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Heriot

Heriot, from Old English heregeat ("war-gear"), was originally a death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England, which required that at death, a nobleman provided to his king a given set of military equipment, often including horses, swords, shields, spears and helmets. It later developed into a kind of tenurial feudal relief due from villeins. The equivalent…

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FeudalEuropeSerfWillsÆthelmær the Stout
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Old English
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Old EnglishLate Anglo-Saxon EnglandFeudal reliefVilleins
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Heriot

Nodes33
Edges32
Triples80
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
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related to Sources · 36
Heriot → Arms, BAR British, Bishops, British Archaeological Reports, Brooks, Cambridge University Press, Chisholm, Christopher, David, Eadred, Eadwig, Ealdormen, Edmund, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ethelred, Heriots, Hugh, In Blanchard, In Hill, ISBN
related to Further reading · 19
Heriot → Abels, Anglo-Saxon England, Blackwell, Community, Family, In Gender, King, Legitimation, London, Lord, Lordship, Michael Lapidge, Military Obligation, Oxford, Pauline, Power, Richard, Stafford, The Blackwell Encyclopedia
related to history · 17
Heriot → An, By, Cnut's, Danelaw, Europe, II Cnut, In England, It, Jacques, Large, Serfs, Stout, The, Vitry, Wessex, West-Saxon, When
related to External links · 5
Heriot → Canute, English, King, On Heriots, Reliefs
see also · 2
Heriot → Anglo-Saxon, Copyhold
is a · 1
Heriot → subject of a clause in Cnut's secular law-code

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death england lord anglo-saxon feudal upon ed english king later best horse century heriots many oxford old required nobleman military

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Heriotis asubject of a clause in Cnut's secular law-code0.90text
Heriotrelated to External linksCanute0.60section
Heriotrelated to External linksKing0.60section
Heriotrelated to External linksEnglish0.60section
Heriotrelated to External linksOn Heriots0.60section
Heriotrelated to External linksReliefs0.60section
Heriotrelated to Further readingAbels0.60section
Heriotrelated to Further readingRichard0.60section
Heriotrelated to Further readingLordship0.60section
Heriotrelated to Further readingMilitary Obligation0.60section
Heriotrelated to Further readingAnglo-Saxon England0.60section
Heriotrelated to Further readingLondon0.60section

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