COMMISE

Commise: translation

The penalty - the confiscation of his fiefs - imposed upon a "Vassal for a serious breach of expected conduct. One great instance was that imposed by King Philip VI of France upon Edward III for giving aid to Robert of Artois, then enemy of the king of France. Philip proceeded to confiscate both Aquitaine and Gascony, which Edward held of Philip. This was the formal occasion of the beginning of the "Hundred Years' War. [< Lat. commissa = fine, penalty]