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Vassals were nobles who served loyalty for the king, in return for being given the use of land.
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Vassals of estate-owners who protected them due to the high tax revenue they provided, Valencian Moriscos were also relatively distinct population.
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.
Menons who belonged to the Kiriyathil were Vassals to the Kings.
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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.
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.
She issued Verses for Holy Seasons ( 1846 ); The Lord of the Forest and His Vassals ( 1847 ; a children's allegory ); and Hymns for Little Children ( 1848 ).
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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.
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.
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.
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They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.
Underneath the royal class were the nobles ( called optimates by the Romans ) and warriors ( called armati by the Romans ).
There were no longer church lands available with which to conciliate the nobles, the burden of taxation was heavy, and Albert's rule became unpopular.
His contemporary biographer Asser wrote that many nobles baulked at the new demands placed upon them even though they were for " the common needs of the kingdom ".
His death was mourned in the country, by the people who loved the king, and by the nobles who were starting to fear his successor.
He resolved to suppress many abuses, but above all things, to check feudalism and limit the power of the nobles, who were rivals for his throne.
While the Habsburgs were driven out, many of their minor nobles were allowed to keep their lands and offices, though over time they lost power to the Bernese government.
There were over 30 different nobles who had the right to hold courts scattered around the surrounding lands.
Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.
By decree of pope Leo X they were created papal nobles, ranking as Comes palatinus (' Count Palatine '), familiars and members of the papal household, so that they might enjoy all the privileges of domestic prelates and of prelates in actual attendance on the Pope, as regards plurality of benefices as well as expectives.
Froissart describes, with less specificity in this passage, some of the nobles that were assembled at, or just prior to the Battle: "... the Englishmen were coasted by certain expert knights of France, who always made report to the king what the Englishmen did.
Roman law also allowed inheritance only through the male line, so when Prasutagus died his attempts to preserve his line were ignored and his kingdom was annexed as if it had been conquered ; lands and property were confiscated and nobles treated like slaves.
In southern China, fierce debates about whether Buddhism should be allowed to exist were held frequently by the royal court and nobles.
The Neustrians had been attacking Austrasia and the nobles were waiting for a strong man to lead them against their invading countrymen.
City dwellers who had fought alongside nobles in battles to defend their cities were no longer content with having a subordinate social status, but demanded a greater role in the form of citizenship.
The rebellious nobles in Germany who were interested in deposing Henry IV never forgave Pope Gregory VII for what they viewed as treachery.
People were split into the Black Yi ( nobles, 5 % of the population ), White Yi ( commoners ), Ajia ( 33 % of the Yi population ) and the Xiaxi ( 10 %).
At the top were the Emperor and Court nobles ( kuge ), together with the Shogun and daimyo.
This system was so fixed, the mores so strong, the affiliation and culture so widely ingrained that while nobles were insisting that certain exclusive privileges be theirs, theirs alone and of their offsprings, shepherds in the countryside were insisting, occasionally with violent demonstrations, that their jobs be strictly hereditary.
They were distinct from both the peasants and the nobles.
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It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.
But there were other homesteaders who passed the Lewis murder off as a personal grudge killing, the work of one of his neighbors.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.
Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.
Capable of enduring friendships, they were also stout controversialists, who could write with a drop of vitriol on their pens.
`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.
Both these youths, who greatly admired Henrietta, were somewhat younger than she, as were also the neighboring Friedenwald boys, who were then studying medicine ; ;
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
It appeals to those who were frustrated in the outcome of the Hungarian situation.
On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.
When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.
Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.
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