1) Chivalric word 2) Chivalric term 3) Feudal term 4) Feudal bondman 5) Feudal dependent 6) Feudal tenant 7) Feudal underling 8) Feudatory 9) Feudal word 10) Follower 11) French word used in English 12) Land user of yore 13) Liege 14) Liege subject 15) Liegeman 16) Lowly worker 17) Medieval menial 18) Medieval tenant
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1) Homager 2) Liege 3) Liegeman 4) Serf
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A vassal or feudatory is a person who has entered into a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe. The obligations often included military support and mutual protection, in exchange for certain privileges, usually including the grant of land held as a fiefdom. The term can be applied to similar ...
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• (v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. • (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. • (n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. • (a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.Vassal: words in the...
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in feudal society, one invested with a fief in return for services to an overlord. Some vassals did not have fiefs and lived at their lord`s court ... [10 related articles]
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In medieval Europe, a person who paid feudal homage to a superior lord (see
feudalism), and who promised military service and advice in return for a grant of land. The term was used...
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1. The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. ... 2. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. 'The vassals of his anger.' Rear vassal, the vassal of a vassal; an arriere vassal. ... Origin: F, fr. LL. Vassallus, vassus; of Celtic origin; cf. W. &...
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Vas'sal adjective Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. « The sun and every
vassal star.»
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Vas'sal noun [ French, from Late Latin
vassallus ,
vassus ; of Celtic origin; confer W. & Corn.
gwas a youth, page, servant, Arm.
gwaz a man, a male. Confer
Valet ,
Varlet ,
Vavasor .]
1. (Feud. Law) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee;...
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Vas'sal transitive verb To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. [ Obsolete]
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Obs. Someone who, by a series of formal acts, usually homage, commits themselves to serve another, usually receiving a fief in return. The name given to the holder of a fief, bound to perform feudal service; this word was then always correlative to that of lord, entitled to such service. The vassal himself might be lord of some other vassal. In...
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a feudal inferior of tenant or a MESNE TENANT, of a TENANT-IN-CHIEF or of the King.
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[
n] - a person holding a fief
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liege noun a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
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In medieval Europe, a person who paid feudal homage to a superior lord (see feudalism), and who promised military service and advice in return for a grant of land. The term was used from the 9th century. The relationship of vassalage was the mainstay of the feudal system and declined along with it during the transition to bastard feudalism
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a young man-servant, or squire, from 1300s sense of "a tenant who swears fealty to a lord."
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[SAT terms] a person holding a fief
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a person holding a fief
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[Intelligent words] a person holding a fief
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