suzerainty

Tatar control—part occupation and part suzerainty over impotent, tribute-paying Russian principalities—lasted more than 200 years.

Since then, Laon continued as a sovereign ecclesiastical seigniory, but always under the suzerainty of the French King.

The suzerainty of England, feeble at best, had gradually been limited to a mere fraction of the country.

Mordred had become a chieftain of the Picts, and he possibly resented any claims of suzerainty on the part of Arthur.

Charles brought himself, or at any rate he was to bring himself later, to recognise the suzerainty of the King of England.

Then it wades through all the mire of academic squabble re suzerainty, etc.