FEUDALISM WORDS
CHEVALIER
FIEF VASSAL (Susan
Reynolds book 1994)
ANCIEN REGIME (governed
France before the1789 Revolution)
BENEFICE (Often
used as equivalent to "fief", but also for the land holding of a priest)
INCIDENTS:
RELIEF WARDSHIP & MARRIAGE
COUNSEL AID
INVESTITURE
EUCHARIST
DEFIANCE
SUZERAINTY (Late
medieval coinage, meaning overlordship)
SEIZIN (comes to mean
possession of land)
ESCHEAT