{{Short description|Principal country residence of an upper-class family across multiple generations}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=September 2019}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2022}}A '''family seat''', sometimes just called '''seat''', is the principal residence of the landed gentry and aristocracy. The residence usually denotes the social, economic, political, or historic connection of the family within a given area.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tuite |first=Clara |editor-last1=McCalman |editor-first1=Iain |editor-last2=Mee |editor-first2=Jon |editor-last3=Russell |editor-first3=Gillian |editor-last4=Tuite |editor-first4=Clara |editor-last5=Fullagar |editor-first5=Kate |editor-last6=Hardy |editor-first6=Patsy |name-list-style=amp |date=2009 |orig-date=1999 |title=An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199245437.001.0001/acref-9780199245437 |url-access=subscription |chapter=Domesticity |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199245437.001.0001/acref-9780199245437-e-190 |chapter-url-access=subscription |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780191726996}}</ref> Some families took their dynasty name from their family seat (Habsburg, Hohenzollern, and Windsor), or named their family seat after their own dynasty's name. The term ''family seat'' was first recorded in the 11th century Domesday Book where it was listed as the word ''caput''. The term continues to be used in the British Isles today. A '''clan seat''' refers to the seat of the chief of a Scottish clan.
==Examples==
*List of family seats of English nobility *List of family seats of Irish nobility *List of family seats of Scottish nobility *List of family seats of Welsh nobility
==References== {{reflist}}
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