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Definition of Arriere fief

Arriere fief
Arriere Ar*riere", n. [F. arri[`e]re. See Arrear.] ``That which is behind'; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

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- A fief (/fiːf/; Latin: feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights...
- habitants. The lands were arranged in long narrow strips called seigneuries or fiefs along the banks of the St. Lawrence River, its estuaries, and other key...
- "thirty-six governments" corresponded to the provinces on which all the fiefs and arrière-fiefs depended, providing territorial districts for defense and marshaling...
- : 321 : 68  to as late as 1156.: 38  Records suggest that the priory was an arriére-fief of the Benedictine abbey of Mont St. Michel under whose authority it...
- English as a mesne-fief or mesne-tenure, an arriere-fief or subfief, under-tenure or mesnalty. Within the Holy Roman Empire, these mesne fiefs became inheritable...
- in Canada, Guyon was in turn granted a one-thousand-arpent arrière-fief (subordinated-fief) land concession from Giffard. Guyon traveled aboard a convoy...
- arrangement arrangé arrangeable arrangeant arrangeur arrière-ban "arriere-ban" arrière-fief arrière-garde arrière-salle arrimer arrimage arrimeur arrimeuse arroi...
- recognised the county of Clermont-en-Argonne as a fief of the bishop of Verdun and an arrière-fief of the Holy Roman Empire. Its customary law (coutume)...
- deposited with The Templars in Jerusalem to hire additional troops for the arrière ban to defend the Kingdom Of Jerusalem from Saladin. (Henry had sent the...
- granting of a banner implied that Capua was a direct fief of the papacy, in fact it was an arrière-fief. Alfonso was a v****al of his father, who was a v****al...