liegeman

The English king’s beasts were leopards in blazon, in ballad and chronicle, and in the mouths of liegeman and enemy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

Therefore command me even now, for I am your liegeman, and my heart is wholly pledged to you, fair one.

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan

There he lived peacefully, and did homage to the king and became his liegeman and burgess.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

Then, looking o'er his shoulder, King Gunther's liegeman eyed The crowd to find a comrade, whom in a trice he spied.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

It is the tale of most men that Kjartan on the day he laid aside his white baptismal-robes became a liegeman of the king's, he and Bolli both.

From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press

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

Ye are all the king's liegemen, and ye should keep good faith with him.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

X Then bade his father Siegmund all his liegemen tell, With his dear friends to revel it would please him well.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

The popes sought in vain to keep in order their quarrelsome liegemen; to reconcile Guelf with Guelf, and even Guelf with Ghibelline.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Under the feudal system the term of service in the field for the liegemen of the Emperor had been forty days; but that time was too short for an effective campaign.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick