| In modern practice, competitions are held for cities that wish to gain the distinction of a lord mayor. |
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| Many former capitals display a Palazzo Ducale, the seat of the local duke or lord. |
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| One practice in example was for a group to visit a local manor, and 'sing out' the lord. |
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| Greenfield has suggested that references to the human body throughout Beowulf emphasise the relative position of thanes to their lord. |
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| Rather than a republic, Lawrence called for an absolute dictator and equivalent dictatrix to lord over the lower peoples. |
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| Wilson also wrote two plot outlines about a drug lord in the Golden Triangle before the plans fell through. |
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| In 1355 the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos granted Lesbos to a Genoese lord. |
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| As early as 487, the area between the River Somme and the River Loire came under the control of the Frankish lord Clovis. |
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| In exchange for the use of the fief and the protection of the lord, the vassal would provide some sort of service to the lord. |
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| The obligations and corresponding rights between lord and vassal concerning the fief form the basis of the feudal relationship. |
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| Fealty comes from the Latin fidelitas and denotes the fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord. |
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| Once the commendation ceremony was complete, the lord and vassal were in a feudal relationship with agreed obligations to one another. |
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| This security of military help was the primary reason the lord entered into the feudal relationship. |
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| The first, he says, about thirty years before, had many inhabitants, many holding leasehold estates under the lord of the manor for three lives. |
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| During Japan's shogunate, the emperor was notionally a supreme spiritual and temporal lord who delegated authority for joint rule to the shogun. |
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| This poetry praises Urien of Rheged and his son Owain, and refers to Urien as lord of Catraeth. |
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| The state ceased to owe an obligation to any feudal lord beyond its borders. |
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| David's time as Prince of the Cumbrians and Earl marks the beginning of his life as a great territorial lord. |
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| They were governed much as royal colonies except that lord proprietors, rather than the king, appointed the governor. |
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| Americans sued each other at a very high rate, with binding decisions made not by a great lord but by local judges and juries. |
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| By the late 1700s, the lord keeper's role was merged into the chancellorship itself. |
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| By the time of King Malcolm II, the great protonotary was extinct and the great justiciar was replaced by the lord justice general. |
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| A lord not only had greater ability, but also needed to take greater steps to preserve their honour, lest they lose their lordship. |
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| The client owed service to his lord, and at the end of the grant period returned the grant with interest. |
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| The lord could make him a smaller grant of land or livestock, for which the client paid rent in produce and manual labour. |
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| Praise poetry was powerful propaganda, inspiring loyalty and courage from the teulu, the warband or retinue of a king, prince or lord. |
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| In return he was made a vassal lord and the lands taken from him by Llywelyn about six years earlier were restored to him. |
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| On the death of Einion ap Cadwgan, lord of Meirionnydd, a quarrel engulfed his kinsmen on who should succeed him. |
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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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| Usually, the lord also promised to provide for the vassal in some form, either through the granting of a fief or by some other manner of support. |
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| In return the liege lord promised to protect and remain loyal to his vassal. |
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| Sempringham is noted as the home of Gilbert of Sempringham, the son of the lord of the manor. |
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| They knew that my lord of Arundel had grown so orgulous that he had lately dared to marry the Earl of March's sister, without license. |
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| A vassal is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe. |
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| A vassal needed economic resources to equip the cavalry he was bound to contribute to his lord to fight his frequent wars. |
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| Philip, as Henry's liege lord, objected, stating that he should be the rightful guardian until the birth of the child. |
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| In 1202, disaffected patrons petitioned the French king to summon John to answer their charges in his capacity as John's feudal lord in France. |
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| Fulk also inherited the county of Maine, but refused to recognise Henry as his feudal lord and instead allied himself with Louis. |
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| The priory was given the care of souls in the secular islands by the lord of the fief. |
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| Ye have back-friends, my lord, that is, un-friends, or to be plain, enemies. |
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| The outsider was aware that payment of chiefery to the lord was the norm, but that some within the lordship were refusing to pay it. |
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| There is diverse of his gentlemen stolen away therefor, and some are comen to Calais, and one of them is sent to our sovereign lord and king. |
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| He gave her a good hidin' an' went to th' Blue Lion an' got as drunk as a lord. |
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| The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides. |
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| Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them. |
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| A day in April never came so sweet To show how costly summer was at hand As this forespurrer comes before his lord. |
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| The crime lord dispatched his favorite hatchet man to make sure the witness would not testify. |
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| I inform you that I will be a gracious lord and a faithfull observer of God's rights and just secular law. |
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| A Norman lord typically had properties located in a piecemeal fashion throughout England and Normandy, and not in a single geographic block. |
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| He gave a large tribute in money to Philip and swore that all his subjects in France and England would recognise Richard as their lord. |
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| Despite this, the King appealed to Pope Innocent for help in July, arguing that the charter compromised the Pope's rights as John's feudal lord. |
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| The Nobles despised and hated all others and took no thought for usefulness and profit of lord and men. |
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| Charles V summoned one Gascon lord and the Black Prince to hear the case in his parlement in Paris. |
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| In addition to professional retainers a lord could find men amongst his tenantry. |
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| This was effectively ended with the appointment of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and the king's son, as lord lieutenant. |
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| The merchants who owned the goods claimed that the King of Almain was the lord of the town, and the Bishop could not do justice in the matter. |
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| Aftir that, my seid lord retournyng to the campe, wold in nowise bee lodged in the same, but where he laye the furst nyght. |
