Fiefs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FIEFS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• FIEF, a feudal estate
• an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service; a fee.
• a person's sphere of operation or control.

Words related to FIEFS

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How to use FIEFS in a sentence

• On the other hand we see conferred the dignity of chivalry upon insignificant people who had never held fiefs, who owed to no one any fealty, and to whom no one owed any.
• In a few years more there were twenty-nine hereditary fiefs.
• A great number of the grandees, who lived far from the court, either in state offices or on their own fiefs, had establishments similar to that of the King.
• Each monarch, too, found this a favourable opportunity to add new fiefs to the crown, and to recall as many great vassals as possible under his dominion.
• Twenty-nine great fiefs, which have played a special part in French history, date back to this epoch.
• And now we will leave the subjects in the case of feudalism, and consider the masters, the owners of fiefs, and their relations one with another.
• Further, it was not from a numerous aristocratic senate, but from himself, and almost from himself alone, that every possessor of fiefs derived his strength and his lustre.
• The assembly was composed exclusively of nobles in possession of fiefs, of ecclesiastical dignitaries, and of a small number of municipal officers.
• There, as in several other great fiefs, women had often been recognized as capable of holding and transmitting sovereignty.
• Thus separate regions of the country were distributed as fiefs.
• In the course of these struggles for power many of the small fiefs were simply destroyed.
• The younger sons were given independent pieces of land with its inhabitants as new, secondary fiefs.
• Thus all the more important fiefs were in the hands of the imperial family, though this did not mean that rivalries came to an end.
• Now it was the custom of the King to summon at that tide his barons and all who held their fiefs of him to his Court for a rich banquet.
• The crown had used to the full its rights over minors and vacant fiefs.
• Then, before the assembled crowd, Louis declared that Philip of France had forfeited the fiefs which he held of the empire.
• For these services they were rewarded with ducal and princely titles, with the administration of their conquests, and with the investiture of fiefs as vassals of the Church.
• But it may be mentioned that some years later he espoused the French cause, and was deprived of his vast hereditary fiefs.
• The country towns obtained wise financial concessions, and the unpopular resumption of lapsed lands and fiefs was discontinued.
• Feudal nobles prided themselves on protecting refugees within their fiefs and castles.
• His hereditary fiefs and honors passed by right to his only son, Virginio.
• He was immediately declared a rebel, with confiscation of his fiefs and property.
• He has created Imperial fiefs, he will therefore make counts.
• Some of them were rich men, especially in the better administered Tokugawa fiefs.
• The Kings of England had come from Normandy and other parts of what is now France and what then were fiefs of the Crown of France, as Scotland was a fief of the Crown of England.
• The Dame of Rupelmonde was lady of seven fiefs beside the barony of Gavres.
• To these wandering priests a dispute over fiefs mattered little, and it was not their first concern to bring King Charles into the possession of his inheritance.
• It was only by degrees that the Royal ordinances came to be current in the fiefs of the greater vassals.
• I pray you, care for my fair son Baldwin, to whom I leave my lands and all my fiefs.
• For services rendered, therefore, fiefs or landed estates were the reward.

Similar words containing FIEF without suffix s

fief10 fiefdom16 fiefdoms17

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