Between China and Japan lies the kingdom of Corea, separated by rivers from the former and by a strait of the ocean from the latter, and claimed as a vassal state by both, yet preserving its independence as a state against the pair.
Until the seventeenth century Russia had been a domain of barbarians, weak and disunited, and for a long period the vassal of the savage Mongol conquerors of Asia.
He was forced to become the vassalof the king of Babylonia, and furnish a contingent to his army.
Josiah opposed his enterprise, fearing that if the Egyptian king conquered Syria, he himself would become the vassal of Egypt.
But Jehoiakim was a vassal of Egypt, and had probably furnished troops for Necho at the fatal battle of Carchemish.
His elder brother Eliakim was appointed king in his place, under the name of Jehoiakim, who thus became the vassal of Necho.
Herluin wasvassal to Count Gilbert of Brionne, and had proved himself a brave and loyal knight, both to his overlord and the duke.
It is true that Guy of Ponthieu is his vassal and man, but Guy is governor of his coast, and makes his own laws.
He could add another grievance to his list of Harold's wrongdoings, and now, beside the original disloyalty, William could complain that his vassal had formally refused to keep his formal promise and obligation.
William, in return, agreed to hold his new vassal in highest honor, giving him by and by even the half of his prospective kingdom.
He even goes to the king of France and persuades him to receive the unworthy namesake of Longsword as vassal and next duke, and to Alan of Brittany, who consents to be guardian.
The Count of Flanders was nominallyvassal of both Rome and France, but he was practically his own man.
The fault is great,” he cries, “that the governors of the land and the vassal princes of Pharaoh have committed, in neglecting to watch the movements of the Khita.
While most of these tablets are letters and despatches from friendly powers in Syria, and from vassal princes in Palestine, others contain interesting legends.
A vassal was one of the followers of the baron and paid for protection or for lands he held by fighting in the baron's troops or rendering some other service.
It laid the foundation of endless dissatisfaction on the side of Austria, thus reduced to act as the vassal of a little republic in her own territories, and to keep up fortresses at her own expense, which others were to occupy.
Nor was he insensible to the reproach of Europe, that he was grown the vassal of France and had tarnished the lustre of the English Crown.
Among other absurdities it has been declared that Germany intends to claim a fourth of France, making this dismembered country a vassal State, bound to the triumphal car of the conqueror by the very heaviest chains.
All which he endeavours to express to Egilona in the most eloquent language he can command, while he bends the knee before her as a vassal to his queen.
My hounds may a' rin masterless, My hawks may fly frae tree to tree, My lord may grip my vassal lands, For there again maun I never be!
Followed the voice, a voice from the stable, the cracked, whining tenor of a very agedvassal of the Arrowhead, one Jimmie Time.
But Christianity never struck very deep roots, and, except in the vicinity of the Imperial and vassal Courts, heathenish practices of the worst description were continued down to the middle of the nineteenth century.
There was no better seaman, there was no fiercer fighter, there was no man whose name was so renowned throughout the length and breadth of the Mediterranean, than was that of the corsair king who was vassal to the Sublime Porte.
This preliminary courtesy completed, there came the next act in the drama, which consisted in the immemorial custom of the East in the offering of gifts from Barbarossa to the Sultan, from the vassal to his suzerain.
He laid at the feet of the conqueror the respectful homage of the King of Algiers, who, he assured Selim, desired nothing better than to become the vassal of the Commander of the Faithful.
Beside Nominoe stood Salaun and his brother Gildas Lebrenn, a vassal of the Count of Plouernel on the farm of Karnak.
Marquis of Chateauvieux, also drawing his sword, "let us kill the vassal like a dog!
Obedient to the law of usage, after a certain number of years Stephan became a vassal of the seigniory.
He desired to become a vassal of the Portuguese crown, and to have leave to reside under their jurisdiction.
The Sultan of Sulu is also feudal lord of two vassal Sultanates in Mindanao Island.
Zedekiah was about to swear by his own soul, but the Babylonian king, not satisfied, brought a scroll of the law, and made his Jewish vassal take the oath upon that.
Though Nebuchadnezzar treated him with great friendliness, even making him sovereign lord over five vassal kings, he did not justify the trust reposed in him.
And again, all thevassal troops in Sennacherib's army, set free by Hezekiah, accepted the Jewish faith, and on their way home they proclaimed the kingdom of God in Egypt and in many other lands.
In the mean time, the rebellion of a vassal compels the French monarch to carry the war into Flanders: to this vassal the king of England, the emperor Otho IV.
This is the first authenticated act which elevated the pope into a temporal sovereign, an independent monarch: till this period he had been but a vassal of the empire.
Without vassal loyalty, or abject vassal fear, the monopolist's sleep can never be secure.
For the guest flies the hall, and the vassal from labour, Since his turban was cleft by the infidel's sabre.
Albert Friedrich being still a Minor, the Polish King, Sigismund, proposed to undertake the guardianship of him, as became a superior lord to a subject vassal on such an occasion.
Some of his territories were held of the Holy Roman Empire, and some of the French crown, and he was at once a vassal of France and of the Emperor.
Before issuing his final orders for the assault, Mahomet II summoned the Emperor to surrender the city, and offered him a considerable appanage as a vassal of the Porte elsewhere.
Constantine was too weak to resent the menace with vigor, and Mahomet treated his mild protest with contempt, denying the right of a vassal of the Porte to dispute the Sultan's will.
One of the first owners was Wolf von Hammerstein, a faithful vassal of the Emperor.
Hammerstein was always known later on as the most faithful vassal of the King.
Suddenly a subdued cry was heard, and at the same time the presumptuous vassal sank to the ground, pierced by the sword of him whom God had sent, and expired.
Vassal am I to the youth up yonder," the gilla made answer.
Vassal am I to Conchobar son of Fachtna Fathach, [9]son of the High King of this province.
If a vassal was aggrieved, and if justice was denied him, he sent a defiance, that is, a renunciation of fealty to the king, and was entitled to enforce redress at the point of his sword.
