How To Use Vassal In A Sentence

The relation of the lord to the vassals had originally been settled by express engagement, and a person wishing to engraft himself on the brotherhood by _commendation_ or _infeudation_ came to a distinct understanding as to the conditions on which he was to be admitted. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
* The word _amakhû_ is applied to an individual who has freely entered the service of king or baron, and taken him for his lord: _amakhû khir nibuf_ means _vassal of his lord_. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
Moreover, that they should be in the hands of a powerful vassal of Naples such as Orsini suited the Pope as little as it suited Lodovico Maria Sforza. The Life of Cesare Borgia
His accomplishments belong outdoors in military feats as vassal of the King and crusader for God.
By virtue of the same right, if the demesne of a lord was so placed that it had no natural height from which to survey its extent, his vassals were made to bring sufficient cart-loads of earth to raise a mound or "motte" of the requisite elevation. Brittany & Its Byways

In the constitutions he drew up each nation or people was left the use of its own laws; gradually the duchies were divided into countships, the counts being vassals iof the king, and having in turn valvassori (vassi-vassorum) who looked up to them as liege-lords, while ranking over all were the missi dominici who in the king's name saw to it that justice was meted out to everyone. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Vassal am I to the youth up yonder," the gilla made answer. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
Man Singh, also a vassal to the Mughal Empire, had nonetheless managed to live with the extravagance of a king, with sixteen hundred wives populating his zenana, a veritable swarm of children, so many sons he could not remember all of their names. Shadow Princess
Furthermore, this High King who has forced Tarn into vassalage reigns under false pretences. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Land could be freely transferred, but the new vassal must hold direct of the king or from a tenant-in-chief. 1272-1307
“No, by Saint Mary,” said another; “he is a follower of the arch-fiend and ennobled clown Halbert Glendinning, who takes the style of Avenel — once a church-vassal, now a pillager of the church.” The Abbot
His predecessors ruled Parsumash, a vassal state of the Median empire.
The exploration of the Chinese ancient civilization involves the analysis of the early vassalage.
She passed several salutary laws, one forbidding polygamy, another abolishing human sacrifices; her treaties with the Portuguese she faithfully observed, but never would acknowledge their supremacy -- never would allow herself to be called the vassal of any power. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
I myself once rebelled against King Solomon and he sent against me this monk, the only being who could overcome me with his craft and his conjurations and his gramarye; then he imprisoned me, and since that time I have been his vassal. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A much stronger nation can also turn a weaker one into a vassal state.
The last king, who possessed only the land on the right bank of the Bosna, sought to strengthen his position by becoming a vassal of the pope.
Opponents of the treaty argue that monetary union will turn France into a vassal of Germany.
It had two harbours, and during the Punic Wars was the ally rather than the vassal of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals.
The Feudal System: 3. vassalage: warriors (knights) swearing an oath to their lord land itself was called the "fief": Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The only remnant of this custom is what is called the sasine, or a fee of certain estimated value, paid to the sheriff of the county, who gives possession to the vassals of the crown. Chapter LV
For some it was enough to attain dominion over other rulers, in effect establishing satellite or vassal states.
Vassal AI does not get upset because of Master's defensive pacts with third parties.
Under feudalism, people were born with a permanent position and vassal.
To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. Armchair Generals To The Rescue
Guala was not impressed, warned that John was the Pope's vassal and England part of the patrimony of the Holy Roman Church. HERE BE DRAGONS
The occasion of this cession was probably some league of mutual defence against the Franks, which Cassiodorus could without dishonesty represent as a kind of vassalage of Burgundy to Ostrogothia. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
For instance, when the vassal died, his arms, horse, military equipment reverted as heriot to his master. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
He was compelled to start negotiations, make peace and suffer the humiliation of becoming vassal to the Turkish sultan.
The whole world shall be in vassalage to me, but it shall be a vassalage of peace. Goliah
The impractical nature of one sovereign having to perform homage as a vassal to another, with ties of fealty that theoretically prevented an independent foreign policy, were unworkable and was a major cause of the Hundred Years War.
Both lord and vassal were bound by honor to abide by the oath of loyalty.
