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- some way to the medieval institution of the fief (Latin: Feodum, a word which ... by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. In exchange for the fief ...38 KB (6,097 words) - 01:33, 21 July 2022
- into hands of the Counts of Toulouse as a fief of the Counts of Barcelona ... In 1246 Provence became a fief of the French Crown, when it passed ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- services, Shang Yang was rewarded with a fief of fifteen cities in Shang ... captured while making a stand at his fief in Shang. His body was torn ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- (a powerful lord who had received the fief of northern Kyushu after the ... Miyamoto Mikinosuke, became a vassal to the fief of Himeji. This may have prompted ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- to govern. The latter was probably the fief of Canute, since Boleslaus I of Poland sent his army to help Canute conquer England. == Relations ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- Hohenzollern house laws on succession, as a fief of the House of Hohenzollern ... In 1525 the Duchy of Prussia was established as a fief of the King ...30 KB (4,077 words) - 08:04, 19 July 2024
- of Perugia, a tumultuous and resentful papal fief held by Ladislas as the pope's agent, in order to effectively establish public order. When ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- Singh bestowed the Jammu region as a hereditary fief upon Kishore Singh. Apart from their sterling services, the family's intimate association ...12 KB (1,968 words) - 19:03, 21 June 2024
- the men were usually designated by their title or fief. ... # Name of a fief or place of origin. The names of fiefdoms granted ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- named after her father's nominal posthumous fief as well as in reference to the illustrious Zhou Dynasty of ancient Chinese history from which ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2022
- the Pope, asking for it to be returned as a papal fief. Innocent III was considered a strenuous opponent of heresy, and had campaigns to force ...15 KB (2,410 words) - 07:46, 30 November 2024
- feudal hierarchy, and was free to dispose of his fief as in the case of any other. When the great reform of the eleventh century put an end to the direct ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 04:42, 14 June 2023
- Early in its history, the state became a fief under the Mughal Empire, owing fealty to them while enjoying limited internal autonomy. During ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 02:44, 30 January 2025
- and Alp Tigin prudently retired to his fief of Ghazna. The Simjurids enjoyed control of Khorasan south of the Oxus but were hard-pressed by ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 18:52, 21 May 2024
- Duchy of Prussia, which was still a Polish fief. From this time the Duchy ... Duchy of Prussia, which was still held in fief from the Polish crown. Later ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- say that his wife’s father had a domain or fief there, and some scholars’ opinion is that, in the local temple libraries, there were some sutras ...16 KB (2,491 words) - 14:15, 27 January 2023
- with Edward, who refused to pay homage for his fief in Gascony. In France, Isabella became Mortimer's lover, and the two started to plot against ...17 KB (2,615 words) - 20:54, 31 October 2022
- ), was indicted for corruption, and he was put to death in 1613. His ... of his retainers, Hasekura Tsunenaga (his fief was rated at around 600 koku ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 07:45, 25 June 2024
- which was not then part of France but an imperial fief held by the King of Sicily. The removal of the Papacy to Avignon was justified at the time by ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- the king or emperor, and were not part of a feudal fief. Today the process for granting charters is done by states and is determined by the type ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
