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Seignory of Longford Annaly - From Seigneur Blondel
- The Honour of Longford Annaly becomes one of the last Irish Feudal Honours
and Principalities in private hands.
- George Mentz becomes the Lord of the Bailiwick of Ennerdale www.Ennerdale.org
- Lordship of the Liberty of Stoborough Acquired by George Mentz,
Esq. www.Stoborough.org
- Over 25 lordships, principalities, and baronies have been identified as being
relevant grants, rights, honors, perquisites for hereditaments within the Seignory of Annaly Longford
County.
- George Mentz, Esq has acquired the rights to the Seignory of Longford
including any lordships, baronies, and titles related to the Earl of Westmeath and Baron Delvin.
www.BaronAnnaly.com
- Mentz acquires the Seignory of the Fief Blondel et L'Eperons in Guernsey
2017 www.FiefBlondel.com
- In 1996, the sale of the seignory and barony of the Longford Annaly region
was sold by Lord/Earl Westmeath or Baron Delvin and is now acquired by Comm'r George Mentz
Esq. www.BaronLongford.com
In modern Irish legal practice, the ownership of a historical
Seignory in Gross like the Honour of Annaly functions as a superior "legal ghost" that sits above the physical
soil, granting the Lord a bundle of Incorporeal Hereditaments that remain strategically relevant in the 21st century.
Because these rights were granted in capite and often escaped the mandatory vesting of the various Land Acts, the
Lord may retain the sub-surface mineral estate (including lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements) and
the Lord may assert ownership over geothermal energy potential beneath the territory. Furthermore, the
Lord may hold the riparian and alluvion rights to the beds of the Shannon and Lough Ree, which
may enable claims for marina developments, private moorings, or sub-aqueous easements. The
Lord may also possess the foreshore rights between the high and low water marks, and the
Lord may exercise control over the airwaves and drone corridors via ancient air rights (under the ad coelum doctrine). As the successor to the "Lordship of the Waste," the
Lord may be entitled to carbon sequestration credits, biodiversity offsets, and peatland restoration
dividends. Finally, the Lord may demand seignurial wayleaves for 5G telecommunications masts and fiber-optic
infrastructure, and the Lord may leverage protected franchise rights for fairs and markets to regulate modern commercial gatherings or
digital marketplaces within the seignory's bounds.
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