fief , auch: feoff

At the same time he received it back as a fief.

He was also accused of trying to make the country a personal fief.

The estate was given the status of a fief in 1754.

But they may have already moved him out of the fief."

His personal fief alone was worth enough to feed and support some 2.5 million people.

The lord also gave him the piece of land that he held as a fief.

It was given as a fief to Peter and stayed in his family's hands until 1536.

At this time, some other estates were added to his fief.

The farm was also an important fief with a castle.

It would make less work for me if there were a strong man to hold the fief."

But Bordeaux is no large fief, able to stand alone.

He was deprived of his fief and unable to return home.

In 1358, he was compensation with other fiefs and possessions.

"The fief has no money; they'll let anyone go if they give them enough cash in exchange."

In the election campaign, he used the institutions of Government and the mass media as if they were his personal fiefs.

So I've decided to take her there, also with a fief of mine, next august.

However, under Danish law, he was not entitled to part of the fief.

He had to pay a large sum of money to receive this fief.

The second lord died without a son, and his nephew became the head of the fief.

Instead, most fiefs and lands went to the eldest son.

At the death of his father, Roberto inherited the family fiefs.

Recorded since 1075, it was the fief of numerous great families over the years.

In contrast, an upper class member used the name of the fief he was given by the king.

Until the 2003 peace deal, the country was divided into rebel fiefs.

Mexico's banks have been fiefs of personal power, second only perhaps to the presidency.

Then I will give those same lands back to him as a feoff."

Until the middle of the 19th century the area was dominated by Denmark, which initially ran the region as a feoff, but eventually integrated it into the Danish nation-state.

"You are to announce my intent to buy from the Regulus the lands that Righ Roberto of Ulaid holds in feoff from him.

"An' so, Bass, wiy ease an auld monfs mind anf take this feoff an' fealty tae me until I be back?"

Yuan Taotu was granted a feoff in Yangxia (陽夏), in what is now Taikang county, Henan.

"I am instructed that Eleusis is in vassalage to Athens now; a feoff of the King's heir, whom, I take it, I have the honor to speak with."

"Your Grace, my friend Bass, you rendered an oath of fealty to Arthur III Tudor, you hold your various English lands in feoff from him.

With the death of Carlo Sfondrati in 1788, the feoff of Bellagio passed in the hands of the illustrious family of Serbelloni.

Nor did a rumor that Queen Angela had persuaded her royal spouse to journey to Rome, sign over England to her uncle, the Pope, and then accept it back as a Papal feoff help matters at all.

The name Ochsenkopf appeared in mining deeds for the first time in 1495, when Lorenz von Ploben from Nürnberg was given the mine on the Fichtelberge "near the Ochsenkopf" as a feoff.

Took a leaf from Arthur's book, they say, de£ clared his Empire was no longer a Papal feoff and flatly refused to go to Rome to be crowned by the Pope . . . and the Electors backed him up too, to a man.

Regulus of the Western Isles of Scotland has, it is said, more real power than King James of Scotland-in point of fact, King James is, himself, one of the vassals of the Regulus, holding lands in the central highlands in feoff from him.

In 1533 Francesco Sfondrati bought the feoff of Bellagio and for more than 200 years the Sfondrati family remained the most important reference point for Bellagio and its entire history together with the progress and happenings of the town were associated with this family.