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A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
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n.
A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
n.
A fief. See Fief.
n.
One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
n.
That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
n.
The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
n.
A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
n.
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
a.
Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.
n.
A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant.
n.
An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
n.
A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
a.
Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.
v. t.
To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment.
n.
An estate in lands; a fief.
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