Feudal+lord
61feudal system — The system of feuds. A political and social system which prevailed throughout Europe during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, and is supposed to have grown out of the peculiar usages and policy of the Teutonic nations who overran… …
62Lord of the Isle of Wight — The Lord of the Isle of Wight is a title that began when William the Conqueror granted the Isle of Wight to William Fitz Osbern. This was a hereditary title. The last Lord of the Island of Wight was actually not a lord, but a lady. Countess… …
63lord — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ great, noble ▪ feudal ▪ crime, drug, war ▪ He was the most notorious drug lord in Northern Europe …
64Feudal levy — The summoning of an army by the king. The *fyrd came together as a result of the king s summons. After the Conquest, servitium debitum answered the king s need for knights; the great lords with their retinues also responded, though they may well… …
65feudal — adj. Feudal is used with these nouns: ↑lord, ↑society, ↑tenure …
66feudal investiture — /fjudl ɪnˈvɛstətʃə/ (say fyoohdl in vestuhchuh) noun (in the feudal system) the public grant of the land by the lord to the tenant …
67lord paramount — A term applied to the King of England as the chief feudal proprietor, the theory of the feudal system being that all lands in the realm were held mediately or immediately from him …
68lord paramount — A term applied to the King of England as the chief feudal proprietor, the theory of the feudal system being that all lands in the realm were held mediately or immediately from him …
69feudal tenure — That system of land tenure which had as its foundation the principle or fiction that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom and that no man possesses or can possess any part of such lands which has… …
70Lord of Liddesdale — The Lord of Liddesdale was a magnate in medieval Scotland; the territorial lordship of Liddesdale was first created by David I of Scotland, perhaps between 1113 and 1124 when the latter was Prince of the Cumbrians. He gave it over to Ranulf de… …
