Vassalage
- Noun
Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
- Noun
Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage.
- Noun
The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
- Noun
Vassals, collectively; vassalry.
- Noun
A territory held in vassalage.
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Vassal
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to the mid-eleventh centuries as a vassalage of the Kingdom of Asturias and later the Kingdoms of Galicia
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of Aquitaine, to whom they owed theoretical vassalage. Centule was also Count of Bigorre jure uxoris as Centule I.
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Álvaro XIV of Kongo
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Theresa, Countess of Portugal
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Robe of honour
or acceptance of vassalage of a subordinate ruler. They were usually produced in government