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He had to hold court, dispense justice, reward faithful vassals, punish or take the field against enemies, and settle claims between contesting parties.
Technically, this term refers to the process of reducing individuals to the status of vassals.
The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals.
He dispensed justice in the name of the chapter, was responsible for the surveillance of the precinct, represented the chapter and received homage from vassals.
The feudal king was primus inter pares among his vassals, yet he was always much more.
The need for money made the lord increasingly concerned to turn the fiefs of his vassals to his own financial advantage when he could.
The capability of the vassals to fight and rebel provides an incentive for rulers to respect their rights.
Obviously, as we have seen in other monasteries, the abbot could thus create his own separate endowment with the surplus and even grant property in benefice to ministerials or vassals.
Then the rest of the year was covered, a month at a time, by each of seven vassals, in return for the fiefs they held of the count.
On the other hand, with the expansion of feudal ties, there was a growing expectation that any lord ought to resolve the disputes among his own vassals.
The enfeoffed knight, belonging to several bands of vassals, protected by each of his patrons against all the others, was virtually free of the strictest of military and judicial obligations.
Because of this principle of local distribution, the dominion of the crown vassals could not consolidate themselves into great sovereign courts as they could on the continent.
Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative, and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated.
In the 1630s, the kabuki-mono subculture spread among shogunal vassals and chonin.
His vassals were therefore granted considerable autonomy over their own land and people, enjoyed more independence, and conducted their household succession as best benefited their ie.
