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

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 held inherited lands and provided military service and homage to their lords.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Alexander II of Imereti ( 1478, 1483 – 1510 ), King of Georgia and of Imereti

* Alexander of Imereti ( 1609 – 1660 ), Imeretian Prince and future King of Imereti

* date unknown – Bagrat I of Imereti, King of Georgia

Totleben helped King Solomon I of Imereti recover his capital Kutaisi on August 6, 1770.

Queen Rusudan, Prince Bagrat, King George II, Queen Helen, King Bagrat III of Imereti, Catholicos Yevclemon Chetidze, David the Builder. jpg | Gelati monastery, Church of Virgin the Blessed.

From left to right: Queen Rusudan, Prince Bagrat, King George II, Queen Helen, King Bagrat III of Imereti, Catholicos Yevdemon Chetidze, David the Builder

In 1259, the Georgian King David Narin revolted, unsuccessfully, against the Mongols and, then, fled to Kutaisi, from whence he reigned over western Georgia ( Imereti ) as a de facto separate ruler.

Constantine II, King of Imereti ( west Georgia ) from 1392 to 1401, enfeoffed them of Sachkhere and conferred the dignity of prince ( tavadi ) upon them.

Russia did nothing to help the Georgians during the disastrous Battle of Krtsanisi in 1795, which left Tbilisi sacked and Georgia ravaged ( including the west Georgian kingdom of Imereti, ruled by Erekle II ’ s grandson, King Solomon II ).

Abandoned by several of his nobles, Heraclius II managed to mobilize around 5, 000 troops, including some 2, 000 auxiliaries from neighbouring Imereti under its King Solomon II, a member of the Georgian Bagrationi Dynasty and thus distantly related to Heraclius II.

However, towards the end of 1769, King Solomon I of Imereti managed to arrest Rostom and to abolish the duchy.

In 1784, King David of Imereti revived the duchy and gave it to his nephew Anton.

Solomon I, King of Imereti

Solomon I () ( 1735 – April 23, 1784 ), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was King of Imereti ( western Georgia ) from 1752 to 1766 and again from 1768 until his death in 1784.

King Solomon II of Imereti.

Solomon II () ( 1772 – February 7, 1815 ), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was the last King of Imereti ( western Georgia ) from 1789 to 1790 and from 1792 until his deposition by the Imperial Russian government in 1810.

He was born as David to Prince Archil, brother of King Solomon I of Imereti, by his wife Helene, daughter of King Heraclius II of Georgia.

David, son of Archil, was crowned as King of Imereti under the name of Solomon II, but David II continued his efforts to resume the throne until his final defeat in 1792.

Grave stone of King Solomon II of Imereti.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

In the beginning of 1222, the discontent serviens ( nobles ) came to Andrew's court in large numbers, and they persuaded the king to issue the Golden Bull which confirmed their privileges, including the right to disobey the King if he acted not in line with the provisions of the Golden Bull ( ius resistendi ).

His second wife was Alcia and they had a daughter called Lanassa, who married as the second wife of King Pyrrhus of Epirus.

The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony did not pay any attention to it, and he said to them, " The books of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, commands us every day, but we do not heed what they tell us, and we turn our backs on them.

Certain persons in England during the reign of King Henry I of England were called Acephali because they had no lands by virtue of which they could acknowledge a superior lord.

This idea was extended and refined by the English barony when they forced King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215.

Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.

Surprisingly, considering the later French distaste for castrati they certainly existed in France at this time also, being known of in Paris, Orléans, Picardy and Normandy, though they were not abundant: the King of France himself had difficulty in obtaining them.

Internally, the Taiping Rebellion ( 1851 – 1864 ), a quasi-Christian religious movement led by the " Heavenly King " Hong Xiuquan, would raid roughly a third of Chinese territory for over a decade until they were finally crushed in the Third Battle of Nanking in 1864.

King Ashoka also extended the period before execution of those condemned to death so they could make a final appeal for their lives.

The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

The King was recognized as having the right to invest bishops with secular authority (" by the lance ") in the territories they governed, but not with sacred authority (" by ring and staff "); the result was that bishops owed allegiance in worldly matters both to the pope and to the king, for they were obligated to affirm the right of the sovereign to call upon them for military support, under his oath of fealty.

In part because of the constant presence of the King, other rulers demanded that they have a say in who would be pope.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

The people were mentioned as Helsinger ( which may mean " the people of the strait ") for the first time in King Valdemar the Victorious's Liber Census Daniæ from 1231, but they should not be confused with the Helsings of Hälsingland in Sweden.

As they ascended the mountains, however, the army and the King and Queen were left horrified by the unburied corpses of the previously slaughtered German army.

Later, at King Roger's court in Potenza, she learnt of the death of her uncle Raymond ; this appears to have forced a change of plans, for instead of returning to France from Marseilles, they instead sought the Pope in Tusculum, where he had been driven five months before by a Roman revolt.

King Philip II of France claimed that certain properties in Normandy belonged to his half-sister, Margaret of France, widow of the young Henry, but Henry insisted that they had once belonged to Eleanor and would revert to her upon her son's death.