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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My liege, this fragment was found beside the body deluged in gore.
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Know you, Baron Neufmarché is my liege lord, as William is his.
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The games are over, and Gunther, your liege lord, is the winner.
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And even your husband told me that Gunther was his liege lord.
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See, my liege, they are taking planks and ladders to the outwork.
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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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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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I am vassal to but one; give me Erle Palma, my king.
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But it was quite curious how preoccupied Wynn was with Toret's vassal.
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Thou hast forgotten the poverty thou didst preach, enamoured vassal of Banks!
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Under certain circumstances the vassal was also compelled to make money payments.
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King Gunther receives the fair Recken into his service as a vassal.
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A feudal lord could not have exacted more of his vassal chiefs.
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A vassal is sent to woo a beauteous princess for his lord.
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The proud Brunhild, however, is indignant at her sister-in-law wedding a vassal.
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For the first time Gunther's vassal will then become acquaint with grief.
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For you must know that this Count Riol was the Duke's vassal.
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Royal Catholic Majesty, your Catholic Majesty's most humble vassal, and insignificant servant.
