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Later, the term feudum, or feodum, began to replace beneficium in the documents. [23] The first attested instance of this is from 984, although more primitive forms were seen up to one-hundred years earlier. [23] The origin of the feudum and why it replaced beneficium has not been well established, but there are multiple theories, described ...
Later, the term feudum, or feodum, began to replace beneficium in the documents. [4] The first attested instance of this is from 984, although more primitive forms were seen up to one hundred years earlier. [4] The origin of the feudum and why it replaced beneficium has not been well established, but there are multiple theories, described below ...
Götz von Berlichingen was enfeoffed with Hornberg Castle in this deed. A fief (also fee, feu, feud, tenure or fiefdom, German: Lehen, Latin: feudum, feodum or beneficium) was understood to be a thing (land, property), which its owner, the liege lord (Lehnsherr), had transferred to the hereditary ownership of the beneficiary on the basis of mutual loyalty, with the proviso that it would return ...
Fiefs bestowed by the Church on vassals were called active fiefs; when churchmen themselves undertook obligations to a suzerain, the fiefs were called passive.In the latter case, temporal princes gave certain lands to the Church by enfeoffing a bishop or abbot, and the latter had then to do homage as pro-vassal and undertake all the implied obligations.
Homage (/ˈhɒmɪdʒ/ or / oʊ ˈ m ɑː ʒ / [1]) (from Medieval Latin hominaticum, lit. "pertaining to a man") in the Middle Ages was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position (investiture).
The Feudum Acinganorum was a fiefdom established around 1360 in Corfu, which mainly used Romani serfs and to which the Romanies on the island were subservient. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] References
It seems likelier, though, that the name comes from the Latin word feudum, which means “fief” (and which also yields the English word “feudal”). Another scholarly opinion, however, holds that the name is indeed of Latin origin, but that it rather comes from fagus, the word for “beech”.
In 1207 though, doge Pietro Ziani ceded the island as a feudum to ten Venetian nobles, provided that they demonstrate loyalty and devotion and that they pay taxes. [27] Corfu passed in the hands of the Despotate of Epirus around 1214, and was captured in 1257 by Manfred of Sicily , who put his admiral Philippe Chinard there in charge of his ...