Vassal: Difference between revisions
From Cunnan
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
In the [[feudal]] system, a '''vassal''' was one who owed [[fealty]] to a superior, whether a [[king]], a [[lord]] or simply someone higher than him or her self. |
In the [[feudal]] system, a '''vassal''' was one who owed [[fealty]] to a superior, whether a [[king]], a [[lord]] or simply someone higher than him or her self. |
||
It follows that the description of a vassal differs depending on where the describer sits: to a [[king]] all his subjects are vassals (and he may have sub-kings under him, who are also his vassals). |
|||
Note that the relationship is not transitive: simply because person X was a vassal to lord Y who was in turn the vassl of Baron Z, does not imply that X is a vassal of Z. |
|||
{{stub}} |
{{stub}} |
||
Revision as of 06:47, 25 January 2007
In the feudal system, a vassal was one who owed fealty to a superior, whether a king, a lord or simply someone higher than him or her self.
Note that the relationship is not transitive: simply because person X was a vassal to lord Y who was in turn the vassl of Baron Z, does not imply that X is a vassal of Z.
This article is a stub. You can help Cunnan by expanding it.
