It was most likely the name of a local feudal landlord.

His father was a ruthless feudal landlord, who during his lifetime had done several heinous crimes.

On the one hand, this meant that the grip of the old feudal landlords was stronger here than elsewhere: cases of ritual widow-burning, or suttee, were not unknown.

The novel tells the story of the cruelty meted out by feudal landlords to impoverished farm labourers.

The feudal lord was told to restore the earlier tax arrangements.

Other estates have left the role of feudal lord and benefactor behind in the name of pure commercialism.

A feudal lord could keep watch over his domain from the top of his tower.

Most soldiers were much more loyal to their feudal lord than to their nations, and insubordination within armies was common.

Overall sovereignty remained with the feudal lord, who could require certain services from his vassals under common law.

Some experts claim that this was the beginning of capitalism, as the old feudal order broke down and money became widely used instead of goods and services.

Their thoughts were criticisms for the dominant feudal order.

The break away from the previous feudal order required such an assembly; and, seemingly miraculously, it actually happened.

Weak monarch could not employ his main function keep his villains in humility and safe feudal order in country.

It was reactionary in nature and sought to preserve the feudal order.

That means a move away from their 'feudal relationship' with service users.

Once the commendation ceremony was complete, the lord and vassal were in a feudal relationship with agreed obligations to one another.

During the feudal period, samurai were warriors that fought for a lord in a feudal relationship.

The whole contract including the oath of fealty was part of a formal commendation ceremony that created the feudal relationship.

Society changed into an almost feudal relationship between landowning elites and bonded laborers.

For 250 years the shoguns ruled a feudal state from which virtually all foreign influence - religious, technological and artistic - was banned on pain of death.

Will it now become a lawless, feudal state once more?

Each feudal state was independent and had its own tax and legal systems along with unique currency.

This feudal state became a union of relatively independent rulers who developed their own territories.

The various feudal states were in a state of almost continual war.