Finally it became a fief of the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein, though often hypothecated for loans advanced to these princes by the free city of Hamburg.
At an early period Heidelberg was a fief of the bishop of Worms, who entrusted it about 1225 to the count palatine of the Rhine, Louis I.
They hold their castle asfief of the Empire, and the coffers of the Church are dolefully empty.
The bulwark of Terra di Lavoro, I hold castello and port as hereditary fief of Emperor Frederick!
This is supposed to have been the site of a hunting box of Pippin, and certainly the counts of La Roche held it in fief from his descendants, the Carolingian rulers.
Its original name was Duverger, derived from a fief near Bressuire in Poitou, and its pedigree is traceable to the 13th century.
What most irritated him was the close proximity of Norby's fief to Sweden.
The fief of Stäket had long been a bone of contention between the Church and State.
Noël d'Arnaye and Catherine de Vaucelles were married in the September of 1462, and afterward withdrew to Noël's fief in Picardy.
A fief was granted to Messire Darke, in Norfolk, where Hugues shortly built for himself a residence at Yaxham, and began to look about for a wife: it was not long before he found one.
But while Adhelmar had busied himself in the acquisition of some scant fame and a vast number of scars, Hugues had sensibly inherited the fief of Arques, a snug property with fertile lands and a stout fortress.
At the coronation of Hugh Capet, Normandy ceased to be the Land of Pirates, and became the mightiest and noblest fief of the French crown, its most loyal and most daring vassal.
This fief of the Earl of Leicester was but one of the many acquisitions by which Philip Augustus gradually bought out the feudal barons and made sure of Normandy.
The whole country was placed as a fief under the rule of the Hundred Associates, a company which also exercised a trading and colonizing monopoly, but made no success, and was dissolved in 1663.
This was secured by taking the first under their protection, by making themselves Obermärkers, and by changing vassals who held office in fief into employes (Beamte).
O who hast quitted these abodes and faredst fief and light, viii.
But if King Olaf Haroldsson wishes to rule Norway, let him fare to King Canute and receive the land from him as a fief and become his man and pay such tribute as the earls had earlier paid.
Later the Earls found it advisable to make peace with the Soli family and gave Erling Skjalgsson a magnificent fief in the South-west.
Towards the end of the 13th century Beaumanoir clearly laid down this principle: "All secular jurisdiction in France is held from the king as a fiefor an arriere-fief.
The countship, which formed a fief dependent on the kingdom of Burgundy, passed to Renaud I.
The De Courcies, once Earls of Ulster, had migrated to the south, and were reduced to the petty fief of Kinsale, which they held under the Desmonds.
If Ireland was a fief of the pope, the same power which had made a present of it to Henry II.
He waited in expectation of the second letter; but the emperor told him that he could not have the fief of Burgundy, for the empress, who was also the widow of the last duke, was strongly against it.
Not long afterwards Wittich was married to Bolfriana, and was endowed by the emperor with the great fiefof Drachenfels, which extends to Fritilaburg (Friedburg?
Count Gerhart appeared amongst the rest, for he expected that this would be the time chosen by the emperor to invest him with the promised fief of Viane (Vienne in France), and perhaps also with that of Burgundy.
As we said before, Herbrand's fief consisted of the district and castle of Garden.
He kissed the tears from her eyes, and continued: "Accept no fief from Kaiser Karl.
Upon the principality of Orange, as an arriere-fief of the empire.
Upon the duchy of Milan, ceded by the Emperor Wincenslaus to Galeas Visconti, but considered as a fief of the empire.
Frederick Barbarossa granted to it in fiefthe coast from Monaco to Portovenere; it is free under Charles V.
Upon Denmark, formerly a fief of the empire; Otho I.
Berkhampstead was the head of an honour carved from the fief of Robert of Mortain.
So long as they were fulfilled, he, and his heir after him, held the fief as his property, practically and in relation to all under-tenants as if he were the owner.
And it was King Janus himself who gave Pelendria--that most royal and bountiful fief of a prince of Lusignan--into the hands of that parvenu of Naples, Rizzo!
After Theobald the Great the countship of Blois ceased to be the dominant fief of his house and became the appanage of a younger branch.
Documents of the 12th and 13th centuries make it possible to determine the territorial configuration of the countship of Champagne with greater accuracy than in the case of any other fief of the crown of France.
For myself, I am a rich vavasour, and come of noble ancestry, having fief and land worth fully one thousand pounds each year in rent.
Should they see thee amongst them the better will the men-at-arms defend their bodies and their substance, thy fief and mine.
When Amile might not find Amis, he departed from the castle, greatly vexed, and resolved within himself that he would not solace himself in his own fief until he had met with Amis, his friend.
This sweet fief was builded by a certain knight, whose heir sold it to a villein; for thus pass baronies from hand to hand, and town and manor change their master, always falling from bad to worse.
His fief and domain were fully worth one thousand pounds a year, and many an one asked of him his fair daughter in marriage, because her exceeding beauty was parcel of the loveliness of the world.
Then they asked to what realm they had fared, and men told them that it was the fief of the King of Torelore.
The fief of Robert de Buci was bestowed on Richard Basset, founder of Laund Abbey, in the reign of Henry I.
He disposes of his wealth between the poor and the church, and retires to a fief whose tenant is willing to receive his suzerain as a guest.
Depleted nobles would marry daughters of wealthy peasants, and a gentleman whose fieflay among well-to-do farmers might easily meet them in social relations.
The fief was granted to me last night by the queen herself, the Duc d'Enghien and General Gassion having been good enough to make a good deal more of that night adventure of ours than it deserved.
It is the fief of la Villar in Poitou, and the most absurd point of the thing is that with it is a title, and I am now Colonel Campbell, Baron de la Villar.
Three days ago I received from Cardinal Mazarin bills to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand crowns, being, he said, due to you for the surrender of the fief of la Villar, and for other services rendered to him.
You must remember that I may be killed in the next battle I go into, and as I have no heirs the king will give the fief to someone else.
On these occasions Simon usually held upon his knee an ancient broadsword, which had belonged to his ancestors before any of the family had consented to accept a fiefunder the peaceful dominion of the monks of St. Mary's.
Such is the fief of Les Touches, from which the Revolution lopped its feudal rights.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fief" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
