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What (who) is knight service - definition

FORM OF FEUDAL LAND TENURE
Knight service; Knight-Service; Knight's service; Knight tenure

knight service         
¦ noun (in the Middle Ages) the tenure of land by a knight on condition of performing military service.
Knight service         
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Knight's service.
II. Knight service ·- A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. ·see Chivalry, ·noun, 4.
Knight-service         
Knight-service was a form of feudal land tenure under which a knight held a fief or estate of land termed a knight's fee (fee being synonymous with fief) from an overlord conditional on him as tenant performing military service for his overlord.

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Knight-service

Knight-service was a form of feudal land tenure under which a knight held a fief or estate of land termed a knight's fee (fee being synonymous with fief) from an overlord conditional on him as tenant performing military service for his overlord.