Note 25 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)
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The question must have been complicated by the growth of the king's dominions. Did the feudatories owe service to the king, as their lord, in whatever war he was engaged? Or were they only bound to follow him as King of England? Or were they, as holding a conquestu, only bound to serve in the dominions of the Conqueror who enfeoffed them, i.e. in England and Normandy?25