Base your answer to question 47 on the passage
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
… I, John of Toul, make known that I am the liege
man of the lady Beatrice, countess of Troyes, and
of her son, Theobald, count of Champagne,
against every creature, living or dead, saving my
allegiance to lord Enjorand of Coucy, lord John of
Arcis, and the count of Grandpré. If it should
happen that the count of Grandpré should be at
war with the countess and count of Champagne
on his own quarrel, I will aid the count of
Grandpré in my own person, and will send to the
count and the countess of Champagne the knights
whose service I owe to them for the fief which I
hold of them. But if the count of Grandpré shall
make war on the countess and the count of
Champagne on behalf of his friends and not in his
own quarrel, I will aid in my own person the
countess and count of Champagne, and will send
one knight to the count of Grandpré for the
service which I owe him for the fief which I hold
of him, but I will not go myself into the territory
of the count of Grandpré to make war on him.…
In which period of western European history was
the relationship described in this passage most
common?
(1) Neolithic (3) Medieval
(2) Classical (4) Napoleonic