History A-Level
Feudal Obligations
What Feudal Obligations means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Feudal Obligations
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The military obligations of tenants-in-chief, which Henry II assessed and controlled through the 1166 Cartae Baronum to reassert feudal control.
Topics that use Feudal Obligations
- 2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216 – The Restoration of Royal Authority, 1154–1166 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Angevin Empire
- Baronial power
- Centralisation of power
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Financial administration
- Legal Reform
- Lordship of Ireland
- Royal authority
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