In the reign of the Conqueror the powerful Robert Despenser had in this parish eighty acres of meadow land, three hundred and fifty acres of wood, and two mills, with sokemen, velleins, and bordars; other land, with dependents, being owned by Gozelin, a vassal of Alured of Lincoln, named above in connection with Woodhall. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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
Here you are back on your haw-kins, from Blasil the Brast to our povotogesus portocall, the furt on the turn of the hurdies, slave to trade, vassal of spices and a dragon-the-market, and be turbot, lurch a stripe, as were you soused methought out of the mackerel. Finnegans Wake
They were expelled by another Tungusic tribe, the Ju-chen or Niu-chen (1125), and retired to Kasgaria, where they created the empire of Kara-k'itai or Si-liao from the territory of the Kara-khanides; the Niu-chen, at first vassals of Korea, became independent under Hien-phu. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The court of the king, usually known as the curia regis, consisting as it did of magnates, royal vassals, and court officials (mainly chosen from the baronage), was essentially feudal in spirit and tradition. C. France
In 1163, he attempted to firmly define his rights as feudal overlord of the Welsh princes by demanding oaths of vassalage from them at the Council of Woodstock.
In order to enhance his credibility Fedora was allowed to expose John Vassall who by then had outlived his usefulness.
I am instructed that Eleusis is in vassalage to Athens now; a feoff of the King's heir, whom, I take it, I have the honor to speak with. The King Must Die
Throughout 1171, Strongbow sent emissaries to Henry, and eventually went to Henry in person, offering to surrender his lands in return for their fief as a vassal of the king.
But five years on, George Bush and Dick Cheney are putting the screws on their Green Zone government to sign a secret deal for indefinite military occupation, which would effectively reduce Iraq to a long-term vassal state. The GOP is trying their ages old ploy of terrifying the US.
He told the French ambassadors a month after the arrest that Barneveld had been endeavouring, during and since the Truce negotiations, to bring back the Provinces, especially Holland, if not under the dominion of, at least under some kind of vassalage to Spain. Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618
About 800 years ago it was also the site of the legendary vassal state, the Western Xia Kingdom, which was finally conquered by Genghis Khan.
My preceding letters, dearest mother, have enabled you to form some idea of the Hebrew vassalage, which is one of the peculiarities of Egypt. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
Hassan can, at a handclap, call a vassal at hand and ask that all staff plan a bacchanal - a gala ball that has what pagan charm small galas lack. The Unreasonable Man
The general purport of the Constitutions, when they were at last made known, was to transfer certain causes -- for example, those regarding presentations to benefices -- from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical to that of the King's Courts, to restrain appeals to Rome, to prevent the excommunication of the king's officers and great vassals, and to sanction the king's appropriation of the revenues of bishoprics and abbacies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Exhausted, drained, dispeopled, they may chain a vassal province to their throne; but, woe be to them, upon that conquering day, their glory has departed from them! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
A considerable number of the vassals of the count held lands of other lords, there being nothing to prevent a subvassal from accepting a fief directly from the king, or from any other neighboring noble landholder. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
It's the story of King Alazian and his struggle to subdue an overmighty vassal, Duke Varrel of the Five Cantrefs. Archive 2010-02-01
It appears that he subinfeudated his lands and his various sources of income to no less than two thousand vassal knights. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
The path to the shogunate is a long and arduous journey, made easier by such a vassal as Hattori Hanzo, but in this last volume of Path of the Assassin, Koike and Kojima will tell us just how difficult that journey can be. ComicList Headlines
The German emperor claimed the title of Holy Roman Emperor, but where did that leave the French king - as his permanent vassal?
The Procrustes 'social structure is class-based, with lowly manual laborers (like the Engineer called Smith) being fourth-class citizens, their lives in the hands of the noble captain (a hermaphrodite named Ereshkigal) and her vassals. REVIEW: The Space Opera Renaissance edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
For the treaty of vassalage for Cossine, see Joaquim Pereira Leitão, "Districto de Lourenço Marques: Termo de vassallagem prestado pelo regulo de Cossine e outros regulos seus vassallos," BO No. 47 (23 November 1895): 453. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Vassal chiefdoms were the building blocks of a colonial administration, grouped together first under the authority of military posts and then into circumscriptions and districts that were assigned to Portuguese officials and within which appointed African chiefs (régulos) were to serve as frontline agents of colonial government, conscripting labor and collecting taxes, and replaced or eliminated when necessary to ensure the continued functioning of the system. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
For his part, all the king had to do was give away a few hectares of arable land to his lowlier vassals and perhaps throw in a coronet to sweeten the deal for his more well-heeled subjects.
