Definitions for Vavasour
vava·sour

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1. vavasournoun

   a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly

2. Etymology: From vavasour, from vavassor, perhaps from vassus.

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1. Vavasour

   A vavasour (also vavasor; Old French vavassor, vavassour; Modern French vavasseur; Late Latin vavassor), is a term in feudal law. A vavasour was the vassal or tenant of a baron, one who held his tenancy under a baron, and who also had tenants under him.

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1. Vavasour

   A vavasour, is a term in Feudal law. A vavasour was the vassal or tenant of a baron, one who held their tenancy under a baron, and who also had tenants under him. Alternative spellings include: vavasour, valvasor, vasseur, vasvassor, oavassor, and others. In its most general sense the word thus indicated a mediate vassal, i.e. one holding a fief under a vassal. The word was, however, applied at various times to the most diverse ranks in the feudal hierarchy, being used practically as the synonym of vassal. Thus tenants-in-chief of the crown are described by the Emperor Conrad II as valvassores majores, as distinguished from mediate tenants, valvassores minores. Gradually the term without qualification was found convenient for describing sub-vassals, tenants-in-chief being called capitanei or barones; Its implication, however, still varied in different places and times. Bracton ranks the magnates seu valvassores between barons and knights; for him they are "men of great dignity," and in this order they are found in a charter of Henry II of England. But in the regestum of Philip II Augustus we find that five vavassors are reckoned as the equivalent of one knight. Finally, Du Cange quotes two charters, one of 1187, another of 1349, in which vavassors are clearly distinguished from nobles.

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1. Vavasour

   vav′a-sōōr, n. in feudal times, one who held his lands not directly of the crown but of one of the higher nobility.—n. Vav′asōry, the tenure or lands of a vavasour. [O. Fr.,—Low L. vassus vassorum, vassal of vassals—vassus, vassal.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Vavasour in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Vavasour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vavasour
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavasour
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Vavasour
4. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Vavasour