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31Gentry — generally refers to people of high social class, especially in the past. The term derives from the Latin gens , meaning a clan or extended family. It has often referred to the class of people who owned land, but its precise meaning has varied… …
32Vassal — For other uses, see Vassal (disambiguation). English Feudalism …
33France in the Middle Ages — Kingdom of France Royaume de France ←   …
34Hamlet (place) — A hamlet is (usually mdash;see below) a rural community that is, a small settlement which is too small to be considered a village. The name comes from the diminutive of a Germanic word for an enclosed piece of land or pasture. United Kingdom In… …
35Glebe — In the Roman Catholic and Anglican church traditions, a glebe was an area of land belonging to a benefice. This was property (in addition to the parsonage house and grounds) which vested in the incumbent by right of his incumbency. Glebe included …
36Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai — Philippe Antoine, comte Merlin, or Merlin of Douai in short (October 30, 1754 ndash; December 26, 1838), was a French politician and lawyer. His son, Antoine François Eugène Merlin (1778 1854), was a well known general in the French army, and… …
37List of medieval land terms — The feudal system, in which the land was owned by a monarch, who in exchange for homage and military service granted its use to tenants in chief, who in their turn granted its use to sub tenants in return for further services, gave rise to… …
38Manor house — This article is about a type of historical building. For other uses, see Manor house (disambiguation). Ightham Mote, a 14th century moated manor house in Kent, England …
39Land tenure — is the name given, particularly in common law systems, to the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual, who is said to hold the land (the French verb tenir means to hold ; tenant is the present participle of tenir ). The sovereign… …
40Italy in the Middle Ages — History of Italy This article is part of a series Ancient history …
