How To Use Vassalage In A Sentence
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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
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Before then personal vassalage was common, but a considerable proportion of peasants were slaves.
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The fief overshadowed fealty, the benefice became more important than vassalage, and freemen began to swear allegiance to the highest bidder only.
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The fief overshadowed fealty, the benefice became more important than vassalage, and freemen began to swear allegiance to the highest bidder only.
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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
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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
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Lords based their authority over other freeholders on two types of vassalage.
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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
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He understood the practice of European vassalage and the importance attached to an oath taken to an lord.
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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
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Furthermore, this High King who has forced Tarn into vassalage reigns under false pretences.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The whole world shall be in vassalage to me, but it shall be a vassalage of peace.
Goliah
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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
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The Feudal System: 3. vassalage: warriors (knights) swearing an oath to their lord land itself was called the "fief":
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The exploration of the Chinese ancient civilization involves the analysis of the early vassalage.