liege

an oath of fealty and liege homage.

"Thou shalt have it, fair kinswoman, were it against a host -- always excepting my liege lord, of Burgundy.But there is little time to talk of it.

"You do not know the men of Liege," said the Chaplain, "of whom it may be said, that, not even excepting those of Ghent, they are at once the fiercest and the most untameable in Europe.

fealty to one's liege

swear fealty to one's liege