What is "feudal lord"

Usage examples of "feudal lord".

A stranger who unfeignedly scowls at a feudal lord with no superior and many inferiors, is anyhow a novelty.

Yet, at the summons, and with the approbation, of her feudal lord, a noble damsel was obliged to choose a husband and champion, (Assises de Jerusalem, c.

Sometimes the feudal lord allowed these people to surround their houses with a stockade.

The right of wardship enabled a feudal lord to reward his vassal with the marriage and estate of a noble heiress.

I was a knight, a warrior, a feudal lord, a mythos come to life, so that small furry creatures such as the one I how held in my arms would continue to people the green vales and wine-dark mountains of this so-fair world of Camelot-Fregis.

In 1617, a year after the Shogun's death, a feudal lord in Edo petitioned the Tokugawa government to allow him to create a sanctioned area within the city for baishun.

Yet why should they build and strive, when the first adventurer who passed would set torch to their thatch, and when their own feudal lord would wring from them with blows and curses the last fruits of their toil?

No feudal lord ever felt or demanded such reverence for the title of his wife—.