Sark Island in the Channel Islands is/was considered the last feudatory in Western Europe. The hereditary feudal lord, the
Seigneur of Sark (or Dame of Sark if a woman), holds his position in the traditional feudal custom from the Duke of Normandy, Elizabeth II. Until 2008 the Seigneur of Sark held constitutional authority in Sark law, and remains influential today, and sits in the Chief Pleas, or parliament. The Chief Pleas is lead by a Seneschal, formerly appointed by the Seigneur.
Read up more on Sark here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sark
Also
http://www.gov.sark.gg/index.html
and on their government reform
:
http://www.gov.sark.gg/Downloads/Laws_and_Ordinances/Reform_(Sark)_Law_2008_[consolidated_text_as_effective_from_27th_February_2013].pdf
And two pics of the transition from the feudatory to democracy
http://www.gov.sark.gg/from_old_to_new.html
Edited by Drachenfire - 25-Nov-2012 at 03:55