A vavasour, (also vavasor, Old French vavassor, vavassour, French vavasseur, LL. vavassor, probably from vassus vassorum "vassal of the vassals") 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.
Also written vavasour, vavassor, valvasor, etc.
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Vavasours subdivide again to vassals, exchanging land and cattle, human or otherwise, against fealty. - Motley.
Vavasour Marlborough Rose 2006 smelt inviting and appealing with fresh strawberry and cream scents - and the crisp strawberry and juicy stonefruit flavours filled the expectation that the nose promised.
The Vavasour was still perfect, so I put it aside to drink the contents later, which we did on Friday night.
Vavasour Marlborough Rose 2006 is packaged in a clear bottle to show off the beautiful colour that was achieved by the crushed grapes having 12 hours contact with the skins.
Vavasour may have been influenced by the example of Sir Henry Knyvett who five years earlier had fought a duel which nearly cost him his life, but his proposed meeting with Oxford at Newington evidently did not come off.
Coming as he did from a Catholic family, Vavasour must have had many ties with members of that Church; there was, for example, his namesake who was imprisoned about 1583 in the Gatehouse and who was later in trouble as a servant of Sir Thomas Tresham.
Vavasour's own career, and his connexion with the strongly protestant Knyvetts, make it unlikely that he retained his family's religious allegiance, and he died believing in the merits of Christ's Passion.
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