The Lannisters surrendered and were allowed to remain the paramount lords of the Westerlands.

There might be any number of infeudations and subinfeudations to mesne lords, but the chain of seigniory was complete, depending in the last resort upon the king as lord paramount.

In various ways the pope became paramount lord of whole kingdoms during the same period.

In the time of Edward I, the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury were then its lords paramount.

Thus he was moved to summon unto his court all the paramount lords and peers yet living, that he might take council with them concerning France in the days to come.

And reigns lord paramount alone.

Nulle terre sans seigneur ("There is no land without its lord") was a feudal legal maxim; where no other lord can be discovered the Crown is lord as lord paramount.

Up until 1660, such lords would have been lords paramount.

As lord paramount, he was styled Lord King of Bowland.

O monarch, the king who is the lord paramount of all kings, and in whom alone the dominion of the universe is centered, properly deserves to be called an emperor.