High glory
A high glory (Dutch: hoge heerlijkheid ) or free glory ( vrije heerlijkheid ) was an independent area with its own jurisdiction in the Burgundian and Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire in the Middle Ages . The sovereign had the right to impose corporal punishment and to have offenders sentenced to death and executed within the framework of high jurisdiction . Hunting , fishing , and milling rights were also part of the High Gloryand the right to appoint holders of local public office . A major source of income was the tithe . In the Burgundian Netherlands , before unification as a unitary state, there were a large number of areas in which a Vrijheer or army (rulership) exercised this power. In the manorial Baljuwschaft the Baljuws (bailiffs) were employed directly by the rulers.
In the history of the Netherlands the great glories and cities played an important role, some of these glories, especially in West Friesland , being no larger than the area around a castle.