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51Knight-service — was the dominant and distinctive tenure of land as a fief associated with a knight under the English feudal system.Early historyIt is associated in its origin with that development in warfare which made the mailed horseman, armed with lance and… …
52Tony Bland — Anthony David ( Tony ) Bland (21 September1970 3 March 1993) was a supporter of Liverpool football club injured in the Hillsborough disaster. He suffered severe brain damage that left him in a persistent vegetative state whereby the hospital,… …
53Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester — Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Worcester (1104 ndash; 9 April 1166, Preaux), was the son of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois, and the twin brother of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of… …
54Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield of Butterwick — (22 November, 1521 ndash; 19 July, 1549) was an English nobleman, the son of Sir Robert Sheffield and his second wife Jane Stanley. Through his mother, he was a second cousin of the reigning English monarch, King Henry VIII. Following his father… …
55Austria — Austrian, adj., n. /aw stree euh/, n. a republic in central Europe. 8,054,078; 32,381 sq. mi. (83,865 sq. km). Cap.: Vienna. German, Österreich. * * * Austria Introduction Austria Background: Once the center of power for the large Austro… …
56Feudalism — • The source of feudalism rises from an intermingling of barbarian usage and Roman law Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Feudalism Feudalism …
57Churches of Kraków — The nave of Corpus Christi Basilica in Kraków district of Kazimierz The metropolitan city of Kraków, former capital of Poland, is known as the city of churches. The abundance of landmark, historic Roman Catholic churches along with the plenitude… …
58custody — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. care, [safe]keeping, charge, protection; imprisonment, bondage. See safety, restraint, retention. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Protection] Syn. care, guardianship, supervision, keeping, safekeeping, charge …
59guardian — A person lawfully invested with the power, and charged with the duty, of taking care of the person and managing the property and rights of another person, who, for defect of age, understanding, or self control, is considered incapable of… …
60guardian — A person lawfully invested with the power, and charged with the duty, of taking care of the person and managing the property and rights of another person, who, for defect of age, understanding, or self control, is considered incapable of… …
