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Feudal duties were the set of reciprocal financial, military and legal obligations among the warrior nobility in a feudal system. [1] These duties developed in both Europe and Japan with the decentralisation of empire and due to lack of monetary liquidity, as groups of warriors took over the social, political, judicial, and economic spheres of the territory they controlled. [2]
Feudal titles and status; Lord paramount / Territorial lord: Tenant-in-chief: Mesne lord: Lord of the manor / Overlord / Vogt / Liege lord: Esquire / Gentleman / Landed gentry: Franklin / Yeoman / Retinue: Husbandman: Free tenant: Domestic servant: Vagabond: Serf / Villein / Bordar / Cottar: Slave
This category lists the various types of obligations due under feudalism, such as military service and payment of taxes, and those articles where feudal duties are paramount. Pages in category "Feudal duties"
Under the feudal system in England, a feoffee (/ f ɛ ˈ f iː, f iː ˈ f iː /) is a trustee who holds a fief (or "fee"), that is to say an estate in land, for the use of a beneficial owner. The term is more fully stated as a feoffee to uses of the beneficial owner.
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The legal concept of land tenure in the Middle Ages has become known as the feudal system that has been widely used throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia Minor.The lords who received land directly from the Crown, or another landowner, in exchange for certain rights and obligations were called tenants-in-chief.
Barons could hold other executive offices apart from the duties they owed the king, such as an earldom, though immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066, very few barons did. An Earl, at the time, was the highest executive office concerned with shire administration, holding higher responsibilities than the sheriff , whose title would later ...
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