In medieval and early modern Europe, a tenant-in-chief (or vassal-in-chief) was a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly...

Look up tenant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tenant may refer to: Tenant, the holder of a leasehold estate in real estate Tenant-in-chief, in feudal...

overlord in the English feudal system was a lord of a manor who had subinfeudated a particular manor, estate or fee, to a tenant. The tenant thenceforth...

royal residence of King William the Conqueror, and was a tenant-in-chief of that king of 21 manors in the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire...

Free tenants, also known as free peasants, were tenant farmer peasants in medieval England who occupied a unique place in the medieval hierarchy. They...

"a head") listing the manors held by each named tenant-in-chief directly from the king. Tenants-in-chief included bishops, abbots and abbesses, barons from...

land when sub-enfeoffed by the tenant-in-chief. Below the mesne tenant, further mesne tenants could hold from each other in series, creating a thriving,...

Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of that monarch, with a holding of 10 manors or estates held in chief, 8 of which he held in demesne, i.e. under...

there were 1,100 tenants-in-chief in 1086. Those with estates worth over £30 a year were considered the greater tenants-in-chief. Those with smaller...

all within scope. Historically a lord of the manor could either be a tenant-in-chief if he held a capital manor directly from the Crown, or a mesne lord...

to receive chief rents from certain farms". A mesne lord did not hold land directly of the king, that is to say he was not a tenant-in-chief. His subinfeudated...

Domesday survey found Ernulf a tenant-in-chief in ten counties and lord of other estates under other great tenants-in-chief. However, there is no direct...

situation where the tenant of a fee (or "fief") died without an heir or committed a felony. In the case of such demise of a tenant-in-chief, the fee reverted...

mediate tenants, valvassores minores. Gradually the term without qualification was found convenient for describing sub-vassals, tenants-in-chief being called...

[belief in God]) that every tenant was under an obligation to attend his overlord's court to advise and support him; Sir Harris Nicolas, in Historic...

The Domesday Book of 1086 AD identifies King William the Conqueror's tenants-in-chief for historic Lancashire within Cestrescire (Cheshire) and Eurvicscire...

feudal system to denote a peasant (tenant farmer) who was legally tied to a lord of the manor – a villein in gross – or in the case of a villein regardant...

The Domesday Book has nine entries for Meldreth: ❧ ENTRY 1 ❧ Tenant-in-chief and Lord in 1086: Guy of Raimbeaucourt. Households: 15 smallholders. 1 slave...

some of their land through employed managers, but leased most of it to tenant farmers. They also exploited timber and minerals (such as coal), and owned...

also known as El Cid and Jimena Díaz. In 1099 or earlier, she married Ramiro Sánchez of Pamplona, the tenant-in-chief of Monzón from 1104. She was the mother...

Vere (died circa 1112-1113) was a tenant-in-chief in England of William the Conqueror in 1086, as well as a tenant of Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of...

Vagrants usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft. In Western countries, vagrancy...

the actual occupiers or tenants who worked the land themselves. The vassal of a lord paramount, meanwhile, was a tenant-in-chief. Generally speaking, under...

The Domesday Book of 1086 AD lists (in the following order) King William the Conqueror's tenants-in-chief in Snotinghscire (Nottinghamshire), following...

invaded and conquered England in 1066, he distributed its land amongst 180 barons, who held it as his tenants in chief, establishing a feudal system....

Domesday Book of 1086 AD identifies King William the Conqueror's tenants-in-chief in Cestrescire (Cheshire), following the Norman Conquest of England...

clan chiefs recognized by the Court of the Lord Lyon (with Scottish arms) who are not feudal barons, or peers. Those other armigers recognised in the degree...

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists in the following order the tenants-in-chief in Cornwall of King William the Conqueror: Osbern FitzOsbern (died 1103), Bishop...

land in England; his wife being a tenant-in-chief in her own right. In 1082, William and his wife, Matilda, gave to the abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen...

was both a liability and a privilege for those who held land as a tenant-in-chief from the King per baroniam – that is to say, under the feudal contract...