Worn out by constant warfare the Teutonic Knights, by the treaty of Thorn, cede West Prussia to Casimir IV of Poland; they retain East Prussia as a fief of Poland. 1467.

Cumberland and Westmoreland, England, granted as a fief to Malcolm, King of Scotland. 946.

Thou wert born my vassal, Gino Monaldi; and though trained from boyhood in this occupation of a gondolier, thou art properly a being of my fiefs in Napoli.

The father of Charles found himself stronger than his king, possessor not only of Burgundy, but of many other fiefs from Germany as well as France, and lord of the Netherlands as well.

At last, however, the contrary rule prevailed, which caused the lands not to change quality in changing owners: the noble could still possess the labourers's lands without losing his nobility, but the labourer could be proprietor of a fief without thereby becoming a noble.

The answer was, that the lord ought in that case to take back the fief as his own property.

"Besides, the King intends to take from me my fief at Sudbury," said the Duke of York, "in order to give it to de Vere.

He was the Daimio of Hikone, a castled town and fief on Lake Biwa, in Mino.

If a lesser baron had subdivided his fief among certain knights and squires, the peasants owed allegiance, not to him, but to the squire to whom they had been assigned.

He created him Duke of Citta di Pennaa fief within the Papal Statesand decided that the riches and greatness of the House of Medici should be continued in Alessandro and not in Ippolito.

But in some cases this tree began as a branch of that of the imperial family: this was the case of the feudal lords who were of imperial descent and whose ancestors had been granted fiefs after the conquest of the country.