feudatary (fudatari)

and n. [F. feud a taire Sp. Pg. İt. feud at a rio, a. and n., feudatory (fu'da-to-ri), a. and n. [The more exact form (for the n.) is feudatary, He hath claimed the kingdom of England, as feudatory to the see apostolic. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 104. II. n.; pl. feudatories (-riz). 1. A tenant or va al holding his lands of a superior on condition of military or feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. See feudal2 . The Norman Conquest introduced the feudal system, with its nece ary appendages, a hereditary monarchy and nobility; the former in the line of the chief, who led the invading army, and the latter in that of his distinguished followers. They became his feudatories . The country-both land and people (the latter as serfs)was divided between them. Calhoun, Works, I. 99. The great feudatory at Rouen seemed, in a way in which no other feudatory seemed, to shut up his over-lord in a kind of prison. E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, II. 132. 2. A fief. A service paid by the King of Spaine for the king domes of Naples and Sicily, pretended feudatorys to the Pope. Evelyn, Diary, Nov. 22, 1644. It must not be supposed that in the partition of France IMG:content-1258.png:[blocks in formation] nature of the system, was its head, from whom all authority theoretically descended. Stillé, Stud. Med. Hist., p. 142, feudbotet (fūd'bot), n. [A mod. form, repr. AS. fæhth -bot, feu de joie (fè dé zhwo). [F., a bonfire, lit. fire of joy: feu, fire, About three o'clock the discharge of fifty pieces of cannon was answered by a feu de joie from all the regiments yeomanry drawn up for the tenure of land under and by de dependence on a superior. The grantor or lord was entitled to the homage or fealty of the grantee or va al. The estate was so called in contradistinction to allodium, which is an estate subject to no superior but the general law of the land. Palgrave considers that the origin of feudal tenure may be traced to the grants made by the Romans to the barbarian Laeti occupying the Limit an ean or Ripuarian territories, upon the condition of performing military service. These dotations or feuds descended only to the male heir of the donee, and could not be alienated to a non-military tenant. feud alidad = Pg. feud alidade = It. feudal ità; as feudal2 + -ity.] The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form of constitution. It had doubtle a powerful tendency to cherish the influence of feudality and clanship. Hallam. At the end of the last century, when revolutionary effervescence was beginning to ferment, the people of Arles swept all its feudality away, defacing the very arms upon the town gate, and trampling the palace towers to dust. J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 327. The e ential and fundamental principle of a territorial feud was, that it was land held by a limited or conditional estate - the property being in the lord, the usufruct in the tenant. W. K. Sullivan, Introd. to O'Curry's Anc. Irish, p. cexxii.