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A knight's fee could be created by the king himself or by one of his tenants-in-chief by separating off an area of land from his own demesne (land held in-hand), which process when performed by the latter was known as subinfeudation, and establishing therein a new manor for the use of a knight who would by the process of enfeoffment become his tenant by paying homage and fealty to his new ...
a Knight's fee: is the amount of land for which the services of a knight (for 40 days) were due to the Crown. It was determined by land value, and the number of hides in a Knight's Fee varied. a hundred: a division of an English shire consisting of 100 hides.
Knights fee may refer to: Knight's fee , a unit measure of land deemed sufficient to support a knight in feudal England Knight's Fee (novel) , a 1960 children's historical novel by Rosemary Sutcliff
Knight's Fee is a children's historical novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff, first published in 1960.It is set in and around the South Downs in England, near the towns of Steyning and Arundel in West Sussex and covers the period 1094–1106, some 30–40 years after the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
Odo de Cranesbi holds 1 knight's fee. Thomas, son of William, holds 1 knight's fee. Roger de Millers holds 2 knight's fees. And from my demesne I provide the balance of the service I owe you, to wit, that of 5 knights. And from that demesne I have given Robert de Portemort 3 ⁄ 4 of 1 knight's fee. Therefore I pray you that you will send me ...
During the course of the late medieval period, knight-service came to be replaced by the tenure of scutage, under which tenants paid tax assessed according to their knight's fee, instead of providing knights. Before the mid-13th century the fiefdoms had not been heritable owing to the uncertainty of whether the heir of the tenant would be ...
After Laval died c. 1129, [11] the honour of Pontefract's sixty knight's fees were divided into three equal portions. [12] William Maltravers paid £1,000 for the reversion of Laval's estate for the term of 15 years, as well as £100 to marry Laval's widow and take possession of her marriage portion and dower. [13]
In feudal Anglo-Norman England and Ireland, a knight's fee was a unit measure of land deemed sufficient to support a knight, and it is known that, "John de Gateford, in the 6th year of Edward III (1333), held the fourth part of a knight’s fee in Gateford." Thomas de Gayteford held the manor of Gayteford, in the 40th year of the same reign (1367).