- 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...
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Pomerania had
become a fief of Brandenburg, thus an only
mediate (indirect)
subfief of the Empire, with
Brandenburg itself being an
immediate imperial fief...
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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...
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fiefs carved out of his own holding, to his own followers. The
creation of
subfiefs under a tenant-in-chief or
other fief-holder was
known as subinfeudation...
-
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...
-
enfeoffed Lord
Adolphus of
Schauenburg with the
County of Holstein, as a
Saxon subfief,
becoming Adolphus I,
Count of
Holstein with the Saxon,
later Lower Saxon...
- 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...
