Crossword clues for fief
fief
- Vassal's land
- Estate of a feudal lord
- Medieval estate
- Lord's holding
- Vassal's venue
- Lord's realm
- Feudal domain
- Where the lord's work is done?
- Vassal's plot of land
- Medieval domain
- Lord’s domain
- Land in a feudal system
- Feudal lord's realm
- Feudal inherited land
- Estate of old
- Estate held on condition of service
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fief \Fief\, n. [F. fief; of German origin, and the same word as E. fee. See Fee, and cf. Feud, a tief.] (Law) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also feoff, 1610s, from French fief (12c.) "a 'feud,' possession, holding, domain; feudal duties, payment," from Medieval Latin feodum "land or other property whose use is granted in return for service," widely said to be from Frankish *fehu-od "payment-estate," or a similar Germanic compound, in which the first element is from Proto-Germanic *fehu-, making it cognate with Old English feoh "money, movable property, cattle" (see fee). Second element perhaps is similar to Old English ead "wealth" (see Edith).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An estate held of a superior on condition of military service. 2 Something over which one has rights or exercises control. 3 (qualifier: metaphor) An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.
WordNet
n. a piece of land held under the feudal system [syn: feoff]
Wikipedia
A fief was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty. The fees were often lands or revenue-producing real property held in feudal land tenure: these are typically known as fiefs or fiefdoms. However, not only land but anything of value could be held in fee, including governmental office, rights of exploitation such as hunting or fishing, monopolies in trade, and tax farms.
Usage examples of "fief".
According to it, the Franks, uniting with the barons of Antioch and its fiefs, abetted by certain Knights Templars and whatever forces could be recruited in Tripoli and Jerusalem, would go against Islam in the east and north, rescue Edessa, and repair the bulwarks of Antioch against the danger of invasion.
Sir William Scrope, earl of Wiltshire, in 1393, and by his subsequent attainder for high treason and the confiscation of his estates, became a fief of the English crown.
Jehan, que notre fief de Tirechappe ne rapporte, en mettant en bloc le cens et les rentes des vingt-une maisons, que trente-neuf livres onze sous six deniers parisis.
Moreover, the Hojo based their rule on an epochal formulary, the Jdei Code of 1232, which contained detailed provisions dealing with those matters that were of most concern to the members of a warrior class, including the duties of land stewards and constables, the distribution of fiefs, and the settlement of armed disputes.
Hence, the feudal baron is invested with his fief by the suzerain, holds it from him, and to him it escheats when forfeited or vacant.
Despair, because after six years of rectifying all the wrongs Gerent had heaped on this tiny village, once more a whoring, drunken knight was lord of this fief.
There is a strip of land bordering Gyer and Dunsted that the people of both fiefs have disputed the ownership of for many years.
This was the first time that Omi had been in close contact with his uncle, for he was a very minor link in the clan chain, and his fief of Anjiro and the surrounding area poor and unimportant.
Flan ders, though a fief of France, remained Urbanist largely because the Count of Flanders was following a pro-English policy in the war.
He accordingly took possession of Comachio and some other places, pretending they were allodial estates belonging to the duke of Modena, and fiefs of the emperor, to which the holy see had no lawful claim.
He resided in the castle of Wolfenbuttel, and possessed no more than a sixth part of the allodial estates of Brunswick and Luneburgh, which the Guelph family had saved from the confiscation of their great fiefs.
The honorable gifts, bestowed by the chief on his brave companions, have been supposed, by an ingenious writer, to contain the first rudiments of the fiefs, distributed after the conquest of the Roman provinces, by the barbarian lords among their vassals, with a similar duty of homage and military service.
Brecht and turned at last to face the outcaste Barrani lord known, in this fief, as Nightshade.
The fief that she had lived on all her life had gone to Quintin, but she had had her marriage portion.
Takeda-san, you are Choshu, so is Hiraga-san, others from Tosa, the Sensei and others and me Satsumas, others from other fiefs, but first we are shishi with duties above family, above clan.