fief in English
During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs , some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms.
That way, I would retain control of my own fief , and still have the man I loved.
Use "fief" in a sentence
1. It influences base income from fief.
2. Thus, Barons usually possessed a fief
3. An Allod could be converted into a fief, by the owner surrendering it to a lord and receiving it back as a fief
4. Other towns, like Nicu's fief, Sibiu, have similar though smaller museums.
5. The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry.
6. For five years she was marooned in the Tigers'northern fief.
7. All is peaceful in our fief and the rice harvest is bountiful.
8. The heir on taking up his ancestors fief had to pay a relief.
9. WND I: 99 A Warning against Begrudging One’s Fief ( pp.823 - 826 ) PDF download
10. New Orleans now has one elected tax assessor - instead of seven, each overseeing his own fief.
11. The shōgun also administered the most powerful han, the hereditary fief of the House of Tokugawa.
12. Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has bungled and backtracked even in his fief, the Senate.
13. Innocent asserted his paternal protection of Frederick and the position of Sicily as a fief of the papacy.
14. He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief, twice seen, and well enough served by its own.
15. The opposite of a fief was the freehold, allod or allodium, which roughly corresponds to the present freehold estate.
16. Armed with a court order and with policemen in tow , he is stepping into his former fief regularly .
17. This was the year that his third son, Hirao Yoemon, became Master of Arms for the Owari fief.
18. • Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has Bungled and backtracked even in his fief, the Senate
19. • Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has bungled and Backtracked even in his fief, the Senate
20. An institution during the transition from feudal states to what is now the free ownership of property, was the allodifizierte Lehen ("allodified fief"), a fief in which the feudal lord gave up direct ownership - usually in return for the payment of compensation or an allodified rent (Allodifikationsrenten) - but the vassal's ownership of the fief with an agreed agnatic succession - resembling a family entailed estate (Familienfideikommiß) - remained in place.
21. It will also surely be harder for the Murdochs, only a minority shareholder in News Corp, to run the company as a family fief.
22. Beghin : Leon Louis , St Helier 20/09/1921 Bequeaths to Paul Leon Beghin the property 99 Halkett Place, St Helier; to Marie Helene Beghin the property Franklin House, west of Val Plaisant and north of Windsor Road, 3 Franklin Place, Fief des Meleches, St Helier, Mount Pleasant, Fief de Noirmont, St Brelade To Paul Leon Beghin the property
23. The surname Arbon was first found in Surrey where the family trace their lineage back to Abernon listed in the Domesday Book having sprang from the fief of that name in Normandy
24. In the 12th century a noble family (de Rode, d'Arrode, then d'Arros) who owned the Lordships of Rode, Vauzé, the Viguerie of Lembeye took possession of the fief which became Arrode then later Arros
25. Un Apanage est une concession de fief, pris sur un domaine seigneurial, faite par un seigneur ou un souverain régnant, aux fils et filles puînés exclus de sa succession
26. Then Simon de Monfort arrived from the north taking the fief of Trencavel. The afterglow of the excessive abuse of this crusade still looms the atmosphere and is deep rooted within the land where the name «Trencavel» still floats as a «standard bearer» of liberty.
27. Bombast von Hohenheim was a Swabian noble family from the 12th century, named for their seat, Hohenheim Castle, which they held as a fief from the Counts of Württemberg.Their coat of arms was blazoned Or on a bend azure three roundels argent [dubious – discuss].
28. Under Aretinian rule as fief of the Ubertini counts, in the Middle Ages, the castle was often the object of dispute between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, like most of the small fortress in the zone, due to its important strategic position between the Chiana Valley and Sienese territory.
29. The shrine marks the spot where the Asturians defeated the Moors in the year 722, starting the long process of the "Reconquest" of spain for Christianity, that was only completed in 1492 with the final expulsion of the Moors from their last fief, the caliphate of Granada
30. A top-secret test explosion brought Xiao Ming into a parallel world similar to ancient times.In this malicious place, as the least favored prince, he owns the Barrenest fief.Fortunately, in the top-secret experiment, an item named technology spar followed him here, giving him the ability to upgrade the technology tree.So he began to grow farms in his fief and engage in a leisurely life of
31. A top-secret test explosion brought Xiao Ming into a parallel world similar to ancient times.In this malicious place, as the least favored prince, he owns the Barrenest fief.Fortunately, in the top-secret experiment, an item named technology spar followed him here, giving him the ability to upgrade the technology tree.So he began to grow farms in his fief and engage in a leisurely life of
32. A top-secret test explosion brought Xiao Ming into a parallel world similar to ancient times.In this malicious place, as the least favored prince, he owns the Barrenest fief.Fortunately, in the top-secret experiment, an item named technology spar followed him here, giving him the ability to upgrade the technology tree.So he began to grow farms in his fief and engage in a leisurely life of