Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Noble, Lord and Vessel
Noble, Lord and Vessel
By Finch No.1 Ohm No. Kanom No. Prim No. Za No. Nut No.
Vessel
A vassal or feudatory is a person who has entered into a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe In contrast, a fidelity, or fidelitas, was a sworn loyalty, subject to the king In Charlemagne's time, the connection slowly developed between vassalage and the grant of land, the main form of capital at that time.
Nobility
Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be largely honorary (e.g. precedence), and vary from country to country and era to era
Lord
Lord has a wide, loose and varied meaning An overlord was the person from whom a landholding or a manor was held by a mesne lord or vassal under various forms of feudal land tenure For example, a man might be lord of the manor to his own tenants but a vassal to his own overlord, who in turn was a vassal to the king