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  2. Ecclesiastical fief - Wikipedia

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    The suzerain, e.g. bishop, abbot, or other possessor, granted an estate in perpetuity to a person, who thereby became his vassal. As such, the grantee at his enfeoffment did homage to his overlord, took an oath of fealty, and made offering of the prescribed money or other object, by reason of which he held his fief. These requirements had to be ...

  3. Suzerainty - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Where the subordinate party is called a vassal, vassal state, or tributary state, the dominant party is called a suzerain. The rights and obligations of a vassal are called vassalage, and the rights and obligations of a suzerain are called suzerainty .

  4. Vassal - Wikipedia

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    The rights and obligations of a vassal are called vassalage, while the rights and obligations of a suzerain are called suzerainty. The obligations of a vassal often included military support by knights in exchange for certain privileges, usually including land held as a tenant or fief . [ 3 ]

  5. Harrowing of Hell - Wikipedia

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    Matthew 12:40: "For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth." Matthew 27:50–54: "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to ...

  6. Descent from the Cross - Wikipedia

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    Rosso Fiorentino. Descent from the Cross. 1521.Oil on wood. 375 × 196 cm. Pinacoteca Comunale di Volterra, Italy.. The Descent from the Cross (Greek: Ἀποκαθήλωσις, Apokathelosis), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion (John 19, John 19:38–42).

  7. Chronology of the Crusades, 1095–1187 - Wikipedia

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    The next day, a counterattack is mounted by Kerbogha. [138] 14 June. Peter Bartholomew claims to have miraculously found the Holy Lance. [139] 28 June. The forces of Kerbogha are defeated at the Battle of Antioch. [140] Early July. The Principality of Antioch is established under Bohemond. [p] [141] 1 August.

  8. Last Judgment - Wikipedia

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    Max Heindel, a Danish-American astrologer and mystic, taught that when the Day of Christ comes, marking the end of the current fifth or Aryan epoch, the human race will have to pass a final examination or last judgment, where, as in the Days of Noah, [56] the chosen ones or pioneers, the sheep, will be separated from the goats or stragglers ...

  9. The Descent from the Cross (van der Weyden) - Wikipedia

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    The Descent from the Cross c. 1435.Oil on oak panel, 220cm × 262 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid The Descent from the Cross (or Deposition of Christ, or Descent of Christ from the Cross, or in Flemish Kruisafneming) is a panel painting by the Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden created c. 1435, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.