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Battle of Old Sarum
Fights at the Battle of Old Sarum
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Old Sarum in England. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Fights at the Battle of Old Sarum
The Salisbury gathering emphasizes that major landholders owe allegiance to William regardless of intermediate feudal relationships.
On Lammas Day William I summons 170 of his tenants-in-chief and other landowning men of any account to Old Sarum, where they all swore allegiance in person to him and to be faithful against all other men, this establishes feudalism
William summons leading landholders to Old Sarum, where they swear loyalty directly to him.
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