Use "fief|fiefs" in a sentence

1. It influences base income from fief.

2. Thus, Barons usually possessed a fief

3. Syria has been Balkanised into a patchwork of fiefs

4. An Allod could be converted into a fief, by the owner surrendering it to a lord and receiving it back as a fief

5. Other towns, like Nicu's fief, Sibiu, have similar though smaller museums.

6. The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry.

7. For five years she was marooned in the Tigers'northern fief.

8. Owners of Benefices gradually succeeded in turning their lifelong grants into hereditary feudal property, or fiefs

9. All is peaceful in our fief and the rice harvest is bountiful.

10. The heir on taking up his ancestors fief had to pay a relief.

11. WND I: 99 A Warning against Begrudging One’s Fief ( pp.823 - 826 ) PDF download

12. New Orleans now has one elected tax assessor - instead of seven, each overseeing his own fief.

13. Owners of Benefices gradually succeeded in turning their lifelong grants into hereditary feudal property, or fiefs

14. Most notable were the Assizes of Bretagne and Champagne on the inheritance of fiefs (12th-14th centuries).

15. According to the history of Miskawayh, they began distributing iqtas (fiefs in the form of tax farms) to their supporters.

16. Bishoprics were in the royal gift and, as sizeable landed endowments, they were like fiefs.

17. They oversaw the administration of Buddhist temples (ji) and Shinto shrines (sha), many of which held fiefs.

18. It had no fiefs to be the subject of investiture, no peasant tenure, no peasant serfs.

19. The shōgun also administered the most powerful han, the hereditary fief of the House of Tokugawa.

20. Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has bungled and backtracked even in his fief, the Senate.

21. The Ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.

22. Innocent asserted his paternal protection of Frederick and the position of Sicily as a fief of the papacy.

23. He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief, twice seen, and well enough served by its own.

24. The opposite of a fief was the freehold, allod or allodium, which roughly corresponds to the present freehold estate.

25. Armed with a court order and with policemen in tow , he is stepping into his former fief regularly .

26. This was the year that his third son, Hirao Yoemon, became Master of Arms for the Owari fief.

27. • Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has Bungled and backtracked even in his fief, the Senate

28. • Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has bungled and Backtracked even in his fief, the Senate

29. 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.

30. This once pleasant city of 5m people is now divided into a patchwork of small fiefs controlled by rival guerrilla groups.

31. It will also surely be harder for the Murdochs, only a minority shareholder in News Corp, to run the company as a family fief.

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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.

35. 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

36. 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.

37. 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

38. 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.

39. 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

40. 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.

41. 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].

42. 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.

43. 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

44. 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.

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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