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Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage..

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

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

Inthrallment :: Inthrallment (n.) Act of inthralling, or state of being inthralled; servitude; bondage; vassalage..

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

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..

Feu :: Feu (n.) A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money..

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

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..

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

Attornment :: Attornment (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord..

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..

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..

Inthrall :: Inthrall (v. t.) To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave..

Feud :: Feud (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee..

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..

Drench :: Drench (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

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.

Felony :: Felony (n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) A territory held in vassalage.

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