What is "liegemen"

Usage examples of "liegemen".

The companions learned, too, that certain of Arawn's liegemen had sent war parties across Ystrad to harass the columns marching to Caer Dathyl.

My only unease is that Arawn's liegemen may give battle and turn him aside before he reaches Caer Dathyl.

Some were—we think—mercenaries, and others were liegemen to a Great Lord of some kind.

So when the messenger pounded in on an exhausted horse last night, reporting that one of Tremane's newly-sworn liegemen was under attack by one of his neighbors, the gryphons were blissfully asleep.

Each lord-kin moved in company, possessions well stacked, and the old and the very young riding either on wagons or on the most docile of our mounts, while swordsmen and liegemen of each clan kept on alert to wall them in.