Definition of Veldamai. Meaning of Veldamai. Synonyms of Veldamai

- Veldamas (plural: veldamai) was a form of landownership in the early stages of Lithuanian serfdom. The term describes a peasant family with its land and...
- try veldamai, a class of dependent people that eventually became serfs. The code attempted to impose some consistency in the treatment of veldamai. The...
- Lithuanian noble families were granted Polish coats of arms. Most of the veldamai became serfs. Jogaila's privilege in 1432 in essence repeated previous...
- the 14th century when Grand Dukes would gift land and peasants, known as veldamai, to Lithuanian nobles for their military service (cf. benefice). The practice...
- with the help of a boyar "duma", and their fiefs were knyazs, boyars and veldamai, who received landownership for their military or administrative service...
- became veldamai – a class of peasants, which retained ownership of land, but owed taxes and levies imposed by the nobles. Increasingly rights of veldamai were...
- domestic politics and along with voivodes of Trakai and Vilnius distributed veldamai (a class of dependent peasants) to other nobles. His name disappeared from...