fealty

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Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.

Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.

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Augustinus Theiner (editor), Codex Diplomaticus dominii temporalis S. Sedis I (Rome 1861), p. 197 no. 349. In a letter of 4 March, the Pope testifies that King Charles had sworn fealty for the Kingdom of Naples and of Sicily. Source: Internet

From Morocco to Oman, those states have maintained varying degrees of distance allegedly out of fealty to the Palestinian issue. Source: Internet

According to ex-members quoted in the Times report, the DOS functions as a kind of master-slave pyramid scheme, in which “slave” members swear fealty to designated “masters,” who in turn are the slaves of their own “masters,” with Raniere at the top. Source: Internet

Demski, 33 n, 3. The negotiations which Cardinal Giovanni Caetano had been engaged in with King Charles I were brought to a completion, and Charles swore his oath of fealty to Pope John on 7 October 1276. Source: Internet

Duke Burchard II of Swabia soon swore fealty to the new King, but Duke Arnulf of Bavaria did not submit until Henry defeated him in two campaigns in 921. Henry besieged his residence at Ratisbon ( Regensburg ) and forced Arnulf into submission. Source: Internet

In 1238 Llywelyn held a council at Strata Florida Abbey where the other Welsh princes swore fealty to Dafydd. Source: Internet

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