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5 | independently minded, individualistic people |
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3 +1 | plebeian lordships (medieval benefactoria or behetría) |
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plebeian lordships (medieval benefactoria or behetría) Explanation: plebeian lordships medieval benefactoria (or behetría) do Lat. benefactoria < benefacere » povoação que tinha o direito de eleger os seus administradores; essa povoação. http://www.priberam.pt The system there was called benefactoria (in Castilian, behetría) and at first required merely that collective peasant groups pay a sort of rent on their lands and pastures to support the military aristocracy http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/payne3.htm The system of benefactoria, by which local peasant groups recognized the overlordship of noble families and paid them shares of produce or rent, was extended considerably during the twelfth century. http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/payne4.htm http://libro.uca.edu/monastic/monastic1.htm Behetrias, called plebeian lordships, were districts and townships of peasants who were bound to have a lord, and to make him payments in money or in kind http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Spain Behetria behetria. (Spanish.) Lands in districts and manors in which the inhabitants could select their own lords. -Bouvier's Law. Dict. Behoof www.citizenlaw.com/pdf/b.pdf http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behetría http://celtiberia.net/verrespuesta.asp?idp=3871 |
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