What is an example of a vassal?

Is a knight the same as a vassal?

Answer: Knights and Vassals
As higher ranking people, knights often presided over an entire manor, while vassals presided only over the land needed to support their families. In both cases, the knights and vassals had command over the serfs that worked the land.

Is it possible to be a lord and a vassal?

Answer: Answer and Explanation: In a sense, yes, a lord could be a vassal in the feudal system, because most lords owed homage, taxes, or military service to a king, emperor, or pope, in the same sense that their own vassals (peasants) owed homage, taxes, and military service to themselves.

Can a vassal be a lord at the same time?

Answer: A person could be both lord and vassal. Some knights with large fiefs gave small pieces of land to other knights; this created many levels of obligations.

How does a vassal also become a lord?

Answer: Vassals also acquired the right to alienate their fiefs, with the proviso, first, of the lord's consent and, later, on payment of a certain tax. Similarly, they obtained the right to subinfeudate—that is, to become lords themselves by granting parts of their fiefs to vassals of their own.

How did a vassal show loyalty to a lord?

Answer: One part of the oath of fealty included swearing to always remain faithful to the lord. The oath of fealty usually took place after the act of homage, when, by the symbolic act of kneeling before the lord and placing his hands between the hands of the lord, the vassal became the "man" of the lord.