Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.

The areas in Deheubarth held by various Norman lords are shown in grey.

Over the centuries, the family acquired huge landed estates, mostly in Moravia, Lower Austria and Styria, but all of these rich territories were held in fief under other more senior feudal lords, particularly under various lines of the Habsburg family, to which many Liechtensteins were close advisors.

During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Anjou, the Crown of Aragon, the Crown of Castile, and Spain.

After military experience fighting various lords who rebelled against his father, Henry IV, Henry came into political conflict with the increasingly ill king.

The old town in the hilly inland was probably founded in the 10th century AD by some people from Locri, who had fled to the area to defend themselves from Saracen incursions ; in the following century it became a hamlet of the county of Grotteria and was home to various feudal lords.

The Wars of the Roses were a series of conflicts between various English lords and nobles in support of two different royal families.

During this time, various feudal lords, among them archbishops who held fiefs from the Holy Roman Emperor, collected tolls from passing cargo ships to bolster their finances.

They were joined after the War of Wrath by those of the Edain who did not wish to travel to Númenor ( similar to how, at the end of the First Age, various Eldar remained and went east, becoming lords of the Silvan Elves ).

He is also identified with various mythical progenitors, especially ( Manusmṛti 1. 34 ) the ten lords of created beings first created by Brahmā, which are the Prajapatis:

Due to its strategic location on the border between the County of Holland and the Bishopric of Utrecht, various wars have been fought in and around Woerden by the various lords and ladies of these realms.

Some scholars argue however that anterior to the encroachment of the manorial system the ċeorles owed various services and rents to local lords and powers.

The change in status following the enclosure movements beginning in the later 18th century, in which various lords abandoned the open field farming of previous centuries and, essentially, took all the best land for themselves in exchange for " freeing " their serfs, may well have made serfdom seem more desirable to many peasant families.

True to the name, Usagi often takes work as a bodyguard, and works for various lords, most notably Lord Noriyuki, and teams with other Samurai, bounty hunters, and the like.

After a short civil war the lords of various powerful cities and families met to restore a central government to Yucatán.

Feudal family are installed throughout the architecture of the building, signifying the various lords that inhabited the castle throughout its history.

His run started with " Dangerous Habits " ( 41-46 ), which was the basis for the 2005 film Constantine, and dealt with John Constantine contracting lung cancer, and the desperate deal he makes with the First of the Fallen, and various other lords of Hell, to save himself.

Through the centuries, the dynasty acquired vast swathes of land, predominantly in Moravia, Lower Austria, Silesia, and Styria, though in all cases, these territories were held in fief under other more senior feudal lords, particularly under various lines of the Habsburg family, to whom several Liechtenstein princes served as close advisors.

The schedule in part 3 lays down 9 pro-formas ( A-I ) for creating various ranks of the peerage, lords of appeal and baronets.

As a result, at the end of the 15th century, the beginning of the Sengoku period, the power in the country was divided amongst lords of various kinds ( shugo, shugodai, and others ), who came to be called daimyō.

In 900, Louis, as the grandson and heir of the Emperor Louis II, was invited into Italy by various lords, including Adalbert II of Tuscany, who were suffering under the ravages of the Magyars and the incompetent rule of Berengar I. Louis thus marched his army across the Alps and defeated Berengar, chasing him from Pavia, the old Lombard capital, where, in the church of San Michele, he was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy on 12 October, 900.

This castle was the stronghold from which various historical lords such as Lord Hosokawa and Lord Miyoshi ruled over the Awa Province, now known as modern day Tokushima Prefecture, during the Muromachi era ( 1336 to 1573 ).

Gradually the form turned from humorous narrative into monologue, probably upon the request of the daimyō, feudal lords, seeking people skilled enough to entertain them with various kinds of storytelling.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

In each of these, there were in the early Middle Ages a number of feudal lords who often were just as powerful, and sometimes more so than the rulers themselves.

The Anglo-Saxon system of maintaining public order since the Norman conquest was a private system of tithings, led by a constable, which was based on a social obligation for the good conduct of the others ; more common was that local lords and nobles were responsible to maintain order in their lands, and often appointed a constable, sometimes unpaid, to enforce the law.

