- 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...
- Schleswig, a
Danish fief, and
Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, a Saxe-Lauenburgian
subfief within the Holy
Roman Empire.
Christian inherited Holstein-Rendsburg and...
- was
elected Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, then
still a Saxe-Lauenburgian
subfief within the Holy
Roman Empire. In 1474 Lauenburg's
liege lord, the German...
-
Pomerania had
become a fief of Brandenburg, thus an only
mediate (indirect)
subfief of the Empire, with
Brandenburg itself being an
immediate imperial fief...
-
referred to in
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...
-
Langerak m.2
Katharina von
Gemen (–1493)
Philips van
Polanen (–1375) 4th lord
subfief for John II 1345-1378 m.
Elisabeth van der
Maele Elisabeth van Polanen...
-
Danish fief, but also the
County of Holstein-Rendsburg, a Saxe-Lauenburgian
subfief within the Holy
Roman Empire,
following the
death of his
maternal uncle...
- ecclesiastical/monastic). The best-known of
these were: Afterlehen: A
subfief whereby the v****al
awarded a part of his fief to a
third party (subinfeudation)...
- prince-bishopric. The
episcopal territory of
secular reign remained a
subfief of
ducal Pomerania, and did not
become an
immediately imperial fief. The...
- east of the Roth. In the High and Late
Middle Ages,
parts of it went as
subfiefs or
fiefdoms to the
local lower nobility and to the
citizens of Ulm. In...
