liegeman

Example Sentences

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At her coronation at Westminster Abbey the next year, Prince Philip knelt before the sitting queen and pledged to be her “liegeman,” or faithful servant, for life.

From Washington Post

What lord should do less when his liegeman breaks an oath than build a fleet, kill his enemy and change the course of British history?

From The Guardian

The English king’s beasts were leopards in blazon, in ballad and chronicle, and in the mouths of liegeman and enemy.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps you are not aware that I am lord of the manor to you, and that you are my liegeman.

From Project Gutenberg

LV Soon Hagan spied Sir Folker dead on the reeking floor; Ne'er had he felt such anguish throughout the feast before For kinsman lost or liegeman, as then his bosom shook.

From Project Gutenberg