Heriot
Death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the death duty. For other uses, see Heriot (disambiguation).
Heriot, from Old English heregeat ("war-gear"), was originally a death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England, which required that at death, a nobleman provided to his king a given set of military equipment, often including horses, swords, shields, spears and helmets. It later developed into a kind of tenurial feudal relief due from villeins. The equivalent term in French was droit du meilleur catel.