Additionally, many holders of smaller fiefdoms per baroniam ceased to be summoned to parliament.
Even though neither of these powers could establish themselves in Sicily permanently, under Hasan as-Samsam (1040-1053) the island fragmented into small fiefdoms.
Melchior is the oldest, so he would have inherited our lands, but I would have received a small fiefdom as well.
Nobility also had much power in their small fiefdoms which were, in some cases, looked upon as autonomous states.
The Assembly is a joke, we vote in a government that is made up of small fiefdoms and there is no opposition as everybody is in government.
However, in 1578 he applied to the imperial court for a small fiefdom in Silesia, Guppern (unidentified).
There's a small fiefdom squeezed between the mountains and the sea southwest of the Hundelstone pass.
Instead of more or less centralized state like the Samanids, Karakhanid Central Asia was divided into many small fiefdoms or appanages.
Somalia is war-torn into small fiefdoms, which makes it extremely difficult for anyone - institutions or NGOs - to deliver food aid to the starving people.
Soon Federico da Montefeltro besieged it and Roberto was forced to abandon it, in exchange of a small fiefdom nearby for himself.