feudal army

This gave him the obligation to provide knights and troops for the royal feudal army.

This was not strictly a feudal army, but an army paid through a system similar to the English.

Problems with the feudal army also emerged at the 1295 parliament when the earl marshal refused to serve abroad unless the king was present.

The era of the knights ended in the 16th century as national armies replaced feudal armies.

The light cavalry lost its privileged position, replaced by a feudal army formed mainly from heavy cavalry.

This was a grand feudal army, one of the last of its kind to leave England in the Middle Ages.

Moreover, feudalism was dying, and the feudal armies controlled by the barons became obsolete.

Chartier lays bare the abuses of the feudal army and the sufferings of the peasants.

Militarily, it saw the introduction of weapons and tactics that supplanted the feudal armies dominated by heavy cavalry.

Henry summoned the feudal army, and the royal forces won an important victory at Northampton, where the younger Simon was captured.

The French were by contrast a classic feudal army made up of a core of 2,500 noble cavalry, including knights and squires.

I had seen the march of feudal armies, the victors returning in triumph, captive princes led past in chains.

Army troops were of two types: The king's personal army directly recruited by the empire and the feudal army under each feudatory.

Many yamabushi were renowned for their skill with a conch, and were hired into feudal armies as kai yaku, or trumpeters.

Sir George hadn't spent the last fifteen years of his life rising to command in the feudal armies of England without learning to deal with much more capable plotters.

The changeover from unpaid feudal armies to professional armies, which was a common phenomenon with secular governments, was also experienced by the papacy in the thirteenth century.

The tenure was one which denoted great honour, but also carried heavy responsibilities as the tenants-in-chief were originally responsible for providing knights and soldiers for the king's feudal army.

To men like Hereford, this was preferable, because as part of a feudal army the participants would have both a stake in the war and a justifiable claim on conquered land.

The service appears to have originated from the feudal armies of Barrayar during the Time of Isolation, until their dissolution by the reforming emperor Dorcas Vorbarra.

The biggest difference from the French and other feudal armies was that the Flemish force consisted almost solely of infantry with only the leaders mounted, more to express their leadership than for combat.

Thomas Maclellan was charged with the raising of a feudal army in the parishes of Dunrod, Galtway and Kirkcudbright to support the Solemn League and Covenant.

The Habsburg army was organized on principles developed for the feudal armies in which regiments were raised by a wealthy noble, called the Inhaber (proprietor) who also acted as honorary colonel.

The Croatian feudal army under the command of Viceroy Derenčin at Krbava field had some 2,000 heavy feudal cavalry and some 8,000 infantry from all parts of Croatia.

It was the largest force that Barbarossa had ever led, and was made up of experienced warriors, loyal princes and vassals, the epitome of the feudal army under its divinely appointed emperor.

The native leaders were as treacherous, scheming, and unscrupulous as the leaders of any feudal army Earth had ever boasted, but they had nowhere near the experience at translating their treacherous schemes into success.