Montferrat

[ mont-fuh-raht ]

noun

1. a historic region in NW Italy, in the Piedmont, S of the Po River.

Example Sentences

At the time of the visit to Lenno, he had just closed a deal on a villa, and surrounding houses, on fifteen acres in the Montferrat region of Piedmont, where he intends to run a residency program for young people seeking a foothold in film.

From The New Yorker

A different result, not long afterwards, attended a similar experience of Theodore, Marquis of Montferrat, when he defeated and captured Aymon, Bishop of Vercelli.

From Project Gutenberg

We therefore signify to the whole of you, testifying by him through whom we hope to be saved, that that Marquis of Montferrat was slain by no machination of the King of England, but he justly perished, by our will and command, by our satellites, for that act in which he transgressed against us, and which, when admonished, he had neglected to amend.

From Project Gutenberg

Conrad Marquis of Montferrat, a name celebrated in the history of the third crusade, had just been named King of Jerusalem by Richard Lion-heart King of England.

From Project Gutenberg

Previous to examining these witnesses we must state that king Richard was at enmity with Philip Augustus, King of France; that though he had given the crown of Jerusalem to the Marquis of Montferrat, there was little kind feeling between them, and they had been enemies; and, finally, that the history of the English monarch exhibits no traits of such a generous chivalrous disposition as should put him beyond suspicion of being concerned in an assassination.

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