Commandery
Commandery , noun
[French commanderie.]
1.
The office or rank of a commander. [Obsolete]
2.
A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.
3.
An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. [United States]
4.
A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. [Rare] — Brougham