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The 14 pages that link to Investiture, each with the reason it gives.

• FeudalismRelated: Investiture made a grant of tenure publicly recognizable.

• Bay'ahRelated: Bay'ah can function as public recognition of a leader's accession.

• French Fourth RepublicRelated: Repeated confidence votes exposed cabinets to fragile and shifting majorities.

• Tributary systemRelated: Superior rulers could confirm subordinate rulers’ legitimacy by granting titles or seals.

• Padma BhushanRelated: Padma Bhushan recipients receive their awards at a presidential investiture ceremony.

• Knight BachelorRelated: The sovereign or a representative formally confers the knighthood at an investiture.

• KnighthoodRelated: Knighthood is publicly conferred through an investiture ceremony.

• SimonyRelated: Secular rulers’ control over appointments created opportunities to exchange offices for political or financial gain.

• Lay investitureNarrower topic: Lay investiture was a contested form of this broader practice.

• Tributary system of ChinaRelated: Chinese courts could confirm a neighboring ruler’s status through titles and seals.

• Prince-bishopRelated: Conflicts over appointing bishops shaped who could control their lands.

• Vassal stateRelated: A ruler’s appointment or recognition could serve as a superior power’s means of enforcing allegiance.

• René CotyRelated: Fourth Republic governments required parliamentary investiture, limiting presidential control over their survival.

• Peter DamianRelated: Damian argued over who could appoint bishops, a dispute later bound up with investiture.