How To Use feudal lord In A Sentence
- Princes, clerics, and feudal lords often levied taxes, tithes, and rents as shares of certain crops.
- As the president, his staff and, most significantly, his frequently deranged First Lady pussyfooted around the paneled rooms of his West Coast ranch compound, eavesdropping on each other and then communicating in whispers the latest fragment of update, it began to feel like one of those Kurosawa dramas about feudal lords -- the Macbeth-based Throne of Blood, say, courtesy of FOX. Tom Gliatto: Beyond 24
- mortmain" were for this reason always regarded as wrong in principle, though the loss occasioned to the feudal lord by the cessation of reliefs, escheats, wardships, marriages, etc., when the land was made over to ecclesiastical uses could not be denied. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- The right of the feudal lord was also the law. Politics, Planning and the State
- In medieval Poland, Jewish estate stewards were often seen by the peasants as their direct exploiters rather than as the representatives of the feudal lords they really were.
- They were more ambivalent about Montesquieu - a magistrate in the parlement of Bordeaux, a feudal lord living in a moated castle, and an apologist for noble power.
- It was the struggle, sometimes sullen, sometimes violent, of feudal lordship against municipal burgherdom. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
- Land was held in customary tenure, the largest holdings by 250 daimyos (feudal lords), each with his retinue of dependent samurai.
- The Caliphate became a monarchy, first absolute, then nominal, controlled by oligarchies, feudal lords, warlords, tribal chiefs and regional chieftains.
- Unlike his comrades-in-arms from Choshu, Satsuma and other samurai clans, he was not bound to the service of feudal lord and clan.