It meant disgrace, defeat; and this fire was as a seal of vassalage affixed to my arms by those I called clodhoppers and serfs. Mauprat
These oath-takings are critical to Tolkien's mythologising of the past because they reproduce the feudal bonds that a vassal pays to his liege lord.
Wales was a vassal kingdom at that time.
This sphere of influence was expanded by the practice of vassalage/clientage. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
A vote would actually look like a vassal's cry of "haro, The New Jerusalem
He understood the practice of European vassalage and the importance attached to an oath taken to an lord.
Since when did getting published make me Google’s vassal unless I “opt out” and unswear my allegiance? BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Le Guin: Petition Letter to the Judge of the Google Book Settlement.
I assented, and yielded you the province, upon the understanding, sworn to according to the faith of loyal kings, that within forty days you assign to me its seignory as your vassal. Chivalry
And when they were all assembled, Doña Urraca arose and said, Friends and vassals, ye have seen how my brother King Don Sancho hath disherited all his brethren, against the oath which he made to the King my father, and now he would disherit me also. Chronicle of the Cid
The absorption of the Danelaw by Wessex left the Celtic fringe in Scotland and Wales independent under a vague kind of vassalage to the king. 616-80
There is a wonderful program called vassal, found here: www.vassalengine.org Where Do Board Games Fit?
In the 11th century it became an independent countship, and from the 12th century its rulers were vassals of the Holy Roman Emperor and came to style themselves ‘princes’.
In the disposition both of his troops and provinces the chagan exposed the vassals, whose lives he disregarded, [33] to the first assault; and the swords of the enemy were blunted before they encountered the native valor of the Avars. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
Taking the two key aspects of feudalism - vassalship and fiefdom - he argues that the National Socialist system of government can be seen in these terms.
Lord paramount over the empire of mind as well as matter, he alone is seized, in fee simple right, of the whole domain: provinces of which men hold, as fiefs, by vassal tenure, subject to reversion and enfeoffment to another. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
WEI YANG: died 338 B.C.; premier of Ts'in; was a concubine-born prince of the vassal state of Wei, and was thus of the imperial Ancient China Simplified
Within a month, De Courcy heard that the castles were pulled down, and, on his calling his refractory vassal to account, received a truly Irish answer: MacMahon said he had not promised to hold stones, but land, and it was contrary to his nature to couch within cold stones, when the warm woods were so nigh. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
The vassal swore that he would be loyal to the king forever.
Nevertheless, both for the Crown and for its aristocratic vassals, castles remained the real power centres throughout the early Middle Ages, combining the functions of stronghold, lordly residence, and barracks.
In order to enhance his credibility Fedora was allowed to expose John Vassall who by then had outlived his usefulness.
The Vassall spy scandal made him look out of touch; the Profumo affair squared the circle of foolish trust and bungling incompetence. Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by DR Thorpe – review
John Vassall, a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty.
Zaichenko said that UNA-UNSO activists were planning to hold the protest due to the fact that such a church service "is very similar to the coronation of a vassal, which is humiliating for Ukrainians. Www.kyivpost.com
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
The peer alights 5 the well rang'd vassals bawl His sounding title thro 'the spacious hall, The Triumphs of Temper.: A Poem: in Six Cantos.
The problem of loyalty was reflected in the ceremonial developments of the act of commendation in which a freeman became a vassal.
Read it properly to revel (or reveal for the slow of speech) in its secrets and secrete properly your resigns on the public amphitheater floor, run in the hippodrome your best horses and sail your vessels (vassals?) under the loving eye of the goddess. A Mess
And, too -- and note this well -- not the Berlin of the rouged menu and silk-stockinged _kellner_, not the trumped-up Berlin of the vaselined vassal, of the bowing _oberkellner_, not the Berlin of the affected canteloupe (3,50 m.) and the affected biscuit tortoni (2,40 Europe After 8:15
[308] By a law of the Alemanni (_Tit_., 57), if two sisters were heiresses to a father's estate and one married a vassal (_colonus_) of the King or Church and the other became the wife of a free man equal to her in rank, the latter only was allowed to hold her father's land, although the rest of the goods were divided equally. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
So the forepart Non - invasive Measurement of Vassal wall become more important.
