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[[File:Oliver_Cromwell_by_Samuel_Cooper.jpg|thumb|right|A typical patroon of the 17th century]] | [[File:Oliver_Cromwell_by_Samuel_Cooper.jpg|thumb|right|A typical patroon of the 17th century]] | ||
In the [[Burgoignesc colonial empire]], a patroon was a landholder, typically | In the [[Burgoignesc colonial empire]], a patroon was a landholder, typically [[Mercantile Reform Protestant]], with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th and 18th century. The practice was particularly common in [[Audonia]], [[Alshar]], and formed the basis for the existence and organization of [[Equatorial Ostiecia]]. | ||
During the [[Great Confessional War]], staring in [[1573]] Emperor Leo III, of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] started a campaign of [[dragonnades]] across the [[Kingdom of Angla]] and the [[Kingdom of Dericania]]. This practice of billeting ill-disciplined troops in prominent Protestant households in order to convince the leaders of Protestant communities to convert to Catholicism or leave [[Levantia]]. It was considered inhumane by the Duke of Bourgondia, who offered aid to the protestants who sought to leave. In exchange for their fluid capital, he granted them patroonships in [[Torlen]], [[Medimeria]], and then in the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] colonies in [[Audonia]], and [[Alshar]]. These patroonships persisted throughout the duration of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] and were the impetus for [[Burgundie]]’s involvement in the [[Emirati War]] ([[Bergendii]] landowners claimed that their patroonships were still valid and that the war between the [[Pukhgundi|United Pukhgundian Emirates]], the Trucial States, and the [[Kagazi|Emirate of Kagazi]], were negatively impacting Burgoignesc trade.) | During the [[Great Confessional War]], staring in [[1573]] Emperor Leo III, of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] started a campaign of [[dragonnades]] across the [[Kingdom of Angla]] and the [[Kingdom of Dericania]]. This practice of billeting ill-disciplined troops in prominent Protestant households in order to convince the leaders of Protestant communities to convert to Catholicism or leave [[Levantia]]. It was considered inhumane by the Duke of Bourgondia, who offered aid to the protestants who sought to leave. In exchange for their fluid capital, he granted them patroonships in [[Torlen]], [[Medimeria]], and then in the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] colonies in [[Audonia]], and [[Alshar]]. These patroonships persisted throughout the duration of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] and were the impetus for [[Burgundie]]’s involvement in the [[Emirati War]] ([[Bergendii]] landowners claimed that their patroonships were still valid and that the war between the [[Pukhgundi|United Pukhgundian Emirates]], the Trucial States, and the [[Kagazi|Emirate of Kagazi]], were negatively impacting Burgoignesc trade.) | ||
The practice later applied to portions of the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] settlements of [[Equatorial Ostiecia]], but this was not the sole system of land acquisition as it was in colonial [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]]. | The practice later applied to portions of the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] settlements of [[Equatorial Ostiecia]], but this was not the sole system of land acquisition as it was in colonial [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]]. | ||
=See also= | =See also= | ||
*{{wpl|Latifundia}} | *{{wpl|Latifundia}} |
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