fief

a northern border fief of the duchy of Aquitaine

Caladrian towns and villages no longer change their relations with you based on religion, until you become their lord (by fief or kinghood).

The noble granted his loyal knight a fief.

The fiefdom was passed down through generations.

The vassal swore allegiance to his lord for the fief.

The fief was a source of wealth and power for the noble family.

The king divided the kingdom into fiefs for his loyal subjects.

The baron's fief included vast lands and villages.

The fief was managed by a steward appointed by the lord.

The knight pledged to protect the fief from invaders.

The fief provided a livelihood for the peasants who worked the land.

The vassal owed military service to his lord in exchange for the fief.

Few if any foreigners in the past half-decade have reached so deeply into the territorial nooks and crannies of Somalia's myriad fiefs.

How typical of a Harkonnen fief, the Duke thought.

They had spent so little time together since the Emperor's command to take over the fief of Arrakis.

Asian tycoons such as Jack Ma of Alibaba have created their own fiefs.

Germany's federal structure has created a patchwork of digital fiefs that are fiercely guarded.

I'll want an earldom and CHOAM directorship for Gurney Halleck, and him in the fief of Caladan.

They've opted to leave with the change of fief and the Judge of the Change is allowing it.

If he worked with it, labored to bring it to fruition, it seemed to me that at most he held it in fief.

That is in no one's interest. Petrobras has made a baby step by allowing outside shareholders to appoint a director, while China sometimes mutters about modest reforms of its industrial fiefs.

" Those bases are still legally His Majesty's fief." " The weather here's savage enough to destroy anything, " the Duke said.