The term feudal is often associated with William and the Normans, suggesting a system whereby a tenant or vassal held land from the King or his superiors.
The chartered companies originated in the feudal practice of sovereigns granting fiefs to vassals in exchange for acceptance of obligations to the suzerain.
Lords based their authority over other freeholders on two types of vassalage.
There's nothing inherently dangerous about bedbugs, said Dr. Susi Vassallo, an emergency medicine doctor who works at New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center and occasionally deals with patients talking about bedbugs. Scores got sick, 1 died trying to kill bedbugs
Military preparations against the Mongols seriously taxed the nation's resources, and after the two invasions the bakufu, lacking land confiscated from the enemy, was without its usual means of rewarding its vassals for their efforts. 1224
My house is pure, for Menelaus did not die here; go some one now and bid my vassal chiefs bring marriage-offerings to my palace; for the whole earth must re-echo in glad accord the hymn of my wedding with Helen, to make men envious. Helen
I am glad to learn of your humility and pleased to know that I need not call your vassalage to your memory, but I fear that in the darkness you have less regard for either than you now pretend in the light of day. The Strong Arm
This concept lead in the 9th century to the concept of liege homage; that is, the one lord whom the vassal must obey even if it meant the harm of his other masters.
In return, Islamabad must forswear its use of terrorism to weaken India and stop expecting independent Afghanistan to act as a vassal. A Model for Pakistan's Revival
Gilbert, earl of Glocester, the greatest baron of the kingdom, had espoused the king's daughter; and being elated by that alliance, and still more by his own power, which, he thought, set him above the laws, he permitted his bailiffs and vassals to commit violence on the lands of Humphrey Bohun, earl of Hereford, who retaliated the injury by like violence.
U . membership , and in doing so shepherded their makeovers from stodgy Soviet vassals into economic dynamos.
They look upon sending an ambassy, as a mark of vassalage and submission, and therefore make it a general rule not to send any themselves to other courts. Hau Kiou Choaan
Embittered Tarn seemed finally resigned to its vassal status and paid its exorbitant taxes without a murmur. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The fief overshadowed fealty, the benefice became more important than vassalage, and freemen began to swear allegiance to the highest bidder only.
Vane to "cozen" the Scottish Presbyterian Commissioners in the phraseology of the Solemn League and Covenant; with Samuel Vassall, whose name shares with those of Hampden and Lord Say and Sele the renown of the refusal to pay ship-money, and of courting the suit which might ruin them or emancipate England; with John Venn, who, at the head of six thousand citizens, beset the House of Lords during the trial of Lord Strafford, and whom, with three other Londoners, King Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733
The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord.
Gregory for Marcus on Podex by Daddy de Wyer, old baga-broth, beeves and scullogues, churls and vassals, in same, sept and severalty and one by one and sing a mamalujo. Finnegans Wake
From the reign of Robert, the son of Hugh Capet, the barons of Courtenay are conspicuous among the immediate vassals of the crown; and Joscelin, the grandson of Atho and a noble dame, is enrolled among the heroes of the first crusade. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Guala was not impressed, warned that John was the Pope's vassal and England part of the patrimony of the Holy Roman Church. HERE BE DRAGONS
The fief overshadowed fealty, the benefice became more important than vassalage, and freemen began to swear allegiance to the highest bidder only.
Before then personal vassalage was common, but a considerable proportion of peasants were slaves.
Opponents of the treaty argue that monetary union will turn France into a vassal of Germany.
droit de motte," which empowered them, if a vassal (they were "serfs de motte") attempted to live out of his demesne, or to enter the service of another lord, to bring him back to his "motte," a cord round his neck, and inflict upon him corporal punishment. Brittany & Its Byways
By that I mean a vassal/lord relationship in which the former swears fealty to the latter in return for control of the lands which he owns.
But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs.
