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A fief (/ f iː f /; Latin: feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form of feudal allegiance, services or payments.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language.. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.
Henry Pacheco, 44, was charged with murder, arson and petit larceny in connection to the May 12, 2012 death of Lorena Escalera, 25, who went by the stage name Lorena Xtravaganza, cops said.
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]
The SAS patrol commander wrote a series of newspaper articles about the tragedy, but was successfully taken to court by the MoD in 2002 to stop the publication. [ 117 ] In the aftermath of the Dayton Agreement in December 1995, the SAS remained active in the region, alongside JSOC units in the hunt for war criminals on behalf of the ...