lieges

A liege lord was a free lord; in course of time his subjects were called lieges, no doubt from confusion with Lat.

A Sarrasin pirate even now lords it in Guernsey, and kills very many of thy lieges.

So he rode alone, three hundred yards from his lieges, reasoning out how he could preserve his honour and yet yield.

It was not only by calling at Yuste that the noble lieges of the emperor testified their homage.

I have been too long slighted and set at naught by my lieges and vassals, and I would know what of it?