Original sentence: Heriot was the right of a lord in feudal Europe to seize a serf's best horse and or clothing upon his death.for the town, see Heriot, Scotland
Edited sentence: " In Ethelred the Unready, ed." In Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed."Arms, Status and Warfare in Late-Saxon England."King and kin, Lord and Community.Abels, Richard.According to the historian Nicholas Brooks, heriot arose out of the obligation of a retainer to return, on the occasion of his death, a part of the weaponry and armour with which his lord had invested him.Brooks, Nicholas.David Hill.For other uses, see Heriot (disambiguation).For the town, see Heriot, Scotland.Heriot, from Old English heregeat ("war-gear"), was originally a death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England, which required that at death, a nobleman provided to his king a given set of military equipment, often including horses, swords, shields, spears and helmets.It later developed into a kind of tenurial relief due from villeins.It was the right of a lord in feudal Europe to seize a serf's best horse and or clothing upon his death.London, 1988.Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England.Michael Lapidge et al.Oxford, 1978.Oxford: Blackwell: 1999.Payments of heriot are sometimes mentioned in the wills of West-Saxon nobles since the mid-tenth century, such as Æthelmær,.Stafford, Pauline.The form of this duty depended on the rank of the nobleman (earl, king's thegn, median thegn) and on his region (Danelaw, Wessex).The regulation of levels of heriot is the subject of a clause in Cnut's secular law-code (II Cnut § 71), drawn up between 1020 and 1023