Person who has entered into a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.
A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
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Examples for "liege"
Examples for "liege"
1
My liege, this fragment was found beside the body deluged in gore.
2
Know you, Baron Neufmarché is my liege lord, as William is his.
3
The games are over, and Gunther, your liege lord, is the winner.
4
And even your husband told me that Gunther was his liege lord.
5
See, my liege, they are taking planks and ladders to the outwork.
1
The king heard it well and feared him for his liegeman's life.
2
Brunhild, in great anger, employed Hagan, liegeman of Gunther, to murder Siegfried.
3
Hagen sorely wounded Hawart's liegeman with his sword through shield and breastplate.
4
Dole enow it gave them, for no longer might Hawart's liegeman live.
5
I, that am his true and loving liegeman, should be with him.'
1
Each of us is like some feudatory prince, dependent upon an overlord.
2
He was not twenty when the three feudatory princes broke into open rebellion.
3
By far the greater number of the Indian feudatory chiefs are still under Brahman influence.
4
The Jew, often acquiring wealth in commerce, might become valuable property of some feudatory lord.
5
The horrified Gregory summoned every disaffected feudatory of the empire in effect to disown the emperor.
1
You are my faithful liege subject, and I know that you love and obey me.
2
Ishmael is my protégé, my liege subject.
3
And he killeth thy deer and robbeth thine own liege subjects even upon the great highways.
4
I will yield up, voluntarily, all right to command in the host-evenmine own liege subjects.
5
To prove this, he summoned his liege subjects to attend a dance in honour of the event.
1
It is the second of our vassal states to ask for help.
2
How long do you suppose we could escape becoming a vassal power?
3
Each principal vassal was a kind of sovereign, within his particular demesnes.
4
The Cid then became a vassal of the Moorish king of Saragossa.
5
The vassal of Otho had reduced the successor of Otho to vassalage.
6
I am vassal to but one; give me Erle Palma, my king.
7
But it was quite curious how preoccupied Wynn was with Toret's vassal.
8
Thou hast forgotten the poverty thou didst preach, enamoured vassal of Banks!
9
Under certain circumstances the vassal was also compelled to make money payments.
10
King Gunther receives the fair Recken into his service as a vassal.
11
A feudal lord could not have exacted more of his vassal chiefs.
12
A vassal is sent to woo a beauteous princess for his lord.
13
The proud Brunhild, however, is indignant at her sister-in-law wedding a vassal.
14
For the first time Gunther's vassal will then become acquaint with grief.
15
For you must know that this Count Riol was the Duke's vassal.
16
Royal Catholic Majesty, your Catholic Majesty's most humble vassal, and insignificant servant.
