Explore: Feudal Courts

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval

used "prescriptive feudal grants" to impose perpetual obligations - called real burdens - on land, which were recognised by courts and functioned similarly

of the land to the king while providing military service to his causes, feudal society was structured around hierarchical relationships involving land

describing the court functionary—bailiff—came to be used for reeves associated with lower level courts, and with the equivalent role in the feudal courts of landlords

In the medieval kingdom of England, a feudal barony or barony by tenure, which could also be called a fief or honour held per baroniam was a specific type

A feudal baron is a vassal holding a heritable fief called a barony, comprising a specific portion of land, granted by an overlord in return for allegiance

The Haute Cour (English: High Court) was the feudal council of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was sometimes also called the curia generalis, the curia regis

special lieutenants to substitute them whenever they were absent or sick. Feudal courts heard minor cases. The reform also brought the Sovereign Council of

The Kingdom of France was a decentralised, feudal monarchy during in the Middle Ages. In Brittany, Normandy, Lorraine, Provence, East Burgundy and Catalonia

Albrecht served as a hetman, a court marshal of Anna of Schweidnitz, and an assessor of the provincial and royal feudal court. In 1347, when Rožmitál castle