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.