has feudal law and legal fiefs in existence today. Each fief has a Seigneur or Dame that owns the fief. The Guernsey fiefs and seigneurs existed long...

secular fief if he bestowed them on a vassal. All fiefs were personal and hereditary, and many of the latter could be inherited by female descent. Fiefs bestowed...

warrior nobility and revolved around the key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs. A broader definition, as described by Marc Bloch (1939), includes not only...

feudis in order to secure the support of the vasvassores petty gentry, whose fiefs he declared hereditary. While Conrad stabilised his rule, however, the Imperial...

The Fief of Viborg (1320–1534) was for two centuries a late medieval fief in the southeastern border of Finland and the entire Swedish realm. It was held...

1969) There were three types of ducal titles: the duchés grands-fiefs or dukes of large fiefs outside the territory of the First French Empire (but with no...

Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. She made...

considered to be immediate to the Empire, although they often had obtained their fiefs from neighboring princes. The imperial immediacy of bishops was acquired...

practice and importance of fiefs, deeply ingrained in Norman tradition. In Normandy, and subsequently in the Channel Islands, fiefs were deemed of utmost significance...

gave it lands. Dependent fiefs of the Lordship of Stalle included the Fief of Overhem and the Fief of the Roetaert. The Fief of Overhem was located between...

Rebellion of the Seven States, following which the autonomy of the fiefs was curbed and the fiefs were eventually abolished altogether. Subsequent dynasties also...

allowed his cousin Giovanni Gaetano (Giangaetano, died 1232) to buy the fiefs of Vicovaro, Licenza, Roccagiovine and Nettuno, which formed the nucleus...

feudalism Harold Sacramentum Fecit Willelmo Duci (Bayeux Tapestry) Fief Ecclesiastical fief Crown land Allodial title Appanage Vassal Feoffment Seignory Subinfeudation...

Kingdom of Poland   Grand Duchy of Lithuania   Duchy of Livonia   Duchy of Prussia, Polish fief   Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, Commonwealth fief...

maintain residences in Edo as well as their fiefs, and to move periodically between Edo and their fiefs, typically spending alternate years in each place...

1996), 26–27. Reynolds, Susan (1994). "Fiefs and Medieval Property Relations : 3.1 The concept of the fief". Fiefs and Vassals. Oxford University Press...

[citation needed] Habsburg Netherlands Most of the Imperial and French fiefs in what is now the Netherlands and Belgium were united in a personal union...

throne under Henry II, adding England to the budding Angevin Empire of fiefs the family had inherited in France including Aquitaine. They reigned for...

hereditary monarchs and restricted succession to thrones and inheritance of fiefs or land to men in parts of medieval and later Europe. This form of strict...

of Flanders was given the task of defending the territory. The Imperial fiefs of the former Burgundian Netherlands had been inherited by the Austrian...

The Sierra DuFief (64°52′S 63°28′W / 64.867°S 63.467°W / -64.867; -63.467) is a mountain range 4 nautical miles (7 km) long with numerous sharp peaks...

private fiefs in Guernsey that are registered directly with the Crown. Some Fief Seigneurs own more than one Fief or have several Fiefs within their Fief territory...

been warriors or government officials, allowing their descendants to hold fiefs and become knights while technically remaining serfs. The Anglo-Norman aristocrat...

such denizens of the world of commercial society, exactly as knights and fiefs are denizens of the feudal world. But so is the state (a denizen of commercial...

The Burgundian inheritance in the Low Countries consisted of numerous fiefs held by the Dukes of Burgundy in modern-day Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg...

Fiefs is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. A farming village situated 26 miles (42 km) northwest of Arras...

Malta, especially in its ancient capital Mdina. King Tancred made Malta a fief of the kingdom and installed a Count of Malta in 1192. As the islands were...

constitutional structure of the Empire. Luxembourg remained an independent fief (county) of the Holy Roman Empire, and in 1354, Charles IV elevated it to...

wanted to make all his lands hereditary, also asserted that papal fiefs were imperial fiefs. On his death at the age of 31 though, he was unable to pass his...

Le Fief-Sauvin (French pronunciation: [lə fjɛf sovɛ̃] ) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. The river Èvre forms all...