* English feudal barony

* Scottish feudal barony

The king granted to this son of his the feudal barony of Bradninch, Devon, which had escheated to the crown from William Capra, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding that barony.

In the kingdom of England, the medieval Latin word baro, baronis was used originally to denote a tenant-in-chief of the early Norman kings who held his lands by the feudal tenure of " barony " ( in Latin per baroniam ), and who was entitled to attend the Great Council which by the 13th century had developed into the Parliament of England.

All who held their feudal barony " in-chief of the king ", that is with the king as his immediate overlord, became alike barones regis (" barons of the king "), bound to perform a stipulated annual military service, and obliged to attend his council.

Writs of summons became the normal method in medieval times, displacing the method of feudal barony, but creation of baronies by letters patent is the sole method adopted in modern times.

Following the Modus Tenendi Parliamenta of 1419, the Tenures Abolition Act 1660, the Feudal Tenure Act ( 1662 ), and the Fines and Recoveries Act of 1834, titles of feudal barony became obsolete and without legal force.

In Scotland, the rank of baron is a rank of the ancient feudal nobility of Scotland and refers to a holder of a feudal barony, formerly a feudal superiority over a proper territorial entity erected into a free barony by a Crown Charter, and is not usually considered a rank of Peerage ; as such it can be transferred by either inheritance or conveyance.

Scottish feudal barons style their surnames similarly to Clan Chiefs, with the name of their barony following their name, as in John Smith of Edinburgh or John Smith, Baron of Edinburgh.

* Irish feudal barony

* Clare, Suffolk, a small town, formerly an important feudal barony after which are named most of the places below

Such tenures, even the highest one of " feudal barony ", never conferred ownership of land but merely ownership of rights over it, that is to say ownership of an estate in land.

Upon the death of his paternal grandmother Alice Deincourt in 1474 he inherited a large estate, including the lands of the baronies of Deincourt, Grey of Rotherfield, and the feudal barony of Bedale.

Alan FitzFlaad ( d. c1114 ), a Breton knight, was granted the feudal barony of Oswestry by King Henry I who, soon after his accession, invited Alan to England with other Breton friends, and gave him forfeited lands in Norfolk and Shropshire, including some which had previously belonged to Ernoulf de Hesdin ( killed at Antioch while on crusade ) and Robert de Belleme.

The large feudal barony of Barnstaple had its caput at Barnstaple Castle.

William re-granted the barony to Juhel de Totnes, formerly feudal baron of Totnes.

To raise money, in 1615 he resigned the feudal barony of Ochiltree and the peerage to his first cousin, Sir James Stuart, the son of James Stewart, Earl of Arran, younger son of the second Lord Ochiltree.

Okehampton was the caput of a large feudal barony which was held at the time of Domesday Book by Baldwin FitzGilbert.

Dudley Castle was the capital of the feudal barony of Dudley.

A further chest tomb exists in the Lady Chapel with effigies of the 9th feudal baron ( 1368 ) and his mother Margaret Mortimer, Baroness Berkeley ( d. 1337 ).

The title Baron Berkeley originated as a feudal title and was subsequently created twice in the Peerage of England by writ.

It was first granted by writ to Thomas II de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley ( 1245 – 1321 ), 6th feudal Baron Berkeley, in 1295, but the title of that creation became extinct at the death of his great-great-grandson, the fifth Baron by writ, when no male heirs to the barony by writ remained, although the feudal barony continued.

* Robert Fitzharding, 1st feudal Baron Berkeley ( d. 1170 / 1 ) Robert the Devout

* Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding, 2nd feudal Baron Berkeley ( c. 1120 – 1190 / 1 ) ( otherwise " Maurice I de Berkeley ") Maurice the Make-Peace

* Robert de Berkeley, 3rd feudal Baron Berkeley ( c. 1165 – 1220 ) Robert the Rebellious

* Thomas I de Berkeley, 4th feudal Baron Berkeley ( c. 1170 – 1243 ) Thomas the Observer or Temporiser

* Maurice II de Berkeley, 5th feudal Baron Berkeley ( 1218 – 1281 ) Maurice the Resolute

* Thomas II de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley ( 1245 – 1321 ), 6th feudal Baron Berkeley Thomas the Wise

* Maurice III de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley ( 1271 – 1326 ), 7th feudal Baron Berkeley, Maurice the Magnaminous

On the surface, the whole question was purely feudal.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The example of the kings was followed by the feudal nobles, sometimes by making a temporary concession permanent, sometimes without any form of commendation whatever.

The lay abbot took his recognized rank in the feudal hierarchy, and was free to dispose of his fief as in the case of any other.

This solution was opposed by the new pope, Eugene IV, who was nominal feudal lord of the King of Naples.

Lavoisier was a powerful figure in the deeply unpopular Ferme Générale, 28 feudal tax collectors who were known to profit immensely by exploiting their position.

Albert became Duke of Prussia after paying feudal homage to the King of Poland, Zygmunt August ( Ducal Prussia was a fief of Poland ), on July 19, 1569 in Lublin.

The Bantu-speaking society was highly a decentralized feudal society organized on a basis of kraals ( an enlarged clan ), headed by a chief, who owed a very hazy allegiance to the nation's head chief.

Bishop Wigers ( 1138 – 60 ) was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian Order, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447 ; in that year a bull of Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation.

This was problematic, as the patroon system of land holding, based on the feudal system and civil law, continued to operate in the colony until it was abolished in the mid-19th century.

As a result, Confucianism was promoted by the emperor and the men its doctrines produced became an effective counter to the remaining feudal aristocrats who threatened the unity of the imperial state.

In a much later period, when Greece was ruled by the Latin Empire, the same strongpoints were used by the new feudal rulers for much the same purposes.

This was most clearly seen in the feudal system, where a lord was expected to enter combat armored and on horseback and bring with him an entourage of peasants on foot.

Calixtus ' reference to the feudal homage due the emperor on appointment is guarded: " shall do unto thee for these what he rightfully should " was the wording of the privilegium granted by Calixtus.

The Declaration was part of a broader diplomatic campaign which sought to assert Scotland's position as an independent kingdom, rather than being a feudal land controlled by England's Norman kings, as well as lift the excommunication of Robert the Bruce.

In the early period of the Crusader era, the Druze feudal power was in the hands of two families, the Tanukhs and the Arslans.

The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.

Medri Bahri was an area distinguished by a very weak feudal structure, with virtually no serfdom and a strong and democratic landowning peasantry unique for the entire region at this time.

That was easy to shoot compared to the Manhattan Island prison sequences which had few lights, mainly torch lights, like feudal England.

Created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the County of Flanders was divided when its western districts fell under French rule in the late 12th century.