WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The king gave his lands and manors (or fiefs – which is where the word feudal comes from) to important lords or tenants–in-chief. In return for the fiefs, the lords or nobles became the king’s vassals and swore an oath of loyalty (fealty) and paid homage to him.

Detailed explanation-2: -The large areas of land, called as fiefs, were ruled by the Barons and high rank nobles.

Detailed explanation-3: -Barons and Nobles-The Barons and high ranking nobles ruled large areas of land called fiefs. They reported directly to the king and were very powerful.

Detailed explanation-4: -In medieval and early modern Europe, a tenant-in-chief (or vassal-in-chief) was a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly from the king or territorial prince to whom he did homage, as opposed to holding them from another nobleman or senior member of the clergy.