History A-Level
Tenants-in-chief
What Tenants-in-chief means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Tenants-in-chief
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Those who held land directly from the king in return for knight service and who in turn granted land to knights.
Topics that use Tenants-in-chief
- Paper 2, Option 2A.1: Anglo-Saxon England and the Anglo-Norman Kingdom, c1053–1106 - 2 The Norman conquest of England and extension of control in Wales and Scotland, 1066–93 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Anglo-Scottish relations
- Castles and control
- Consolidation of Norman rule
- Feudalism and land tenure
- Foreign intervention and diplomacy
- Methods of control and suppression
- Norman expansion and frontier control
- Resistance and rebellion
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