Meanings
- historicalnot comparableWithout a fief.
Not all knights held fiefs, and it was not unusual for knights to buy themselves freedom from the obligations of the fief, or even to abscond with the arms provided by their lord, becoming a part of the large number of unenfeoffed, wandering knights available for hire […]
2001, Michael S. Drake, Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence, →ISBN, page 97Synonyms: unfeoffed
- historicalnot comparableNot given out as a fief.
Following ‘great murmur and clamour’ because of the non-payment of the expenses of the Household and the abuses of purveyance, it was further provided that the income from the unenfeoffed portions of the Duchy of Lancaster […] should be diverted for the next five years […]
1981, J. S. Roskell, Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England, volume 2, →ISBN, page 143
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWithout a fief.
Origin
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