WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vassal-A free man who held land (fief) from a lord to whom he paid homage and swore fealty. He owed various services and obligations, primarily military.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -A fief is a small section of a larger piece of land called a manor. Fiefs were granted to servants or vassals of a lord for their important contributions to society.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the feudal system (in Europe and elsewhere), the nobility were generally those who held a fief, often land or office, under vassalage, i.e., in exchange for allegiance and various, mainly military, services to a suzerain, who might be a higher-ranking nobleman or a monarch.