The point I am trying to make to you is that notions of allegiance come out of English medieval feudalism. |
This development of commercial capitalism in the early C17th makes a link with Medieval feudalism untenable. |
What mattered about 1066 was that it brought both Norman kingship and French feudalism into England. |
Feudalism, European feudalism, was based on the Code of Diocletian which has this embedded in it. |
The revolution had overthrown the brutal domination of feudalism and ended crown monopolies over trade. |
There were also refinements, if not the introduction, of the system of landholding and social relations known as feudalism. |