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 68
of Franconia, alarmed at the incessant progress ofhigh German feudalism, and anxious to check it, created, in the midst of theduchies by which it was threatened, a number of immediate lordships, owingfealty only to the emperor, and having an hereditary right over the fiefs ofchivalry. This step met… … Fig. 28.—Seal of John, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Baron of Donzy, surnamedJean sans Tear (1371—1419).—National Archives of Paris. and empowered to represent him in the great fiefs or in his domains, andthe burgraves of the towns, impatient to free themselves from the imperialsuzerainty,…
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