During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries literature was cultivated and art was encouraged by a large proportion of the sovereigns and feudatories of Italy, when the bravest condottieri were often their most liberal patrons.
Taught by the lesson of three successive pontificates, whose policy it had been to crush the feudatories of Umbria, he saw the necessity of making common cause with such of these as still maintained a precarious independence.
The independence of the greater feudatories was still further limited by the principle, which the Conqueror seems to have observed, of avoiding the accumulation in any one hand of a great number of contiguous estates.
The service which a king was able to exact from his feudatories was so slight (varying from one month to three in the year) that no military operation which was at all likely to be prolonged could be undertaken with any hope of success.
They were for the most part feudatories of the Bishop of Strassburg.
The ecclesiastical foundations, as before said, were especially expert in forging documents for the purpose of proving that these free villages were lapsed feudatories of their own.
Men were stabbing and hewing upon the barricades where Morolt's feudatories had stormed up from the gloom of the streets.
For the rest, Flavian's feudatories were loyal, and left the managing of the business to their lord.
The Lauretian feudatorieshad swarmed to the charge.
His feudatories were bound to him by ties more strong than mere legalities.
Louis had been bold in his utterance to the States-General as to his perfect right to ignore the treaty of Conflans, to dispossess his brother, and to bring the great feudatories to terms.
Public opinion declared that national weakness would be inevitable if the feudatories were unbridled in their centrifugal tendencies.
Artabanus had left sons; and there were not wanting those among the feudatories of the empire, and even among the neighboring potentates, who were well inclined to embrace their cause.
Perhaps the Parthian feudatoriesgenerally paid a price for their investiture.
The princes who occupied the position of Parthian feudatories gave hostages to their suzerain, who were frequently their near relations, as sons or brothers.
The other feudatories under the old monarchy, but who were in reality independent sovereigns under the new, were the Dukes of Normandy and Flanders, and Aquitaine and Toulouse.
So Baldwyn gave them large tracts of country; and they became vassals and feudatories for fertile fields near Jericho and rich farms on the Jordan.
It also formed a court of justice, in which the feudatories gave judgment under the presidency of their lord; and all of them claimed to be subject only to the jurisdiction of this tribunal composed of their peers.
We cannot yet discern with any certainty by what process it was formed, why those six prelates and those six great feudatories in particular were selected rather than others equally eligible.
It also formed an assembly in which common interests were discussed, the lord, according to custom, being bound to consult hisfeudatories and they to advise him to the best of their power.
They might, in short, take of Wales as much as they could keep, subject only to holding what they acquired as feudatories of the King.
So in 1212, when Pope Innocent absolved all John's feudatories from their allegiance, it furnished an admirable excuse for Llewelyn to reoccupy the whole of his ancient dominion of Gwynedd.
They were attended by thirty-eight envoys from the princes, cities, and great feudatories of Italy, excluding those of Venice and Siena, retarded by bad weather.
The Montefeltri of Urbino had their bends or, impaled with the eagle as feudatories of the empire.
Their able diplomacy and ample means were especially directed to thwart the views of his Holiness upon the feudatories of Romagna.
Indeed, the whole state of parties in that strife curiously illustrates the chances and changes on which depended success in the intestine broils of Italian feudatories and captains of adventure.
The neighbouring feudatorieswere necessarily opposed to ecclesiastical rights that greatly infringed the value of their own tenure.
It was Margarita, Margarita who had recognized her mysterious lover in that great and dreadful lord, the Count of Gômara, one of the most exalted and powerful feudatories of the Crown of Castile.
Such great feudatories were never possible in the Kamakura period.
The territories owned by great feudatories or daimyo in the Ashikaga age were by no means compact entities definitely bounded.
The nature of the sovereignty, therefore, of the Tokugawa over the feudatories aforesaid was only that of primus inter pares.
The governmental sites of the daimyo orfeudatories of the Tokugawa period generally find the origin of their urban development in these residences of the shugo of the Ashikaga period.
The Christian army consisted of the feudatories of the kingdom of Jerusalem, numerous small contingents of European crusaders and the military orders, and contingents from Egypt, Turkestan, Syria and Mesopotamia fought under Saladin.
Alexander availed himself of the defeat of the French to break the power of the Orsini, following the general tendency of all the princes of the day to crush the great feudatories and establish a centralized despotism.
The citizens found themselves in opposition to the nobility of the hills around the city, Teutonic feudatories of Ghibelline sympathies, who interfered with their commerce.
They were at first feudatories of the counts of Toulouse, but chafing under this yoke they soon succeeded in throwing it off, and during the 13th and 14th centuries were among the most powerful of the French feudal nobles.
Secure as was his control over Central and Southern Arabia, the northern feudatories backed by Heraclius were still obdurate and even openly hostile.
The catastrophe was a signal for a massed attack upon Mahomet's power from the whole of the border district, led by the feudatories of Heraclius, who were bent upon exterminating the upstart.
When Mahomet heard that the feudatories were massed under the bidding of Heraclius at Hims, he realised there was no time to be lost.
The latter alternately lured and contemptuously defied him, rendered the treatment of his own restless feudatories uncertain, and provoked disturbances in Rome which led to the robbing of the papal treasury by the Pope’s own son.
Of the Anegundi chiefs we know little, but they were probably feudatories of the Hoysala Ballalas.
Another authority suggests that Bukka and Harihara may have been feudatoriesof the Hoysala Ballalas.
We know that at this time he was eagerly seeking Cesare's friendship, sorely uneasy as to the fate that might lie in store for his own dominions, once the Duke of Valentinois should have disposed of the feudatories of the Church.
Although it was some time before all the great French feudatories yielded to the spirit of reform, the French King himself had abandoned the practice of investiture for those bishops who were under his control.
These smaller feudatories did not comply with the increased demands of modern times as regards the administration of Indian states as often as did the greater princes.
As they were paid only periodically it became impossible for them to make themselves independent (as the feudatories had done) and then to turn on their paymaster.
Besides these he had his feudatories of the palatinate; six bannerets and one hundred and sixty knights, not one of whom, says an old poem, but surpassed Arthur himself, though endowed with the charmed gifts of Merlin.
That government, as suzerain in India, does not allow its feudatories to form alliances with each other or with foreign states.
The Naiks or feudatories of Vijayanagar everywhere asserted their independence.
At the same time the several states of Rajputana accepted the position of feudatories of the paramount power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feudatories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
