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How to use vassals in a sentence

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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.
And his majesty received them kindly and benignantly, and ordered that they should be treated like his other subjects and vassals.
But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs.
Lords who unjustly dispossess their vassals can expect punishment from a higher authority.
Moscow harrumphed when former vassals joined first NATO and then the EU, but it did not seek actively to stop them.
It means that these actions are the giftings of free men and not the obligated duties of bonded state vassals.
Until the 17th century, Japan under the shogunate was administered by a military establishment made up of vassals and enfeoffed nobles.
In the XVII century, the area was still feudal property and its inhabitants vassals.
Many bishops and abbotts had powers over vassals similar to those exercised by secular lords.
It has been restored a lot of times and in the past the feudal vassals used to live here.
He renounces, together with his vassals, the Norman territories. It is a productive period for commerce, art and architecture.
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.
Gonfanon: a banner attached to a lance and ending in several tails under which the vassals of a lord rallied in times of war.
The chartered companies originated in the feudal practice of sovereigns granting fiefs to vassals in exchange for acceptance of obligations to the suzerain.
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.
We had nothing but the political, military and economic bonds a hegemonic power had imposed on its vassals.
Mr Putin simply flipped the formula, turning owners into vassals who were allowed to keep their property at his discretion.
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.
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.
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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As the 'pares' of the empire, the Witenagemot decided the disputes between the great vassals of the crown.
The sons of vassals were sent to the castle of the suzerain to be brought up with his sons.
With two sons, however, who are about to enter the Guards, I am afraid we must be your vassals.
Ma foi, you and yours do not deserve to be treated as anything but vassals.
They replied that they were vassals of the King of Spain and wished to barter goods.
His sympathy for those he believed his inferiors and his vassals was slight.
He meant to make him one of his vassals when he returned to his own country.
Lyell tells the following story of the Prince of Scilla, who with many of his vassals sought safety in their fishing boats.
The King held a high Court, and bade his great vassals and barons, and all the lords of his venery to the feast.
Exultingly he called forth his vassals, and the work of opening the umbrella began in the presence of an awestricken multitude.
This monkey is not a bad fellow, and I intend to enrol him as one of my vassals.
They will become the feudatory vassals of the paramount States!
The Pasargadian kings of Anshan were vassals of the Median empire.
Many of his vassals had assembled at the news of his death, and followed the bier with all the external marks, at least, of dejection and sorrow.
That is to say you can readily distinguish a fortress from a simple fortification, such as is allowed to chatelains or vassals?
His allies were his vassals, nor was their vassalage concealed.
When he ceased, all the vassals showed their approval of this speech.
We are the tools or vassals of the rich men behind the scenes.
In those instances in which the monarch finally prevailed over his vassals, his success was chiefly owing to the tyranny of those vassals over their dependents.
Under a monarchy you will find none but courtiers and vassals, whereas under a constitutional government you may be flattered, served, and adulated by free men.
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