royal fief

The term traditionally referred to a holder of a royal fief.

He was condemned, and his duchy and county of Verdun (a royal fief) were seized.

Unlike the Free Judges, the nobility in Kłodzko held their property only as a royal fief.

Andria had been a royal fief which the Duke's father received from Beatrice of Anjou, by virtue of her dower.

Sark's system of government dates back to 1565, when Queen Elizabeth 1 granted "letters patent" to the first seigneur to hold the island as a "royal fief".

He traded and exported goods from the royal fiefs (Sleswick and Holsatia), and he had extensive connections to Norway.

It is a royal fief, which forms part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament.

More often he was occupied defending the eastern frontier from invasion by Aragon or Navarre, and for this purpose the king invested him with many royal fiefs in this region.

Sark has operated under a feudal system for 450 years, after Elizabeth I granted the island's feudal lord, or Seigneur, the right to operate it as an independent "royal fief".

The settlers could not be traitors nor any "count or other power who possessed royal fiefs", but those who were in disgrace or had gained the king's anger could take refuge in Oreja.

Most of the conquered territory was retained as a royal fief, and these lands subsequently became, by custom, the territorial endowment of the heir to the English throne with the title Prince of Wales.

The Bishops of Augsburg were, moreover, not only the ecclesiastical superiors of their diocese, but after the 10th century possessed the Regalia, the right of holding and administering royal fiefs with concomitant jurisdiction.

The manor then became the royal fief of Gladsaxehus, together with the parish of Gladsax, the settlement of Simrishamn and significant portions of Albo Hundred as the outlying land of the fief.

In 1282, King Rudolph I of Germany gave Count Heinrich III of Hohenecken and his wife Margarethe leave to sell the estate of Mittelrohrbach, a royal fief, with all its appurtenances and serfs to Otterberg Abbey.

According to the late Crónica de Veinte Reyes Manrique demanded that Fernando turn over the castle of Huete, but the latter refused, citing Sancho III's command that tenants should continue to hold their royal fiefs until Alfonso VIII came of age.