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A person holding a fief
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feudatory
Word definitions for feudatory in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord; "a feudatory relationship" owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign; "it remained feudatory to India until 1365" n. a person holding a fief [syn: vassal , liege , liegeman ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feudatory \Feu"da*to*ry\, n.; pl. Feudatories . A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. --Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Relating to feudalism, feudal. n. 1 A feudal vassal. 2 A fee paid by such a vassal to hold land.
Usage examples of feudatory.
In the south the chief feudatories were individually too strong to be held in a common vassalage.
Philip Augustus was holding his first plenary court in Paris, and Henry had no idea of leaving his sons and his feudatories free to resort to the palace on the Seine.
Henry Hohenstaufen, becoming aware of the sentiment of admiration for the captive among his hostile feudatories, tempered his invective.
Henry Hohenstaufen at the moment was not the affair of Coeur-de-Lion: it was to resolve his formidable conflict with his own disaffected feudatories, among them the Bishops of Mainz and Cologne and the powerful Dukes of Louvain, Lemberg, and Saxony.
He called upon the ecclesiastical feudatories of the Empire to vindicate the sanctity of oath, to recognize the inviolability of the Christian warrior vowed to crusade.
His politic head has learned by this time that there is more to be gotten by oppressing his feudatories, and pillaging his allies, than fighting with the Turks for the Holy Sepulchre.
Chinese Bannerman, Satrap of Fujian Province, later involved in the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories against Manchu rule.
Satrap of Guangdong Province, later involved in the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories against Manchu rule.
Where Bleak Fell sank in the north, the Blackwater curved to meet the Elfinwater on its journey oceanward, and at that point the names of both rivers changed, for though mighty, they became but feudatories to the thundering Ravenswater gushing down from the east.
Upon a raised throne on the dais sat the emperor himself, and beside him and near him were the great feudatories of the empire, and along the sides of the walls were ranged in long rows the lesser barons.
With his double equipment as a lieutenant of the French king and as a condottiere of the Pope, he began by reviving the dormant authority of Rome, where nominal feudatories held vicarious sway.
If he ceded some doubtful limits, an ample kingdom was reserved for himself and his feudatories.
Seven of the most powerful feudatories were permitted to assume, with a distinguished name and rank, the exclusive privilege of choosing the Roman emperor.
They had been constantly at war with the Samuri of Calicut and other feudatories of Vijayanagar.
Luckily a severe storm prevented him from setting said, but he plundered and destroyed some rich temples on the western coast, and enriched himself with the spoil This was a mere wanton attack on property belonging to feudatories of the Vijayanagar empire, for there has never been any pretence that the peace-loving Brahmans attached to these temples had in any way offended or interfered with the Portuguese.