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to vassal

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The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.

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Westeros is governed via a feudal system, with the head of state ruling from King's Landing over the seven kingdoms, equivalent to vassal states or fiefdoms.

Christmas festivities in literature were nothing new: Ben Jonson wrote a play called The Masque of Christmas 16166) and Sir Walter Scott's "Marmion" (1808) describes how the Baron's Hall is opened "to vassal, tenant, serf and all" during the season.

The Age of Empire is passed, and governments throughout the world were uncomfortable with what they saw as the brazen exercise of American authority over a country reduced to vassal status through force of arms.

In the east Rama I and later Rama III (reigned 1824 51) reduced Khmer territories to vassal status, and in the south Rama III strengthened Siamese control over tributary states of the Malay Peninsula.

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Pope Gregory VI was deposed in 1046 because money had changed hands at the time of his election; in the presence of Gregory VII, the canons of the cathedral of Bamberg accused their bishop, Hermann, of simoniacal heresy because he had granted Bamberg estates to vassals of the king.

The Kamakura bakufu gained a reputation for fairness, issuing countless orders of admonition to its vassals to follow the precedents on the land in question.

The reference nested core collections for the cultivated compartment of Vitis vinifera were described for several characteristics and compared to the Vassal collection and to the M-core collection (141 individuals) defined by Barnaud et al. [ 28].

The proportion of table varieties, wine varieties and table/wine varieties was very well conserved in the nested core collections compared to the M-core and to the Vassal collection.

Serious conflict was precipitated in 1293, when clashes between French and English seamen caused Philip the Fair to summon his vassal to Parlement.

On one hand, the gain in the unlinked diversity was high in the G-48, probably due to the decrease in redundancy compared to the Vassal collection (revealed by the number of kingroups).

It normally consisted of land to which a number of unfree peasants were attached; the land was supposed to be sufficient to support the vassal and to secure his knight service for the lord.

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