Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.
Loyalty or fidelity owed to a feudal lord by his tenant. Originating in the Carolingian capitularies, it is essentially an oath promising service and fidelity (loyalty) to one's lord or king.
faith [Latin, fidelitas], fidelity to the lord
the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
An oral oath of allegiance to a lord, often part of a copyhold agreement.
oath of loyalty sworn by a VASSAL to his LORD after the LORD had accepted the VASSAL's HOMAGE.
The oath by which a vassal swore loyalty to his lord, usually on a religious relic or on the Bible.
A relationship between individuals, marked by an exchange of oaths of service and protection.
The bond between lord and vassal, wherein each swears to uphold the other, the lord to provide for and protect his vassal, and the vassal to perform services-usually military-for his lord.
Fealty is a tenant's or vassal's fidelity, loyalty and allegiance to a lord.
Serment de vassalité Oath by which a vassal swore loyalty to his lord, usually on a Relic of Saints or on The Bible.
An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas or faithfulness, is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another. Typically the oath is made upon a religious object such as a Bible or saint's relic thus binding the oath taker before God.