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