Editing Tenant-in-chief (section)

==Terminology==
The [[Latin]] term was ''tenens in [[capite]]''.{{sfn|Corèdon|Williams|2007|p=161}}{{efn|{{linktext|tenens}} (singular), {{linktext|tenentes}} (plural)}}

Other names for tenant-in-chief were "[[captal]]" or [[baron]], although the latter term evolved in meaning. For example, the term "baron" was used in the ''[[Cartae Baronum]]'' of 1166, a return of all tenants-in-chief in England. At that time the term was understood to mean the "king's barons", or "king's men", because baron could still have a broader meaning. Originally, for example in [[Domesday Book]] (1086), there was a small number of powerful English tenants-in-chief under the Norman king who were all magnates directly associated with the king.

Later, as laid-out by I. J. Sanders, the old tenancies-in-chief of England from the time of the Norman king, [[King Henry I of England]], came to have a legally distinct form of feudal land holding, the so-called tenure ''per baroniam''. The term "baron" thus came to be used mainly for these "[[English feudal barony|feudal barons]]", which comprised a group that over-lapped with the tenancies-in-chief, but was not identical.{{sfn|Bloch|1961|p=333}}