beetria

English translation: plebeian lordships (medieval benefactoria or behetría)

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Portuguese term or phrase:beetria
English translation:plebeian lordships (medieval benefactoria or behetría)
Entered by: bezowski

11:36 Aug 22, 2006
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: beetria
Portuguese definition: na alta Idade Média, povoação rural que tinha o direito de escolher livremente os senhores que mais lhe conviessem para sua defesa e bem-estar.
Elizabete Freitas
Portugal
Local time: 06:30
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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bezowski
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Maria Luisa Duarte
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independently minded, individualistic people


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Maria Luisa Duarte
Spain
Local time: 07:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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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


bezowski
Poland
Local time: 06:30
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 4

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