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    vavasor; Old French vavassor, vavassour; Modern French vavasseur; Italian valvassore, varvassore; Late Latin vavassor) is a term in feudal law. A vavasour...
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    of Justice in the bow. A similar illustration was produced by Andrea Valvassore between 1517 and 1525. On 10 May 1526, Marino Sanuto the Younger recorded...
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    1036, he changed his strategy and managed to win the support of the valvassores (lesser nobles) and the military elite, who challenged the power of the...
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    the direct vassals of the king's fief. The lower vassals were known as valvassores, but could have been awarded the title of capitanei as a special concession...
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  • family of Zürich. The origin of the name is uncertain: perhaps from "valvassores majores". The first mentions of this family of Reichsfreiherren (Barons...
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    II decrees the Constitutio de Feudis which protects the rights of the valvassores (knights and burghers of the cities) in Lombardia (modern Italy). Summer...
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    location that still retains its name, owned in the twelfth century by the valvassores of Arcore… — Giovanni Dozio, Notizie di Vimercate e la sua Pieve Although...
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    of Landulf, subdeacon of Milan. They were of the Cotta, a family of valvassores and vassals of the archdiocese. In his early career, Erlembald was referred...
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    punishment for it.[citation needed] He tried to restrict the rights of his valvassores, despite Conrad's imperial edict of 1037. It was this action against...
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  • II decrees the Constitutio de Feudis which protects the rights of the valvassores (knights and burghers of the cities) in Lombardia (modern Italy). Summer...
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    the capitanei— with their vassal captains and the lesser nobility— the valvassores— allied with the burghers of the Italian communes. Aribert created enemies...
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