Sentence examples for feudatory from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, in the mid-8th century, a feudatory of the Calukyas, Dantidurga of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, rose to importance and established himself in place of the declining Calukya dynasty.

Rashtrakuta power declined suddenly, however, after the reign of Indra, and this was fully exploited by the feudatory Taila.

The last of the Calukya rulers, Someshvara IV (reigned 1181 c. 1189), regained the throne for a short period, after which he was overthrown by a feudatory of the Yadava dynasty.

Communication facilities were undeveloped before 1947, but the merger of a number of feudatory states with what was then Orissa and the discovery of mineral resources required the construction of a network of good roads.

As long as a ruler was in a feudatory status, he called himself samanta and acknowledged his overlord in official documents and charters.

The imperialistic programs of the Chalukyas of Kalyani helped them, for under the Hoysala rulers Vinayaditya (reigned c. 1047 98) and his grandson Vishnuvardhana (reigned c. 1110 41) they gained wide experience as feudatory generals.

By the 12th century any lord of moderate status might style himself count, no less than the truly great feudatories of Flanders and Toulouse; and even in the 13th century, when the organization of the French kingdom became more stable, the title might mean much or comparatively little.

Powerful landed interests forced Andrew to spend royal funds so recklessly that the crown was soon impoverished and dependent on the feudatories, who soon reduced Hungary to a state of near anarchy.

At the end of the 9th century, however, the Pala kingdom declined, with feudatories in Kamarupa (modern Assam) and Utkala (Orissa) taking independent titles.

The Calukyas fell about 753 to one of their own feudatories, the Rashtrakutas under Dantidurga, who established a dynasty.

The Later Calukyas, however, by and large retained control over the western Deccan despite the hostility of the Colas and of their own feudatories.