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Examples of fief
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In 1279 it became a fief of the Orsini family, who sold it to the Chigi in 1661.
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If a province of Serbia can decide its own future, he argues, why not his fief?
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He also renamed Congo as Zaire, and ruled it as his personal fief for 32 years.
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Another bit in the south is a private fief with ties to shady elements in Russia.
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His fief was confiscated, and his son should normally have been executed as well.
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The Duchy of Burgundy proper was seized as a reverted fief by the French crown.
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Living either in Naples or Spain the Borgia's ruled their fief through governors.
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The general is popular in his northern fief, but has a reputation for cruelty.
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But apart from that, Sheffield has been an unshakeably Labour fief since 1931.
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- A piece of land held under the feudal system
- The fief (alternatively, fee, feoff, fiefdom) or feudum (in Latin), under the system of medieval European feudalism, often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a lord to a vassal who held seisin in return for a form of allegiance (usually given by homage and ...
- An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; Something over which one has rights or exercises control; An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy
- A grant of something of value, most often land, from a lord to his vassal.
- A unit of land held by a vassal from a lord in return for military service. Fiefs were conferred in an original grant, a grant which stipulated the conditions under which it could be transferred by marriage, inheritance, or under what conditions it would fall into default.
- Heritable lands held under tenure or fealty to a lord, and is also called a "holding"
- A piece of land, a benefice, an honour or a right held on the condition of giving military and other services to the feudal lord in return for receiving protection.
- A division of land given in a benefice by a lord to his vassal.
- A feudal estate in land. See Feudalism.
