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Manrent :: Manrent (n.) Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage..

Aid :: Aid (v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.

Freeman :: Freeman (n.) One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal..

Vassalry :: Vassalry (n.) The body of vassals.

Vassal :: Vassal (a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

Feudatory :: Feudatory (n.) A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

Envassal :: Envassal (v. t.) To make a vassal of.

Terrier :: Terrier (n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like..

Vassal :: Vassal (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.

Homager :: Homager (n.) One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal..

Antrustion :: Antrustion (n.) A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprise.

Liege :: Liege (a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject..

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Vassals, collectively; vassalry..

Banneret :: Banneret (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank..

Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate..

Weregild :: Weregild (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer..

Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation..

Arriere-ban :: Arriere-ban (n.) A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France..

Freeborn :: Freeborn (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

Vavasor :: Vavasor (n.) The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron..

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