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| If you want a ride, you let the doorknob hit you where the good lord split you. |
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| The lord made a boast of his libertinism, and frequently avowed that he held all women to be fair game. |
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| Uzziah was the prophet's king, therefore his lord and master, and perhaps his hero too, in spite of his tragic end. |
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| It was Chauncey DeGrandis, lord of the manor, trying in vain to assert his lord-dom. |
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| Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand. |
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| This is in direct correspondence to the Germanic pagan ideals of fealty to one's lord. |
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| Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. |
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| A castle could act as a stronghold and prison but was also a place where a knight or lord could entertain his peers. |
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| They allowed the garrison to control the surrounding area, and formed a centre of administration, providing the lord with a place to hold court. |
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| Donjons, which were the residence of the lord of the castle, evolved to become more spacious. |
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| Possibly coerced into working for their lord, the construction of an earth and timber castle would not have been a drain on a client's funds. |
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| He relied on the support of those below him, as without the support of his more powerful tenants a lord could expect his power to be undermined. |
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| Larger lordships could be vast, and it would be impractical for a lord to visit all his properties regularly so deputies were appointed. |
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| It was her duty to administer them directly, as the lord administered his own land. |
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| When built, a castle could result in the restructuring of the local landscape, with roads moved for the convenience of the lord. |
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| Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. |
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| Like shiro, the Indian forts, durga or durg in Sanskrit, shared features with castles in Europe such as acting as a domicile for a lord as well as being fortifications. |
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| The loathly lady pulls aside the bedcurtain, revealing herself transformed into a beautiful and true wife for having had her sovereigntee conferred by her husband and lord. |
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| The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord! |
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| I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord? |
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| On the other hand, the son or grandson of a lord, or a poet, etc. |
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| Using whatever equipment the vassal could obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal was responsible to answer calls to military service on behalf of the lord. |
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| In the case of a very furious attachment, I dare say, she would have abated two avuncular baronets, a consobrinal lord, and a corresponding amount of rent. |
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| My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. |
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| My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. |
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| To obtain either, a manorial lord had to apply for a royal charter. |
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| In addition, the vassal could have other obligations to his lord, such as attendance at his court, whether manorial, baronial, both termed court baron, or at the king's court. |
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| He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. |
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| The last Lord of the Island of Wight was actually not a lord but a lady. |
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| To allow the lord to concentrate on his duties regarding administration, he had a household of servants to take care of chores such as providing food. |
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| There is a popular conception that women played a peripheral role in the medieval castle household, and that it was dominated by the lord himself. |
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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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| This system of sworn retainers was central to early Germanic society, and the loyalty of the retainer to his lord generally replaced his family ties. |
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| But the lord had since turned out all the people, and the whole place was in his own hands, while not half the quantity of corn was sown that formerly had been. |
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| They were appointed by feudal lord conferences, and thus were nominally obliged to uphold the imperium of the Zhou Dynasty over the subordinate states. |
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| This allowed for a certain degree of social mobility as an astute free client could increase his wealth until he could afford clients of his own, thus becoming a lord. |
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| Under these difficult circumstances, a male household member seems better suited to taking on the responsibilities of leadership than the lord of the manor. |
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| The warriors form a kind of brotherhood linked by loyalty to their lord. |
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| Beowulf thus depicts a Germanic warrior society, in which the relationship between the lord of the region and those who served under him was of paramount importance. |
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| Henry was angry that Conan had turned against his feudal lord. |
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| Where the geographical distance between the two parties was significant, the lord could name a representative before whom the oath was to be sworn. |
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| However, a crown and orb was present on the lord protector's seal. |
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| The most infamous case, which went beyond anything considered acceptable at the time, was that of William de Braose, a powerful marcher lord with lands in Ireland. |
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| Malatesta Novello, lord of Cesena, founded the Malatestiana Library. |
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| Hywel ap Maredudd, lord of Meisgyn captured his cousin Morgan ap Cadwallon and annexed Glynrhondda in an attempt to reunify the commotes under a single native ruler. |
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| Dirwy was a fine payable for crimes and camlwrw a smaller fine for less serious offences, while ebediw was a death duty payable to the deceased's lord. |
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| During Medieval times in Europe, the state was organized on the principle of feudalism, and the relationship between lord and vassal became central to social organization. |
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| This system of clientship enabled social mobility as a client could increase his wealth until he could afford clients of his own, thus becoming a lord. |
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| A lord was in broad terms a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. |
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| The settlers generally were attracted by fiscal, economical and juridical advantages granted by the founding lord, or were forced to move from elsewhere from his estates. |
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| Typically, a castle was the residence of a feudal lord, providing the owner with a secure base from which to control his lands, and also a symbol of wealth and power. |
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| Elise ap Madog, lord of Penllyn, had refused to respond to Llywelyn's summons to arms and was stripped of almost all his lands by Llywelyn as punishment. |
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| Feudalism was the link between a lord and his vassal where, in return for military service and the expectation of loyalty, the lord would grant the vassal land. |
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| The area was part of the lands of the Norman lord Robert of Rhuddlan. |
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