What is "vassals"

Usage examples of "vassals".

One of his vassals nudged him in the ribs and gave him a knowing grin.

Several vassals moved forward, obviously intent on listening to the conversation.

Nicholaa thought the two vassals were trying to show their loyalty to their baron and intimidate Lawrence at the same time.

The two vassals finally reached the area near the trees where the horses were tethered.

An earl does not hire, he draws from his vassals and villages service owed to him.

Extra stores had been shipped in from townships as far away as London, and his many vassals had contributed from their own stores as well.

Thomas de Vaux, of Lanercost and Gilsland, take trumpet and herald, and go instantly to the tent of him whom they call Archduke of Austria, and see that it be when the press of his knights and vassals is greatest around him, as is likely at this hour, for the German boar breakfasts ere he hears mass-- enter his presence with as little reverence as thou mayest, and impeach him, on the part of Richard of England, that he hath this night, by his own hand, or that of others, stolen from its staff the Banner of England.

Some may even prove valuable enough to make free vassals who will swear loyalty to our houses, but those foul ones, they must be obliterated.

Empire of Great Kesh was again fighting far to the south seeking to subdue their former vassals in the Confederacy once more.

We forbid him our lands, we forbid him the shelter of those sworn to us as loyal vassals, all on pain of death.

When she took over the demesne, some of her vassals grumbled about having a woman for overlord, even though it was right under the laws and, though rare, far from unknown.

Just how many of those vassals would indeed arrive, and how many go over to the rebels?

As she sourly remarked, Rhys could cursed well feed part of her household for a while after letting her vassals feed off her for so long.

The tribe created for the new Picentine citizens was Velina, and most of the vassals who lived on Pompeian lands in northern Picenum and eastern Umbria were of the tribe Velina.

The interpretation among those who mattered in Rome was that the Pompeii were Picentines and owned vassals long before Roman influence in that part of Italy, and had bought themselves membership in a better tribe than Velina.