Sentences with phrase «feudal vassal»
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Henry had earlier defended a relative version of Papal Authority, earning himself the honorific Defensor Fidei, within a somewhat feudal system, in which suzereinity came with responsibilities to ones vassals.
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Some of these restrictions were legacies of the idea that ownership of land was tied to a feudal lord - vassal relationship.
The relationship effectively becomes one of feudal lord and vassal.