valuableare

Updated: May 16, 2025

So valuableare these followers that, in the eighth and ninth centuries, the power of the great is largely measured by the number of vassi whom they can put into the field. Various considerations suggested to Frankish rulers and nobles the expediency of endowing these followers with land, and of granting land to no tenant unless he would take the vassal's oath.

H. W. C. (Henry William Carless) Davis - Medieval Europe