vassal
noun
(in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
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Bitterly and proudly she bade fair Kriemhild stand; "No vassalless precedeth the lady of the land."
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown