The vampire society in Europe is ruled by Princes and other fief holders, although their power rarely extend beyond their city or domain.

The fief holders exercised local military rule.

This blockade will remain in force until such time as your fief holder confesses to his crimes, or proves his innocence.

In 1565 the tower was restored by Marcantonio Colonna, of the powerful noble family and large fief holders in Lazio and the Papal States.

The first building of the settlement was a mosque commissioned by Sipahi Kapucu a tımarlı sipahi (fief holder) of the Ottoman Empire in 1505.

Within his own sanjak, a governor was responsible above all for maintaining order and, with the cooperation of the fief holders, arresting and punishing wrongdoers.

Hartvig spent much of his career in Norway, initially appearing there in 1430 as the fief holder at Lister where he was known for his organization and fairness.

For this, he usually received half of the fines imposed on miscreants, with the fief holder on whose lands the misdeed took place, receiving the other half.

In other respects, however, they resembled normal Ottoman sanjaks, in that the revenues were registered and allocated to fief holders who went to war under their lord.

Later the Counts of Virneburg were fief holders of the Counts Palatine.