When she returned to Petersburg both the magnate and the prince were there, and both claimed their rights.
He lived much in Lancashire, managed his enormous estates with great skill, and did a great amount of work as a local magnate.
He was chosen for this particular mission as being himself a Hungarian magnate conversant with Hungarian affairs, but at the same time of the party devoted to the court.
Christian revenged himself by executing the magnate Torben Oxe, who, on very creditable evidence, was supposed to have been Dyveke's murderer, despite the strenuous opposition of Oxe's fellow-peers; and henceforth the king lost no opportunity of depressing the nobility and raising plebeians to power.
Henry put it down with a strong hand, forbidding all liveries entirely, save for the mere domestic retainers of each magnate.