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Knight-service
Land tenure under the feudal system / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Main article: Feudal land tenure
Knight-service was a form of feudal land tenure under which a knight held a fief or estate of land termed a knight's fee (fee being synonymous with fief) from an overlord conditional on him as a tenant performing military service for his overlord.