The silver ring, the symbol of his fealty, came off with little difficulty, then the buttons at the cuff of each sleeve. |
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However, before I destroy you utterly, I will give you a chance to swear fealty to me. |
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In 920 Edmund had accepted Raegnald's fealty and thus acknowledged his status. |
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Homage and fealty performed by the great men after the coronation were arguably of greater practical importance than the ceremony itself. |
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The Anglo-Saxons used oaths not only to swear fealty to feudal lords, but also to ensure honesty during legal proceedings and transactions. |
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Of all the bonds of feudalism, the greatest and the most important bond was the one of fealty, of loyalty to one's lord. |
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Nearly helpless, Harold was forced to swear an oath of fealty to William and to swear further that he would advocate William's cause in England. |
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And as he became the imperious head of a personality cult, he preached total freedom but demanded total fealty. |
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Balliol therefore had to perform homage and fealty to Edward before his enthronement. |
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Indian breechclouts and legging pants finished his mismatched uniform of style and fealty. |
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To recant is to withdraw or disavow a declared belief, as in renouncing a philosophy or abjuring fealty to a religion. |
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All kinds of groups use fear to terrorize the loners and coerce fealty from those who don't want to be a target. |
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And why would incoming members that would not have contributed to the Council's working methods in any way feel any fealty to them? |
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In the new worldwide salon, derivativeness is a virtue, indicating fealty to approved conventions. |
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It was forged by the heat of dragons' breath when 1,000 bent their swords in fealty to Aegon the conqueror. |
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It has never been part of any serious concept of America to believe that we must show blind fealty to whosoever happens to be in a public office at any given moment. |
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He made this show of fealty to a professional gasbag before he even revealed it to his conference. |
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They called the Republican bosses and their supporters Stalwarts because of their fealty to tradition. |
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Republican fealty to the interests of the investor class has been long-standing. |
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The higher nobles pledged their fealty to the top ruler, the lower nobles to their overlords, and so on down to level of the serf. |
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Certainly, lavish subsidies and awesomely high GDP growth have not seduced the Tibetans into fealty to Beijing. |
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Instead of unquestioned fealty to one's superior officer, an ambitious soldier might now have to think of cosseting the president and the public, via the media. |
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The Acies is the solemn expression of that union and dependence, the renewal-individual and collective-of the legionary declaration of fealty. |
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They brook no compromise and instead repay those who would reach out to them with furious perfidy unless they show absolute fealty to every facet of the program. |
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The New Swiss too, being primarily Terrans, had more fealty to their brother and sister Terrans in the Republic than to the Gaians in the Confederacy. |
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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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It has been the practice in Ipswich from antiquity that no tenant of tenements in the town held by free burgage do homage or fealty for them to the property's chief lord. |
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In the U. S., this collaboration with the capitalist rulers is exemplified by the labor bureaucrats' overwhelming fealty to the Democratic Party, of which they are an integral part. |
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The whole contract including the oath of fealty was part of a formal commendation ceremony that created the feudal relationship. |
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On occasion, the organizational big machers chose loyalty to liberal leaders over fealty to their own ideals. |
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Monarchs often sought to legitimize their power by requiring oaths of fealty from the estates. |
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In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory which he and his Viking allies had previously conquered. |
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Although the coloni were legally free, the conditions of fealty required them to cultivate their lord's untenanted lands as well as their leased plot. |
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This is in direct correspondence to the Germanic pagan ideals of fealty to one's lord. |
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If Mr Bush is re-elected, and uses a new team and a new approach to achieve that goal, and shakes off his fealty to an extreme minority, the religious right, then The Economist will wish him well. |
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But it was Jean-Baptiste's second wife, Marie-Anne Baudoin, who finally pledged fealty and homage for the seigneury of Rouville in 1724 because Jean-Baptiste Hertel had died two years earlier. |
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In rural and outlying regions, prevailing values tend to affirm fealty to the males of the leading clans and families with inherited influence within the traditional social fabric. |
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As the leaders of their armies, Generals are responsible for the protection of large or important areas in the kingdoms to which they have sworn fealty. |
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Depending on the player fealty, skills are enabled or not. |
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After a military defeat, the Treaty of Aberconwy in 1277 reasserted Llywelyn's fealty to the King of England. |
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The turning point came in 785, when Widukind had himself baptized and swore fealty to Charlemagne. |
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In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory he and his Viking allies had previously conquered. |
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The Londoners chose his son Edmund as their king, while most of the nobles met at Southampton and swore fealty to Cnut. |
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A papal embassy arrived in England during this period, asking that William do fealty for England to the papacy, a request that William rejected. |
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The royal court was gathered in April 1155, where the barons swore fealty to the King and his sons. |
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However, Henry successfully courted Rhys, offering the lieutenancy of all Wales in exchange for his fealty. |
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In November 1171 Henry accepted the fealty of the Dublin Vikings, the Gaelic kings and the Norman knights. |
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This meaning was then applied to land itself, in which land was used to pay for fealty, such as to a vassal. |
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On 12 December 1263 in the commote of Ystumanner, Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn did homage and swore fealty to Llywelyn. |
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However, Gruffudd was forced to render homage and fealty and pay a heavy fine, though he lost no land or prestige. |
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In 1238, Llywelyn held a council at Strata Florida Abbey where the other Welsh princes swore fealty to Dafydd. |
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In medieval Europe, the swearing of fealty took the form of an oath made by a vassal, or subordinate, to his lord. |
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One part of the oath of fealty included swearing to always remain faithful to the lord. |
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King Edward's presence was a profound shock to the Scottish political community and by late 1295 King John had renounced his fealty and entered into a treaty with France. |
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Although it owed fealty to the Angevin king of England, the principality was de facto independent, with a similar status in the empire to the Kingdom of Scotland. |
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This is the earliest surviving written agreement between an English king and a Welsh ruler, and under its terms Llywelyn was to swear fealty and do homage to the king. |
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Germanic warrior culture was significantly based on oaths of fealty. |
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In some jurisdictions, historically all property was owned by the monarch and it devolved through feudal land tenure or other feudal systems of loyalty and fealty. |
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Eystein forced Harald to pay fealty as a condition of his release. |
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The Norman dukes retained control of their holdings in Normandy as vassals owing fealty to the King of France, but they were his equals as kings of England. |
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Free men without landed property could swear fealty to a man of property who as their lord would then be responsible for their upkeep, including generous feasts and gifts. |
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Owain was to render homage and fealty to the King, and resign Tegeingle and Rhuddlan to Chester, and restore Cadwaladr to his possessions in Gwynedd. |
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