A Lehnsmann (plural: Lehnsleute or Lehnsmänner) or Lehnsnehmer (also spelt Lehens-) was a nobleman in the Middle Ages in German-speaking countries, who...
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China and the British Empire. Feudalism in the Holy Roman Empire Freeborn Lehnsmann Mandala (political model) Suzerainty Thegn Vavasour, a type of vassal...
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baron Feudal duties List of feudal wars 12th–14th century Investiture Lehnsmann Majorat Neo-feudalism Nulle terre sans seigneur Protofeudalism Quia Emptores...
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Chiefdom Feudal fragmentation Kingdoms in pre-colonial Africa Kleinstaaterei Lehnsmann, for an account of what it was like to be a petty ruler Mueang Barangays...
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The beneficiary was his vassal, liegeman or feudatory (German: Vasall, Lehnsmann, Knecht, Lehenempfänger or Lehensträger; Latin: vassus or vasallus). Both...
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maker', variant of Kohler 0.1301 38 Lehner a feudal land holder, see also Lehnsmann 0.1268 39 Haas Hare 0.1261 40 Schuster Cobbler 0.1168 41 Heilig Holy 0...
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a graphic description of the harshness of life as a vassal knight (a Lehnsmann) in medieval Europe in a letter to Willibald Pirckheimer(1470–1530) that...
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Fürstenberg (Westphalia) that started with the Imperial Knight Hermann, the Lehnsmann who held the castle for the prince when it was first built, c. 1295. The...
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death of Count Cuno in 1545, Henry of Leiningen succeeded him as the Lehnsmann or vassal. After 1555, however, the Elector of Trier did not perpetuate...
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Certainly in 1236 the castle was being run by Frederick of Dahn as a vassal (Lehnsmann) of the Bishop of Speyer who, at that time, was Conrad IV of Dahn and...
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Husseren. Grafendahn was built in 1287 by Conrad of Mursel, who was a Lehnsmann or vassal of the bishops of Speyer and a nephew of Frederick of Dahn (see Altdahn)...
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Landgrave Ludwig. Count Heinrich VII von Waldeck, who had become a Mainzian Lehnsmann in June 1400 after the murder of Duke Friedrich von Braunschweig and Lüneburg...
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Speyer without permission and was to hand it over to the Speyer vassal (Lehnsmann), Friedrich Horneck. However, Count Palatine Rudolph II appealed against...
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