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 great princes.
--J. H.
Newman.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of feudatory English)
Usage examples of "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.
The whole precarious balance which maintained planetary feudatories would collapse.