A territorial lord (German: Landesherr) was a ruler in the period beginning with the Early Middle Ages who, stemming from his status as being immediate...

Powerful feudal territorial lord in pre-modern Japan...

choice to become its territorial lord. Because of the size of his domain, he is accepted into the Abh aristocracy as a great lord and conferred with the...

A lord paramount is a term of art in feudal law describing an overlord who holds his own fief from no superior lord. It thus describes a person who holds...

A mesne lord (/miːn/) was a lord in the feudal system who had vassals who held land from him, but who was himself the vassal of a higher lord. Owing to...

During homage, the lord and vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agreed to protect...

Lord of the manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The titles date to the English...

direct authority of the emperor or king, or of a territorial imperial state—a prince-bishop or territorial lord. The responsibilities were administrative, military...

to imply the rank of Esquire. Lairds with a territorial designation recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon would not use the post nominal letters of...

before) as a "medieval term for 'tenant slightly below a baron.'" Feu Mesne lord  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication...