Feudal Land Tenure

Feudal Land Tenure is a system of mutual obligations under which a royal or noble personage granted a fiefdom — some degree of interest in the use or revenues of a given parcel of land — in exchange for a claim on services such as military service or simply maintenance of the land in which the lord continued to have an interest. This pattern is obtained from the level of high nobility as vassals of a monarch down to lesser nobility whose only vassals were their serfs.