"vince" wrote in message
m...

. The feudal lord (the king)
granted land in return for support. The king had very little
influence over the private activities of these feudal lords.

The Feudal system persisted throughout the Plantagenet era.

Well on another news group I'd ask you to define feudal. )

However here I merely ask you to tell me in what way any English king was
burdened by 'overmighty subjects' for any long period of time after about
1300. A couple of them were, but they tended to get murdered and replaced
by someone who wasn't in reasonably short order.

The only obvious exception I can think of is Henry VI and he isn't a really
good example as the kingdom was far too riven by chaos and war to give over
too much time to repress Ireland.

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