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Detailed explanation-1: -A simple definition of feudalism is the system where a landowner (the lord) gave a fief (a piece of land) in return for a payment or promise of service from the person who received it (the vassal).

Detailed explanation-2: -vassal, in feudal society, one invested with a fief in return for services to an overlord. Some vassals did not have fiefs and lived at their lord’s court as his household knights. Certain vassals who held their fiefs directly from the crown were tenants in chief and formed the most important feudal group, the barons.

Detailed explanation-3: -Feudal society is a military hierarchy in which a ruler or lord offers mounted fighters a fief (medieval beneficium), a unit of land to control in exchange for a military service. The individual who accepted this land became a vassal, and the man who granted the land become known as his liege or his lord.