-in-chief who received a grant from the King of England as Lord of Ireland would typically grant a cantred or half-cantred to a baron as mesne lord , who would hold the chief manor and grant sub-manors to his tenants. Church land within a cantred was excluded from grants. Unlike
12-499: A knight's fee , there was no military service in the feudal duties of a cantred. The cantred was used for administrative purposes, with the serjeanty for law enforcement, the eyre for law courts, and collection of scutage and other taxes organised by cantred. Cantreds declined in the fourteenth century as Ango-Norman power retreated to the Pale . They had fallen into disuse by the sixteenth-century Tudor reconquest of Ireland , when
18-466: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Subinfeudation In English law , subinfeudation is the practice by which tenants , holding land under the king or other superior lord, carved out new and distinct tenures in their turn by sub-letting or alienating a part of their lands. The tenants were termed mesne lords , with regard to those holding from them, the immediate tenant being tenant in capite . The lowest tenant of all
24-399: The barony became the subunit of the county. In the east and south, baronies often had the names of older cantreds, though the boundaries often diverged. In the west and north, the new baronies generally had the extent of a former trícha cét, but a different name. This Irish history article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Irish location article is
30-628: The same immediate lord, and by the same services as the alienor held it before. In Scots law , the feudal system was abolished by the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 . The length of a lease was limited to 175 years to prevent the existence of perpetual landlord–tenant relationships similar to those that existed under feudal tenure. Within the Holy Roman Empire , mesne fiefs were known as Afterlehen , which became inheritable over time and could have up to five "stations" between
36-406: Was the freeholder , or, as he was sometimes termed, tenant paravail . The Crown, who in theory owned all lands, was lord paramount . The great lords looked with dissatisfaction on the increase of such subtenures. Accordingly, in 1290 a statute was passed, Quia Emptores , which allowed the tenant to alienate whenever he pleased, but the person to whom he granted the land was to hold it for
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