* Gokenin, vassals of the shogunate in Japan

Gokenin Zankurō is a samurai but, due to his low rank and income, he has to work extra jobs that higher-ranking samurai were unaccustomed to doing.

He played the lead character, Matsudaira Kurō, in the television jidaigeki Gokenin Zankurō, which ran for several seasons.

In Kyōto, Minamoto no Michichika took power as steward, and in Kamakura, in 1199, upon the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo, Hōjō Tokimasa began to rule as Gokenin.

* Hōkōshū ( 奉公衆 )-During the Muromachi period, the Gokenin part of the Shogun's personal army.

During the Kamakura period Mōri was one of prominent Gokenin family due to the fame of their ancestor Hiromoto.

In his generation, Mōri became the daimyo from a local Gokenin.

Knights bachelor were either poor vassals who could not afford to take the field under their own banner, or knights too young to support the responsibility and dignity of knights banneret.

Prominent opponents of the Crusaders were Raymond-Roger de Trencavel, viscount of Carcassonne, and his feudal overlord Peter II, the king of Aragon, who held fiefdoms and had a number of vassals in the region.

Although the Normans were now both vassals of the French kings and their equals as kings of England, their zone of political activity remained centered in France.

The first three of these rose to become rulers of principalities were vassals of the Byzantine Empire, maintaining a partial local autonomy from the Byzantine Empire.

The Hebrides were now part of the Kingdom of the Isles, whose rulers were themselves vassals of the Kings of Norway.

Internationally, the Lusignans were useful as vassals of Baldwin and Sibylla's cousin Henry II of England.

As in Europe the nobles had their own vassals and were themselves vassals to the king.

Around 230 AD, the Kushans were defeated by the Sassanid Empire and replaced by Sassanid vassals known as the Indo-Sassanids.

The Mongolic-speaking Xianbei originally formed a part of the Donghu confederation, but existed even before that time, as evidenced by a mention in the Guoyu (" 晉語八 " section ) which states that during the reign of King Cheng of Zhou ( reigned 1042-1021 BC ) the Xianbei came to participate at a meeting of Zhou subject-lords at Qiyang ( 岐阳 ) ( now Qishan County ) but were only allowed to perform the fire ceremony under the supervision of Chu ( 楚 ), since they were not vassals by covenant ( 诸侯 ).

Other accounts claim he actually served on the Tokugawa side, but such a claim is unproven, although Musashi had a close relationship with some Tokugawa vassals through his duel with Sasaki Kojirō, and in the succeeding years, he did not drop out of sight as might be expected if he were being persecuted for being on the losing side.

While Hamilcar was able to obtain the resources for his aim, the Numidians in the Atlas Mountains were not conquered, like Hanno suggested, but became vassals of Carthage.

The Angevin Kings of England, as Dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, were his most powerful and dangerous vassals.

Taharqa fled back to Nubia, and native Egyptian princes were installrd by the Assyrians as vassals of Esarhaddon.

Rather than strengthen his position, the military expeditions left his clan's coffers and fighting strength depleted, his vassals at odds over responsibility for the failure, and the clans that were loyal to the Toyotomi name weakened.

The death of Nobunaga meant that some provinces, ruled by Nobunaga's vassals, were ripe for conquest.

They were vassals of James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland as their lands fell within his territory.

Unlike today's farmers, vassals under feudalism were bound to cultivating their lord's land.

Sweyn and Harold called up their own vassals, but neither side wanted a fight, and Godwin and Sweyn appear to have each given a son as hostage, who were sent to Normandy.

The former Lombard dukes and nobles were replaced by other German vassals, prince-bishops or marquises.

The dukes of Gottorf were vassals of the Danish kings and ruled over much of present day Schleswig-Holstein.

In 824, the 3rd Battle of Roncesvaux took place, where counts Aeblus and Aznar, Frankish vassals from the Duchy of Vasconia sent by the new King of Aquitaine Pepin, were captured by the joint forces of Iñigo Arista and the Banu Qasi.

Driven by public opinion, but against his own wishes, the King had the banners removed but to Alexandra's dismay he had down not only " those vile Prussian banners " but also those of her Hessian relations who were, in her opinion, " simply soldiers or vassals under that brutal German Emperor's orders ".

The Hijaz was long ruled by Muhammad's descendants, the sharifs, either as independent rulers or as vassals to larger empires.

Fudai daimyo were hereditary vassals of Ieyasu, as well as of his descendants.

He gave the port of Jubail to a Genoese admiral, Guglielmo Embriaco, whose descendants remained vassals of the Count until the late 13th century.

His descendants, great vassals of the ( Seiwa Genji ) Shiba clan, shugo ( governors ) of Echizen, Owari and other provinces, followed the latter to Owari Province and received Inuyama Castle in 1435.

