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. |
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And his majesty received them kindly and benignantly, and ordered that they should be treated like his other subjects and vassals. |
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But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs. |
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Lords who unjustly dispossess their vassals can expect punishment from a higher authority. |
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Moscow harrumphed when former vassals joined first NATO and then the EU, but it did not seek actively to stop them. |
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It means that these actions are the giftings of free men and not the obligated duties of bonded state vassals. |
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Until the 17th century, Japan under the shogunate was administered by a military establishment made up of vassals and enfeoffed nobles. |
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In the XVII century, the area was still feudal property and its inhabitants vassals. |
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Many bishops and abbotts had powers over vassals similar to those exercised by secular lords. |
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It has been restored a lot of times and in the past the feudal vassals used to live here. |
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He renounces, together with his vassals, the Norman territories. It is a productive period for commerce, art and architecture. |
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The longer this went on, the more diluted the family tie became and the more dependent the ruler became on the combined strength of the vassals. |
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Gonfanon: a banner attached to a lance and ending in several tails under which the vassals of a lord rallied in times of war. |
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The chartered companies originated in the feudal practice of sovereigns granting fiefs to vassals in exchange for acceptance of obligations to the suzerain. |
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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. |
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We had nothing but the political, military and economic bonds a hegemonic power had imposed on its vassals. |
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Mr Putin simply flipped the formula, turning owners into vassals who were allowed to keep their property at his discretion. |
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You simply want secure fiefdoms for the members of your cliques at the expense of making others into vassals with even fewer rights than hitherto. |
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It seems that, as the United States need their troops in the Middle East, they are sub-contracting this operation, which is now of secondary importance, to their European vassals. |
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Following a hierarchical order, this sinister farandole visited everyone: the Pope, the emperor and his vassals, the bourgeoisie, merchants, artisans, and the most humble of peasants. |
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The citizens of Europe want to feel secure against the threat of violence, external or internal, but they do not want to be the vassals of any unilateral power, even if it appears in the guise of an ally. |
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It codified procedures for criminal trials and protections for vassals from ejection from the land. |
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The following year was devoted to suppressing Mesopotamia and other Parthian vassals who had backed Niger. |
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Later in 1199, Richard was killed during a siege involving one of his vassals. |
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The Anarti, together with the Celtic Cotini, are described by Tacitus as vassals of the powerful Quadi Germanic people. |
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This bailout has made citizens vassals to European banks! |
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As the devil uses witches, To be their cully for a space, That, when the time's expir'd, the drazels For ever may become his vassals. |
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Bishops were required to do homage to the king for their lands, just like earls and barons, who were vassals of the crown. |
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The vassals of Ormuz, the Shia Jarwanid dynasty came to rule eastern Arabia in the 14th century. |
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They were vassals of James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland as their lands fell within his territory. |
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By the time the Byzantine civil wars had ended, the Ottomans had defeated the Serbians and subjugated them as vassals. |
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Surrounding the Big Kahuna are dozens of vassals, each committed to assuring that he only hears or sees what they want him to know. |
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At the most, a few Armenian noble families dominated certain districts as feudal vassals of the neighboring imperial suzerains, serving as buffers between the powerful empires that surrounded them. |
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In the Kamakura period the authority of the shugo was essentially limited to security matters—suppressing rebellion, apprehending murderers, and mustering out vassals for service in Kyōto. |
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In 1782 Rama I of Siam established suzerainty over parts of Sip Song Chu Tai and over the next century the Siamese rulers came to consider the Tai of Sip Song Chu Tai as their vassals. |
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The aids that the lord of the manor could demand from the inhabitants of his domain, peasants as well as vassals, were called taille and developed into the royal taille, or tallage, a direct tax levied by sovereigns. |
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The kiss also served as a sign of trust between feudal lords and vassals. |
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But the archbishop faced considerable opposition from his lesser vassals, the vavasours, who revolted on his return to Milan after supporting Conrad in Burgundy. |
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The contemporaneous 16th-dynasty rulers minor Hyksos kings who ruled in Upper Egypt simultaneously with those of the 15th dynasty were probably vassals of the latter group. |
