liegeman

Redet, without answering, made off, and as he told every one of this encounter, Hébert the liegeman of Mme. de Combray, had instantly begged him not to spread it about.

From The House of the Combrays by G. Le Notre

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

From Tales from the Old French by Various

Ru´diger, a wealthy Hun, liegeman of Etzel, sent to conduct Kriemhild to Hungary.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Geoffrey was an old man; he had long held the great post of justiciar of Ireland; and he was himself the liegeman of the marshal.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt

Why, I am George-a-Greene, True liegeman to my king, Who scorns that men of such esteem as these Should brook the braves of any traitorous squire.

From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

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

Normans, in Southern Italy, 92; in Sicily, 93; become liegemen to the Popes, 93.

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

Uptrain'd was he by sages, who what was honor knew, So might he win full lightly broad lands and liegemen too.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

His wife he would leave in his domain, and bade his friends and liegemen that they guard her loyally.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

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