Vassals of estate-owners who protected them due to the high tax revenue they provided, Valencian Moriscos were also relatively distinct population.

Vassals paid taxes to the sultan and often contributed with troops in various Ottoman military campaigns.

Recherla Dodda Naidu and Recherla Brahma Naidu were vassals of the Velanti Chodas ( Vassals of the Chola-Chalukyas and responsible for the administration of their Andhra territories ) and tried to usher in a new era in which caste distinctions would be abolished.

Since 1974 with the publication of Elizabeth A. R. Brown's The Tyranny of a Construct, and Susan Reynolds ' Fiefs and Vassals ( 1994 ), there has been ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding medieval society.

In Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted ( 1994 ), Susan Reynolds expanded upon Brown's original thesis.

* Reynolds, Susan, Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted.

Vassals of Waalo, like Beetyo ( Bethio ) split off.

In the words of one reviewer: " At worst, the allegiance system is a multilevel marketing scheme, whereby greedy, uncaring Patrons enlist as many Vassals as possible in order to gain large amounts of bonus experience.

" Provincial Vassals of the Muromachi Shoguns ", in The Bakufu in Japanese History.

Vassals were nobles who served loyalty for the king, in return for being given the use of land.

According to John of Ibelin, it was one of the four major Vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Vassals of the King of Imereti, they revolted several times against the royal power.

The surname was ascribed to the Register of the Vassals and recognized of ancient nobility in 1843 for the admission in the " Company of the Regal Watches " in person of Giovanni Camillo.

Vassals were installed in Tunis and territory as far as Kairouan came under control.

On succession due to Prince Kunhi Homos death, Prince Cunhi Raman tried to ambition to reaffirm his authority upon his Vassals to the East India Company concern.

Menons who belonged to the Kiriyathil were Vassals to the Kings.

Moreover, Carnegie urged other wealthy people to contributed to society in the form of parks, works of art, libraries and other endeavors that improved the community, and contributed to the “ lasting good ” Carnegie also held a strong opinion against inherited wealth.

He appears to have held Lamarckian concepts of evolution, such that cultural deterioration could be inherited.

Meanwhile, the prince Gisulf I of Salerno began using the title Langobardorum gentis princeps around mid-century, but the ideal of a united Lombard principality was realised only in December 977, when Gisulf died and his domains were inherited by Pandulf Ironhead, who temporarily held almost all Italy south of Rome and brought the Lombards into alliance with the Holy Roman Empire.

Television rights to Paramount's library, included properties owned outright, and those only for certain media, are currently held on Paramount's behalf by Trifecta Entertainment & Media ( Trifecta had inherited this library from CBS Television Distribution in 2009 ).

Roger was a Norman, son of William fitzOsbern, but had inherited less authority than his father held.

The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held it throughout its existence.

Therefore, there were two kinds of boyars: those whose ancestors, as chiefs of the ancient rural communities, had held land before the formation of the feudal states, such that the prince merely confirmed their preexisting status as landowners ; and those who acquired their domain from a princely donation or who had inherited it from an ancestor who acquired it through such a donation ( cf.

William Henry Harrison inherited the plantation, then named Walnut Grove, in 1790 and held it for three years.

This was contrary to the prevailing naturalist belief of the time, which held that socio-cultural and behavioral differences between peoples stemmed from inherited traits and tendencies derived from common descent, then called " race ".

Golding and Ann Constable, while approving the match, held out no prospect of supporting the marriage until Constable was financially secure ; but they died in quick succession, and Constable inherited a fifth share in the family business.

In modern times, Hakubun Shimomura argued that the Chrysanthemum Throne should be inherited only by those whose paternal ancestors had held it, to preserve a genetic bloodline.

) This applies both in all-female lines, such as the Rain Queen in Africa, and when a throne is held by males, but inherited by the son of the sister of a prior King ( so that the maternal grandmother of the King in one generation is the mother of the King in the previous generation ), not by the sons of Kings ( except in cases of incest ).

His wealthy parents held left-wing views, which he inherited.

Robert Stewart inherited the title of High Steward of Scotland on his father's death on 9 April 1326, and a Parliament held in July 1326 confirmed the young Steward as heir should Prince David die without a successor.

Walter's father and paternal grandfather held lands in Suffolk and Norfolk, which were inherited by Theobald.

No clear date or monument can confirm the link between the two, but these Egyptologists presumed this by Ay's origins, also from Akhmin, and because he inherited most of the titles that Tiye's father, Yuya, held during his lifetime, at the court of Amenhotep III.

" Bailey and his followers held a quasi – religious faith in education by enlightened experts, which meant suppression of inherited ways and substitution by progressive ways.

The Barony of Ravensdale was inherited by his eldest daughter Mary and is today held by Cynthia's son Nicholas Mosley.

Pelham's personal papers were inherited by his son-in-law and now form part of the Newcastle ( Clumber ) Collection held at the department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham.

The reader is treated to an early exposition of her violent temper ( inherited from her father ) when she rescues Mary-Lou, a smaller, weaker girl in her form, who is being held under water by the malicious Gwendoline Mary Lacey, and delivers a stinging rebuke to Gwendoline with the flat of her hand.

Members of the Commons were all elected, while members of the upper house were summoned to parliament by the monarch, usually on the basis of a title which would be inherited after the holder's death, or because they held a position in the realm that warranted special recognition, such as the bishops of the English and Welsh dioceses.

The Marquesses also held the title of Duke of Queensberry from 1684 to 1810, when it was inherited by the Duke of Buccleuch.

A party referendum was held on the future of the party, where the right wing gained a substantial plurality of 47 % and inherited the party infrastructure.

Molde inherited the ancient role formerly held by Veøy as the principal market town for the region.

Some privately held inholdings are a source of direct damage to these Federal lands.

Faced with the possibility of annihilation, Alboin made an alliance in 566 with the Avars under Bayan I, at the expense of some tough conditions ; the Avars demanded a tenth of the Lombards ' cattle, half of the war booty, and on the war's conclusion all of the lands held by the Gepids.

He held lands in Scotland north of the Forth and in Lothian.

The monastery was deprived of some of its lands at the Norman Conquest but at the time of Domesday still held 18 manors, including Bodmin, Padstow and Rialton.

Simon de Montfort was granted the Trencavel lands by the Pope and did homage for them to the King of France, thus incurring the enmity of Peter of Aragon who had held aloof from the conflict, even acting as a mediator at the time of the siege of Carcassonne.

The Lusitanii, a pre-Celtic people dominating the lands northwest of Iberia, successfully held off the Roman Empire for many years with a variety of innovative tactics and light weapons, including iron-bladed short spears and daggers modeled after Iberian patterns.

The Franconian lands include the present-day South Thuringian districts Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Hildburghausen and Sonneberg, the historic Gau of Grabfeld held by the House of Henneberg from the 11th century and later part of the Wettin duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.

Cleveland angered railroad investors by ordering an investigation of western lands they held by government grant.

Small banana producing cooperatives lined up in the 1990s to sell their land to the commercial giants, and the last banana-producing lands held by the government were privatized.

The fact that the Capetians both held lands as Prince as well as in the title of King gave them a complicated status.

After or just before the dissolution, the Electors of Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, and Hanover each took the title of king of his former electorate ( in the case of Hanover after regaining his lands following Napoleon's defeat in 1814 ) while the King of Prussia extended his royal title to cover his erstwhile Electorate of Brandenburg as well as the lands he held as king outside the imperial border.

Knowledge of lands as distant as China were held by the Romans.

In 1490 John was able to purchase the former Lusatian territory around Zossen, acknowledged by the Bohemian king Vladislaus II, and maintained the succession claims of the Hohenzollern dynasty to the Pomeranian lands held by the House of Griffins.

John hoped to acquire Normandy, Anjou and the other lands in France held by Richard in exchange for allying himself with Philip.

Latvia, in whole or in parts, remained under foreign rule for the next eight centuries, finding itself at the cross-roads of all the regional superpowers of their day, including Denmark ( the Danes held on lands around the Gulf of Riga ), Sweden, and Russia, with southern ( Courland ) Latvia being at one time a vassal to Poland-Lithuania as well as Latgale falling directly under Poland-Lithuania rule.

With the Christian re-conquest of the Peninsula underway, inroads into Islamic territories were successfully incorporating lands previously held by the taifa kingdoms.

After this Johan III held off on his pursuit for more land due to Muscovy obtaining lands that Sweden controlled.

Not all territorial seigneurs were secular ; bishops and abbots also held lands that entailed similar obligations.

The site was given by the Prince of Wales, who held the lands of the Duchy of Cornwall to which all the Moor belonged.

What could have been a tense affair, since Rhys had seized lands in Ceredigion previously held by the Clare family, passed off with an exchange of courteous compliments, followed by some good-natured banter between Rhys and Gerald about their family connections.

In elections held in June 1992, Václav Klaus's Civic Democratic Party won in the Czech lands on a platform of economic reform, and Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) emerged as the leading party in Slovakia, basing its appeal on the fairness of Slovak demands for autonomy.

Carantania-Carinthia was established again as an autonomous administrative unit in 976, when Emperor Otto I, " the Great ", after deposing the Duke of Bavaria, Henry II, " the Quarreller ", split the lands held by him and made Carinthia the sixth duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, but old Carantania never developed into a unified realm.

In 1113, Stephen was granted both the title and the honour, although without the lands previously held by William in England.

Stephen announced the Treaty of Winchester in Winchester Cathedral: he recognised Henry FitzEmpress as his adopted son and successor, in return for Henry doing homage to him ; Stephen promised to listen to Henry's advice, but retained all his royal powers ; Stephen's remaining son, William, would do homage to Henry and renounce his claim to the throne, in exchange for promises of the security of his lands ; key royal castles would be held on Henry's behalf by guarantors whilst Stephen would have access to Henry's castles ; and the numerous foreign mercenaries would be demobilised and sent home.