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liegeman

NOUN
  1. a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord

How To Use liegeman In A Sentence

  • Natural enough he should welcome the sight of another liegeman," said Cuhelyn steadily. His Disposition
  • The occasional frightened servant scurried past every so often but the liegeman said nothing as they walked down the large hallway.
  • But it is worth noticing that none of these leaders commanded a very large force, and none is referred to as the vassal or liegeman of another. Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
  • Then a liegeman of Dietrich heard it, too. how quickly he gan haste him with the fearful tales! The Nibelungenlied
  • I heard them both aver, when I saw them first of all, and the king was victor against me in the games, and when he won my love in such knightly wise, that he was liegeman to the king, and Siegfried himself declared the same. The Nibelungenlied
  • It was by virtue of this power that English John, that great landlord, surnamed Lackland, by declaring himself the liegeman of Pope Innocent III., and placing his kingdom under submission, delivered the souls of his parents, who had been excommunicated: “Pro mortuo excommunico, pro quo supplicant consanguinei.” A Philosophical Dictionary
  • But Cadwaladr's liegeman could be seen against the gap which was the gate he guarded, as he paced back and forth across it, head and shoulders clear against the sky. His Disposition
  • Sith thou hast declared my husband for thy liegeman, now must the men of the two kings perceive today whether I durst walk before the queen to church. The Nibelungenlied
  • But it is worth noticing that none of these leaders commanded a very large force, and none is referred to as the vassal or liegeman of another. Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
  • He kept his face pressed fiercely into the knight's shoulder and shook with the cold and his terror of the moment when his noble, perfect savior revealed himself as the Baron's liegeman and dragged him back into misery and madness.
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