fealty

Converse of object

• swear: More surprisingly, he managed to persuade the Norman nobility to swear fealty to the boy.
• do: His kinsman William Heron, of Ford, did fealty at the same time.
• owe: The Vale army is under the command of the Knight-Protector of the Vale, to whom all the Knights of the Vale owe fealty.
• demand: A messenger arrives demanding fealty to King John of France, to which Edward returns a challenge.
• pay: That doubt should be cast upon the readiness of his tenants to pay fealty to Edward I may indicate that his sympathies were liberal.
• give: Here, beneath the towering 8th century peel tower King Malcolm gave fealty to the English king, William the Conqueror.

Noun used with modifier

pledge: Hussein has shown similar generosity elsewhere in Iraq, lavishing support on Shiite clerics -- as long as they pledge fealty to his rule.