In the following centuries, Silesia was divided into as many as 17 separate duchies among their descendants and successors, who from the early 14th century onwards gradually became vassals of the Imperial Kingdom of Bohemia.

Harald's descendants, and other claimants to the throne, had to contend with strong regional leaders such as the Jarls of Lade in the north and the rulers of Vingulmark in the east, while the kings of Denmark claimed regions in the south and were eager to acquire Norwegian vassals to increase their influence.

Their apparent descendants, the House of Godred Crovan, ruled as Kings of Mann and the Isles from the 11th well into the 13th century, although they were vassals of the Kings of Norway for most of this time.

Over the next twenty years it was constructed in a late Romanesque style, funded mainly by Fitzalan, his descendants and their vassals, especially the Lestrange family.

Returning to his home province of Kozuke, Nitta rallied the aid of other descendants & vassals including his brother Nitta Yoshisuke of the Minamoto clan, and began to march towards Kamakura through Musashi.

Succession disputes erupted ; there were a number of direct descendants of Masamune, and many kinsmen and hereditary vassals of the Date who resided nearby held estates of at least 10, 000 koku, and thus had some influence.

Nabopolassar's position, and the fate of Assyria was sealed when he entered into an alliance with another of Assyria's former vassals, the Medes, the now dominant people of what was to become Persia.

To his concerns regarding his new heir, Louis, who had been destined for the monastic life of a younger son ( the former heir, Philip, having died from a riding accident ), was added joy over the death of one of his most powerful vassals – and the availability of the best duchy in France.

In around 627 BC after the death of its last great king Ashurbanipal, the Neo-Assyrian empire began to unravel due to a series of bitter civil wars, and Assyria was attacked by its former vassals, the Babylonians and Medes.

They are organized by the Egyptian Fatimid dynasty to punish their former Zirid vassals.

The fort eventually fell and the Southern Court Emperor, Go-Daigo, and his loyal vassals were captured and kept at the old palace of former Emperor Kazanin.

Several other former Majapahit vassals and colonies began to released themself from Majapahit domination and suzerainty.

Ninety-seven han formed the third group, the tozama ( outside vassals ), former opponents or new allies.

The elite of the empire were the Frankish and Venetian lords, headed by the emperor, the barons and the lower-ranking vassals and liege lords, including many former Byzantine aristocrats.

The Mannaeans, former vassals of the Assyrians, were no longer restricted to the area around Lake Urmia, but had spread into Zamua, where they interrupted the horse trade between Parsuash and Assyria and refused to pay further tribute.

After the breakup of the Ilkhanate, their former vassals in the area, the Artukids waged war against the Ayyubids of Hisn Kayfa in 1334, but were decisively defeated, with the Ayyubids gaining their possessions on the left bank of the Tigris River.

Known as the " rabble of devilkin ", these exiles number roughly 50 former consorts, dukes, vassals, and other unique devils who lost favor with their masters.

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and his allies, many of them vassals and former supporters of his paternal cousin Duke Henry III the Lion, had defeated the latter.

She had some support from her maternal relations, the Courtenay family ( the former dynasty of the County of Edessa ) and their allies and vassals, while her rivals were led by Raymond of Tripoli, who had a claim to the throne in his own right, the Ibelin family and the dowager queen in Nablus on behalf of Isabella.

In the late 15th century, Prome and its Shan states successfully broke away, and in the early 16th century, Ava itself came under attacks from its former vassals.

Some of these former vassals went on to form empires of their own.

In 1657, Transylvania, the Eastern part of the former Hungarian Kingdom that after 1526 gained semi-independence while paying tribute to the Ottoman Empire, felt strong enough to attack the Tatars ( then the Empire's vassals ) to the East, and later the Ottoman Empire itself, that came to the Tatars ' defence.

After trying to persuade Oda vassals in the vicinity to recognize him as the new master of former Oda territories, Akechi entered Azuchi Castle and began sending messages to the imperial court to boost his position and force the court to recognize him as well.

The Flemish comital House of Dampierre had been French vassals, who held territory around the affluent cities of Bruges and Ghent, but also adjacent lands in former Lower Lorraine east of the Scheldt river (" Imperial Flanders ") including the exclave of Mechelen, which were a fief of the Holy Roman Empire, and furthermore the neighbouring French County of Artois.

He had previously sent his son Charles to raise his former vassals, who now held of the king ; but very few answered the summons of the fiery cross, and all his son could do was to garrison the castle of Carnasory.

He and his son Adalbert remained Italian kings as Otto's vassals, though they had to cede the territory of the former March of Friuli to him, which the German king enfeoffed to his younger brother Duke Henry I of Bavaria as the Imperial March of Verona.

He had a very critical attitude towards the great functionaries of Satsuma and Chōshū, who although vassals of the former shogunate, were now swaggering around in their new roles as leaders of the Meiji government.