liegeman
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With the spring he set out, meaning vengeance; but he dissembled and rendered homage, and accepted the sword the lord gives his liegeman.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker
Every liegeman in the town must arm, mount, and ride this instant to Edinburgh.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
Wataru Sampei was a samurai, of samurai stock, and liegeman to his own old masters of Kai province.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
A liegeman must stand by his feudal lord with his goods and with his blood, with life and honour.
From Pine Needles by Susan Warner
As soon as the French had retired, the lord of Bergerac, "after the fashion of the Poitevins," renounced Louis and professed himself the liegeman of Earl Richard.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
By Mr. O'Hara's side sat his two lawyers and outside the door stood some 20 of Pawtucket's police, stout liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here she was in the midst of her own domains, surrounded by her liegemen and retainers, and able to be in constant touch with her artificers and workers, whatever their art or industry.
From Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens by Alice Kemp-Welch
The mode of agreement was obvious; the Popes conferred Southern Italy and Sicily as feuds upon their liegemen the Norman chiefs, and they in return acknowledged the Popes as their lords suzerain.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Deep-sorrowing altogether he brought them safe along, Both king and loyal liegemen, home to Netherland.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Thanks for his friendly message, which you so far have brought, And also for my sister's; it glads my inmost thought To find they all live happy, both king and liegemen bold.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