Simple natural or religious symbols such as ' The Sun ', ' The Star ' and ' The Cross ' were also incorporated into pub signs, sometimes being adapted to incorporate elements of the heraldry ( e. g. the coat of arms ) of the local lords who owned the lands upon which the pub stood.

During the next fifteen years, Llywelyn was frequently involved in fights with Marcher lords and sometimes with the king, but also made alliances with several major powers in the Marches.

From then until his death Llywelyn was the dominant force in Wales, though there were further outbreaks of hostilities with marcher lords, particularly the Marshall family and Hubert de Burgh, and sometimes with the king.

Members of the nobility utilized their economic power and sometimes also other powers to have small-farm owners sell their lands to manor lords, so landowning centralized gradually more in the hands of the noble class.

The Lords of Matsumae, as they are sometimes called, were exempt from owing rice to the shogun in tribute, and from the sankin kotai system established by Tokugawa Ieyasu, under which most lords ( daimyo ) had to spend half the year at court ( in the capital of Edo ).

The nearby stately home of Boughton House, sometimes described as the ' English Versailles ' has for centuries been the seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch, major landowners in Kettering and most of the surrounding villages ; along with the Watsons of Rockingham Castle, the two families were joint lords of the manor of Kettering.

In medieval Scandinavia, housecarls (, singular húskarl ; also anglicised as huscarl ( Old English form ) and sometimes spelled huscarle or houscarl ) were either non-servile manservants, or household troops in personal service of someone, equivalent to a bodyguard to Scandinavian lords and kings.

During the next fifteen years Llywelyn was frequently involved in fighting with Marcher lords and sometimes with the king, but also made alliances with several of the major powers in the Marches.

Another term for the Edo-era hatamoto was, sometimes rendered as " direct Shogunal hatamoto ", which serves to illustrate the difference between them and the preceding generation of hatamoto who served various lords.

In its early medieval period during the Lordship of Ireland it consisted of either two or three chambers: the House of Commons, elected by a very restricted suffrage, the House of Lords in which the lords temporal of the peerage of Ireland and lords spiritual ( higher clergy ) were represented ( subject to periodic exclusion of Catholic peers ) by a third body, a House of Proctors, which consisted of representatives of the lower clergy, which sometimes seems to have sat as a separate house, on other times as part of the House of Commons.

Royal castles were used to control key towns and forests, whilst baronial castles were used by the Norman lords to control their widespread estates ; a feudal system called the castle-guard was sometimes used to provide garrisons.

From the outset, the central Court and local lords both enjoyed hawking, with the former trying to monopolize falconry, sometimes with banning orders.

O ' Donnell ( Irish: Ó Dónaill or Ó Domhnaill ), which is derived from the forename Domhnall ( meaning " world ruler ", Rex Mundi in Latin, Modern Irish spelling, Dónall ) were an ancient and powerful Irish family, kings, princes, and lords of Tír Chonaill ( rendered in English as Tyrconnell or Tyrconnel, known today as County Donegal ) in early times, and the chief allies and sometimes rivals of the O ' Neills in Ulster.

He established the Chinzei at Dazaifu, where he received all the Shogun's orders for Kyūshū ; local lords could not be trusted to obey local constables, and so the Kyūshū Tandai ( as the Chinzei Bugyō was sometimes known ) had to act as intermediary between Kyūshū and the capital at Kamakura.

Many of the formerly mentioned demon lords themselves have god-like traits ; they sway the worship of entire races, have cult-followings, and sometimes even have portfolios attributed to them.

In the Early Middle Ages, there were, in each province, a number of feudal lords who often were just as powerful, and sometimes more so, than the rulers themselves.

In a case involving drug lords, revenge and cold blooded murder, police uncover a tangled web of lies which finds Kevin Paul Naismith born 15 August 1969 guilty of the two murders which took place at his home and burial of the two bodies in sand dunes at Stockton Bight sometimes known as Stockton Beach.