What is "fiefs"

Usage examples of "fiefs".

He decided the mountain fiefs must be united for mutual protection, for the protection of the entire kingdom.

Three tattered fiefs made into one would be too weak to withstand the Shinyar.

Lenda and Otto accepted, that they bring their best cardmasters and play one game for mastery of the three fiefs, winner take all.

Great Game simulates three entire fiefs, not just battle among three armies.

Road to the garrison castle, where the soldiers of cooperating fiefs barracked to defend the pass.

Combining their armies and strategies, the pass was guarded as never before, and the three fiefs could respond faster and stronger to any threat of Shinyar invaders.

At one period the greater part of the medieval kingdoms and principalities were fiefs of the Holy See, and recognized the Holy Father as their suzerain.

The Counts of Flanders, of Boulogne, and of Blois, joined the young king in Paris, and did homage to him for fiefs which he bestowed on them--Kent, Dover, Eochester, lands in Lincolnshire, and domains and castles in Normandy--while he won the aid of the Scot king by granting him all Northumberland to the Tyne.