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Vavasor   Listen
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Vavasor  n.  (Also written vavasour, vavassor, valvasor, etc)  (Feud. Law) The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron. "A worthy vavasour." "Vavasours subdivide again to vassals, exchanging land and cattle, human or otherwise, against fealty."






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"Vavasor" Quotes from Famous Books



... perceived that the part enacted by Burghley, Hatton, Croft, and other counsellors, and even by the Queen herself, was not a model of ingenuousness towards the absent Leicester and the States-General. The gentlemen sent at various times to and from the Earl and her Majesty's government; Davison, Shirley, Vavasor, Heneage, and the rest—had all expressed themselves in the strongest language concerning the good faith and the friendliness of the Lord-Treasurer and the Vice-Chamberlain, but they were not so well informed ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley



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