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Examples of vassalage
vassalage
In 1235, Snorri's nephew Sturla Sighvatsson also accepted vassalage under the king.
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Will he defend freedom and democracy as superior to vassalage and despotism?
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The king of Kongo also held several kingdoms in at least nominal vassalage.
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After him, the dynasty declined and it was reduced to vassalage of the Artsrunis in 860.
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Raska, Zahumlje and Bosnia probably broke free from Dukljan vassalage.
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Ottoman vassalage also conferred special rights in trade that extended within the Empire.
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Mbwila, a nominal vassal of Kongo, had also signed a treaty of vassalage with Portugal in 1619.
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Charlemagne besieged Salerno, and Arechis submitted to vassalage.
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Vassalage took a number of different forms with some states permitted to elect their own leaders.
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- Serfdom: the state of a serf
- (vassal) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
- A vassal, in the terminology that preceded and accompanied the feudalism of medieval Europe, is one who enters into mutual obligations with a monarch, usually of military support and mutual protection, in exchange for certain guarantees, which came to include the terrain held as a fief. ...
- (vassal) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant; A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave; To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to ...
- (Vassal) 1) A freeman who holds land (fief) from a lord to whom he pays homage and swears fealty. He owes various services and obligations, primarily military. ...
- (vassal) The holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.
- (VASSAL) A person who holds a fief granted by a superior, or lord.
- (Vassal) A man who promised to be loyal to his lord in return for protection and land
- (Vassal) A player that gives tribute to another player for protection.
