Complex sentence: Frankalmoin (from Norman French "fraunch aumoyne" "free alms") was one of the feudal duties and hence land tenure forms in feudal England by which an ecclesiastical body held land, in return for saying prayers and masses for the soul of the granter.
Split into simpler sentences: Frankalmoin (from Norman French "fraunch aumoyne" "free alms") was one of the feudal duties and hence land tenure forms in feudal England. By it an ecclesiastical body held land in return for saying prayers and masses for the soul of the granter.