Feudal fragmentation is a process whereby a feudal state is split into smaller regional state structures, each characterized by significant autonomy, if...

in 1138, Poland was divided among his sons. The resulting internal fragmentation eroded the initial Piast monarchical structure in the 12th and 13th...

France saw what has been called by historians a "feudal revolution" or "mutation" and a "fragmentation of powers" (Bloch) that was unlike the development...

and a Pomeranian vassal. As a result, Poland entered a period of feudal fragmentation that lasted for over 200 years. During the first half of the 13th...

urban sociology Feudal fragmentation, in European history Habitat fragmentation, in an organism's preferred environment Market fragmentation, the existence...

of the land to the king while providing military service to his causes, feudal society was structured around hierarchical relationships involving land...

Middle Ages was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic...

of feudal fragmentation that lasted for more than 187 years during which Poland was severely weakened due to incessant internal conflicts. The feudal fragmentation...

was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or support. This distinguished it from...

element of the feudal system in the Holy Roman Empire. It was sworn between two people, the feudal subject or liegeman (vassal) and his feudal superior (liege...

In the Middle Ages, especially under the European feudal system, feoffment /ˈfɛfmənt/ or enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange...

code of Kievan Rus' and its principalities during the period of feudal fragmentation. It was written at the beginning of the 12th century and remade during...

In feudal Anglo-Norman England and Ireland, a knight's fee was a unit measure of land deemed sufficient to support a knight. It would not only provide...

A feudal baron is a vassal holding a heritable fief called a barony, comprising a specific portion of land, granted by an overlord in return for allegiance...

internecine conflicts and the eventual decline of centralized power. The feudal fragmentation of Kievan Rus' began in the late 11th century, driven by a complex...

Under the English feudal system several different forms of land tenure existed, each effectively a contract with differing rights and duties attached thereto...

(/fiːf/; Latin: feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted...

English history took place under Edward I (reigned 1272–1307) when the feudal levy was replaced with royal payment in return for military service by the...

development of feudalism, and diminished the importance of the Veche. The feudal militia, raised by the Boyars-landowners and individual princes, came to...

the creation of all-Russian legislation, and the elimination of feudal fragmentation. It was later replaced by the Sudebnik of 1550 under Ivan IV. The...

having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe. While the subordinate party is called a vassal...

Austria-Hungary Dissolution of the Soviet Union Divide and rule Feudal fragmentation Kleinstaaterei Lebanonization Levantinization Pillarisation Protracted...

Seignory Subinfeudation Feoffee Fealty Homage Affinity Feudal maintenance Feudal fragmentation Bastard feudalism Livery Manorialism Lord of the manor...

Feudal duties were the set of reciprocal financial, military and legal obligations among the warrior nobility in a feudal system. These duties developed...

Feudal aid is the legal term for one of the financial duties required of a feudal tenant or vassal to his lord. Variations on the feudal aid were collected...

Under the feudal system in England, a feoffee (/fɛˈfiː, fiːˈfiː/) is a trustee who holds a fief (or "fee"), that is to say an estate in land, for the use...

became one of the strongest states in the Balkan Peninsula. However, feudal fragmentation remained important in Bosnia and the Bosnian nobility held significant...

Feudal maintenance under feudal systems of government, was the money payment to soldiers who fought in the interest and at the command of their lord....

cash payment as commercial activity increased. Manorialism was part of the feudal system. Manorialism originated in the Roman villa system of the Late Roman...

owning rural land estates often brought with it the legal rights of the feudal lordship of the manor, and the less formal name or title of squire, in Scotland...