A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
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It is the second of our vassal states to ask for help.
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How long do you suppose we could escape becoming a vassal power?
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Each principal vassal was a kind of sovereign, within his particular demesnes.
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The Cid then became a vassal of the Moorish king of Saragossa.
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The vassal of Otho had reduced the successor of Otho to vassalage.
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The king heard it well and feared him for his liegeman's life.
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Brunhild, in great anger, employed Hagan, liegeman of Gunther, to murder Siegfried.
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Hagen sorely wounded Hawart's liegeman with his sword through shield and breastplate.
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Dole enow it gave them, for no longer might Hawart's liegeman live.
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I, that am his true and loving liegeman, should be with him.'
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Each of us is like some feudatory prince, dependent upon an overlord.
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He was not twenty when the three feudatory princes broke into open rebellion.
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By far the greater number of the Indian feudatory chiefs are still under Brahman influence.
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The Jew, often acquiring wealth in commerce, might become valuable property of some feudatory lord.
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The horrified Gregory summoned every disaffected feudatory of the empire in effect to disown the emperor.
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You are my faithful liege subject, and I know that you love and obey me.
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Ishmael is my protégé, my liege subject.
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And he killeth thy deer and robbeth thine own liege subjects even upon the great highways.
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I will yield up, voluntarily, all right to command in the host-evenmine own liege subjects.
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To prove this, he summoned his liege subjects to attend a dance in honour of the event.
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The German General Staff had taken to mind the lesson of Liege.
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A revolution has been effected very suddenly in the bishoprick of Liege.
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Standard Liege went into the encounter third in the Belgian top flight.
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He soon returned to the continent, and died at Liege in 1372.
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Let's say you're a Liege-Graf from one of the less important Marrows.
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The trunk line from Germany into Belgium crosses the Meuse at Liege.
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At the age of twenty-three he became a canon of Liege Cathedral.
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The German troops are ready at Aix-la-Chapelle for an assault on Liege.
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The Archbishop was also Bishop of Liege, of Munster, and of Hildesheim.
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My Liege, I pray that you will read the letter herein enclosed.
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The cannonade resounded over Liege, as if with constant peals of thunder.
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Because I am afraid that there will be hard fighting around Liege.
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Tungri, an ancient people inhabiting about where Tongres, in Liege, now is
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The defenses of Liege were hardly worth an enemy's gunfire before 1890.
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We'll hold Liege with a small force as long as we can.
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The province of Liege was the cradle of the Christian faith.