Ashikaga Takauji (130558), one of the two chief generals dispatched by the Hj from eastern Japan, deserted to support Godaigo, and the sudden capture of Kamakura by another prominent Hj vassal, Nitta Yoshisada (130138), brought the Kamakura bakufu to an end. 1224
In the feudal relationship, a vassal owed loyalty and service to a lord according to the terms of their personal agreement.
Functional differentiation did of course arise in the suzerain - vassal pattern of political relations that typified both ancient and classical empires, and the modern ones of the European imperial age.
And the King had all the army dispersed all over the country among his vassals, and they provisioned the army each in proportion to his land.
Lacy, constable of Chester, raised the chief vassal of the palatinate to comital rank. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
The terms which were granted her, as they are made known in a letter from Lanfranc to William, are especially interesting as giving us one of the earliest glimpses we have of that extensive dividing out of land to under-vassals, the process of subinfeudation, which must already have taken place on the estates granted to the king's tenants in chief. The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
She was a smart mechanic, but she was still a mere peon to the vassal that owned her.
He mused for a moment and added, shaking his old head: He! ho! by Our Lady, I am not Philippe Brille, and I will not regild the great vassals of the crown. V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X
After all, the majority of barons treated their vassals and serfs reasonably well, awarding them land to grow what they needed to eat and even paying them enough to replace lost livestock.
Then, letting clothe her in apparel such as beseemed her quality, to the exceeding joyance of as many as were there and of all other his vassals who heard the news, he held high festival, not only all that day, but sundry others, and from that day forth still honoured her as his bride and his wife and loved and tendered her over all. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
A restored Stuart monarchy would have made Britain a vassal state of France.
The Koreans, who were considered as vassals, or semi-vassals, came to Japan to present their congratulations on the accession of each new Sh [= o] gun; and some small trade was done at Fusan under the superintendence of the daimi [= o] of Tsushima. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
They were declared vassals of the empire; but the emperor, Henry III., discontented with these feudatory conquerors, engaged Leo IX. to launch the excommunication at the head of an army of Germans. A Philosophical Dictionary
Our fleet will take to sea, Gossy, but it will sail to Didion Bay, not Moss, to remind that saucy kinglet whose vassal he is. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The ordering of trees may follow that of mountains (lord and vassals), and they are frequently described in similarly anthropomorphic or symbolic ways. Shan-shui
Well, mon ami," said this man, taking his stand at the hearth, as a king might take his stand in the hall of his vassal, "and what says our petit muscadin? The Parisians — Complete
By the 13th cent. the arrangements were unravelling as lords increasingly paid scutage rather than perform knight service and vassals tried to commute their own obligations.
His nameless son and successor ‡ is described as the vassal of the sultan, whom he served with two hundred lances: that Comnenian prince was no more than duke of Trebizond, and the title of emperor was first assumed by the pride and envy of the grandson of Alexius. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
But we must bear in mind that he still held his possessions in France as a fief from the French king, whose vassal he was. General History for Colleges and High Schools
Opponents of the treaty argue that monetary union will turn France into a vassal of Germany.
I, your vassal, have employed and troubled your unknown sovereignty.
Liege homage involved the vassal admitting his obligation to pay all services, including the provision of military assistance.
It was considered as an incident annexed to their tenure, that the socage vassals of the crown, and so of all the subordinate barons, should receive their lord and all his followers, and supply them in their progresses and journeys, which custom continued for some ages after in Ireland, under the name of _coshering_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
His nameless son and successor [212] is described as the vassal of the sultan, whom he served with two hundred lances: that History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
Y dizen, que los Portugueses con ciertas Carauelas aportaron por alli, haura dos años, llamãdose Españoles, y vassallos del rey de Castilla, y robaron muchas islas, y las saquearon, y lleuaron mucha gente captiua, porque como veyan q nuestra armada se haiza enla nueua España, tomassen los nuestros cõ los dela tierra mal credito. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Not only did you stand up to Big Oil but you stood up to Big Oil and won for your fellow Alaskans, as a Republican, during a Republican administration whose first family is best characterized as a vassal of the Saud family. Paige Donner: Congratulations GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin
He was battling like a warrior on the last step of his throne; El Chico remained a kind of pensioned vassal in the luxurious abode of the Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada

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