Family seat

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Family seat, or simply seat, is the main home of a noble or landowning family. It shows the family’s social, economic, political, or historic ties to a place. Some families derive their dynasty name from their seat, or name the seat after their dynasty (for example, Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Windsor). The term first appears in the 11th-century Domesday Book as caput. Today the word is still used in the British Isles. A clan seat is the seat of the chief of a Scottish clan.