Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 36
f very distant expeditions. Thefeudal seignior stood in place of the sovereign, and being invested with execu-tive authority, had necessarily, in order to exercise it, recourse to the latentforce distributed amongst his vassals, and he naturally did so in accordancewith his own convenience.… … ing- 11.—Act of Faith and Homage, Twelfth Century.—Seal of Conon de Bethune, preserved in the National Archives of France. ing him with their advice, to act with him as judges, or to carry out thesentences he pronounced. He had a right to two kinds of assistance—obligatory, or legal aids, and…
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