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Difference between vassal in medieval ages and fief?
A vassal was a person, and a fief was land. A vassal swore allegiance and support to a king, and the king gave the vassal fief to live on.
What would the vassals give to the the lord in exchange for land?
fief or feoff
What is the difference between a fief and manor?
The answer depends somewhat on how specific or particular you want to be. A fief is the land granted to a vassal under feudalism. A manor is an isolated, self-contained village of sorts that is the entire (or less) land of a fief. A manor is typically 1000 acres and approximately 200 people. It is built around a manor house. Technically, there could be many manors on a single fief. So while a fief is the land granted by a lord to a vassal, the manor is the specific economic system of the manor-centric living system of the peasants and nobles in the middle ages.
A piece of land given to vassal by a lord?
A fief.
Can land be given by the church as a fief?
no it can not fore a fief is the way that a vassel makes money
What word means the custom of giving the fief to the eldest surviving son of a vassal?
Surviving fief
What was the form of government that stresses mutual protection between monarchs and nobles?
well i think it would be maybe fief
What words rhyme with F and deal with the word fief?
Fief is not a word in English. Perhaps you mean "fife"?
How does a vassal get his fief?
Vassals agree to fight for the lord, and after an agreement is made the vassal is given a fief in the agreement.
Is a fief is the troops of knights granted to the vassal?
It is true that a fief is the troops of knight that was granted to the vassal.
How do you put fief in a sentence?
The word fief is descended from the old Anglo-French meaning fee or something that is owed. All who lived in a fiefdom owed duty to the fief holder in the form of taxes and service. There are now two sentences above, each using the word fief.
Definitions of Feudalism?
Feudalism is simply the exchange of land (fief), between the nobles (lords) and the knights (vassals) for military protection.
