There had been a storm, though, I think, and the ship had run aground on an island ruled by some sort of nasty feudal overlord. |
During the feudal period between the ninth and twelfth centuries AD, the Flemish and Walloon cultures continued developing along separate lines. |
Many of the exiled agas eventually found their ways back from Syria and took up their feudal roles, but they did not reclaim this village. |
The pastoralist class disperse the great mass of peasants who traditionally worked the land under the thumb of feudal landlords. |
Greedy and acquisitive, he set his sights on this land in order to carve out a feudal domain for himself. |
The feudal system meant that knights had to provide the king with soldiers when the king demanded them. |