Many of their rulers in their inscriptions claim the title of suzerains over Syria, and we have no evidence for denying their pretensions.
It was Damascus which held sway over those territories whose frontiers he respected, and its kings, also suzerains of Hamath and masters of half Israel, were powerful enough to resist, if not conquer, any enemy who might present himself.
These monarchs regarded themselves as traditionary suzerains of the country of Kharu, i.
The great suzerains established, each in his own fief, like tribunals, but of more restricted authority.
But suzerains preferred to take justice into their own hands.
The king and other suzerains administered justice, each in his own domain.
Not merely do many fief holders have several suzerains (as does Conon) and serve some of them very poorly, but there is no real gradation of feudal titles.
Suzerains are insisting that the lower class of vassals arbitrate their quarrels and not embroil the neighborhood.
But the Church, the men of books, and the higher suzerains discourage this practice, especially when the cases are intricate, and one of the litigants cannot fight efficiently or provide a champion.
Resenting all interference of hissuzerains in the governance of his realm, he rebelled against the Company, and sealed his own fate by massacring 150 English merchants of the factory of Patna.
And while Alfred had been over-king of England, his successors became over-kings of the whole isle of Britain, the suzerains of the Scots and the Welsh of Strathclyde, as well as of all the more southern peoples within the four seas.
Thus in various ways ecclesiastical benefices were gradually transformed into fiefs, and lay suzerains claimed the same rights over ecclesiastics as over other vassals from whom they received homage, and whom they invested with lands.
Part IV deals with the reigns, so to speak, of the vassal nobles under the feudal system, the reigns of the suzerains having been already included in Part I.
Part II is occupied by chronological tables of the Emperors and their reigns, of the suzerains and vassal nobles under the feudal system which was introduced about 1100 B.
We have nothing to complain of, therefore, if the Chinese were established as effectivesuzerains in Tibet, able to preserve order there, and co-operating with us in a friendly manner.
Illustration: Fiefs and Suzerains of the Counts of Champagne] [Sidenote: Growth of the possessions of the counts of Champagne typical of the period.
It brought about new conflicts with the popes, who were the feudal suzerains of Naples and Sicily, and ended in the ruin of the house of Hohenstaufen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suzerains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
