enfeoffed

Belonging to a vassal under a feudal system, typically in exchange for fealty.

In early Zhou times, the charater guo, which in modern Chinese means "state," "nation," or "country," not only denoted an enfeoffed territory but also meant the walled city where the seat of the head of the fief resided.seat of the head of the fief resided.

He, too, was a knight, possessing quit-rents, a mill, and some woodland; his brothers held their share of an enfeoffed inheritance from him, according to the system of inheritance which was practised among the nobility; his wife was 'Dame Mary, the steward's lady'.

Having legal possession of a fiefdom in exchange for fealty

Here, the disrespect shown the Son of Heaven by one or more enfeoffed lords is evident.

By the time of the Nibelungenlied the word was used to denote a wide variety of usually ecclesiastic or royal administrators, from the lowest, unfree ministerial to an enfeoffed judge.