5 sentences with 'pledges'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pledges and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, clan loyalty became less important over the centuries than the rights, privileges and pledges of loyalty offered and maintained by the different social categories: peasants, citizens, warriors and church members. »
• « A lord accepted pledges of loyalty from other freemen called his vassals; in return for their support in war he offered them protection and grants of land called fiefdoms. »
• « Pledges of loyalty between lords and vassals served as the only guarantee of stability, and these pledges were violated countless times throughout the period. »
• « The kingdoms of Europe up to this point were hardly unified. In many cases, kings were simply the most powerful nobles, men who extracted pledges of loyalty from their subjects but whose royal authority was limited to their personal lands. »
• « This confusion extended very much to the kings themselves. The English royal line (the Plantagenets) often enjoyed the pledges of allegiance of numerous "French" nobles, and "English" kings often considered themselves to be as French as they were English. »