fiefs 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 "fiefs" in a sentence
1. Syria has been Balkanised into a patchwork of fiefs
2. Owners of Benefices gradually succeeded in turning their lifelong grants into hereditary feudal property, or fiefs
3. Owners of Benefices gradually succeeded in turning their lifelong grants into hereditary feudal property, or fiefs
4. Most notable were the Assizes of Bretagne and Champagne on the inheritance of fiefs (12th-14th centuries).
5. According to the history of Miskawayh, they began distributing iqtas (fiefs in the form of tax farms) to their supporters.
6. Bishoprics were in the royal gift and, as sizeable landed endowments, they were like fiefs.
7. They oversaw the administration of Buddhist temples (ji) and Shinto shrines (sha), many of which held fiefs.
8. It had no fiefs to be the subject of investiture, no peasant tenure, no peasant serfs.
9. The Ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.
10. This once pleasant city of 5m people is now divided into a patchwork of small fiefs controlled by rival guerrilla groups.
11. During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established
12. Spanish Netherlands Most of the Imperial and French fiefs in what is now the Netherlands and Belgium were united in a personal union by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy in 1433.
13. Subsequently, the House of Plantagenet from Anjou inherited the English throne under Henry II, adding England to the budding Angevin Empire of fiefs the family had inherited in France including Aquitaine.
14. Examples of in a sentence During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or Benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.
15. An analytical study of the French Apanages from their creation to the end of the Capetian period, this pioneering book offers an explanation of why the French kings began the practice of granting fiefs to their younger sons, and why they introduced the curious inheritance restrictions which limited succession in an apanage to direct heirs of the original holder.