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We must not allow ourselves to be reduced to the blindly obedient vassals of the USA, let alone to being the paymasters of its belligerent policies. |
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The vassals were subject to their lords, who in turn were subject to barons or kings. |
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The term bachelor in the 12th century referred to a knight bachelor, who was too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner. |
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The Hebrides were now part of the Kingdom of the Isles, whose rulers were themselves vassals of the Kings of Norway. |
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The Hebrides were now part of Kingdom of the Isles, whose rulers were themselves vassals of the Kings of Norway. |
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Over time, some of the king's vassals would grow so powerful that they often posed a threat to the king. |
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Philip did not participate directly in these actions, but he allowed his vassals and knights to help carry it out. |
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Unbeknownst to them, Singhasari collapsed in 1293 due to a revolt by Kadiri, one of its vassals. |
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Unlike today's farmers, vassals under feudalism were bound to cultivating their lord's land. |
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The Ostrogoths became vassals of the Huns until the death of Attila, when they revolted and regained independence. |
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Both were vassals of the king of Norway, and they appealed to him as dispute mediator. |
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Thus, the nobility of Toulouse, Foix and other vassals of the Crown of Aragon were defeated. |
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It invested the king and his bureaucracy with absolute powers and reduced the authority of the often rebellious vassals. |
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Yermak noted that many of these peoples were nothing more than vassals and that they were quite diverse in terms of race, language, and religion. |
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At the time, some Jurchen clans were vassals to the Joseon dynasty of Korea such as Odoli and Huligai. |
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The Ming divided them into 384 guards, and the Jurchen became vassals to the Ming Empire. |
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Especially after 1586 when he had conflicts with vassals about his heir, Wanli decided to not hold the council for 20 years. |
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Orderic also related that Odo had attempted to persuade some of William's vassals to join Odo on an invasion of southern Italy. |
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This would have been considered tampering with the king's authority over his vassals, which William would not have tolerated. |
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In 1188, Raymond attacked again, joined by the Lusignans, vassals of Richard. |
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Secondly, Count Ademar was to be released and no Aquitanian vassals were to be charged or penalised. |
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He also received the homage of two of Richard's vassals, Geoffrey de Rancon and Bernard of Brosse. |
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After the Norman Conquest, the kings of England were vassals of the kings of France for their possessions in France. |
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Tradition demanded that vassals approach their liege unarmed with heads bare. |
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Sweyn and Harold called up their own vassals, but neither side wanted a fight, and Godwin and Sweyn appear to have each given a son as hostage, who were sent to Normandy. |
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The Lords of the Isles, of the MacDonald family, originally functioned as vassals of the Scottish, or Norwegian, kings who ruled the Western Isles. |
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All the native Welsh princes were to be vassals of Llywelyn and it is from this point that the independent history of the kingdom of Gwynedd comes to an end. |
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At Christmas 1085, William ordered the compilation of a survey of the landholdings held by himself and by his vassals throughout the kingdom, organised by counties. |
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This was largely focused on the west coast, with the Exchequer Rolls of 1326 recording the feudal duties of his vassals in that region to aid him with their vessels and crews. |
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China also had vassals among the leaders in the archipelago. |
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As vassals of the Portuguese state, the Kingdom of Ormus jointly participated in the 1521 invasion of Bahrain that ended Jabrid rule of the Persian Gulf archipelago. |
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Although confirmed in his land holdings and vassals, he was not reinstated as governor and was never again given any important office in the administration of New Spain. |
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Prestige goods obtained by trade were used both for consumption by the city's ruler, and as luxury gifts to consolidate the loyalty of vassals and allies. |
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Henry had been under the financial and physical protection of the French throne or its vassals for most of his life, prior to his ascending the throne of England. |
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The Zaporozhians gained a reputation for their raids against the Ottoman Empire and its vassals, although they sometimes plundered other neighbors as well. |
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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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Early on, manning a castle was a feudal duty of vassals to their magnates, and magnates to their kings, however this was later replaced with paid forces. |
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However, this did not result in the complete collapse of Hunnic power in the Carpathian region, but did result in the loss of many of their Germanic vassals. |
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In 1206, the Mongols, vassals to the Jurchens, rose in Mongolia. |
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It was established by the Ajuran soldier Ibrahim Adeer, who had defeated various vassals of the Ajuran Empire and established the House of Gobroon. |
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