Sip (kinship)

For other uses, see SIP (disambiguation).

A sip is a kinship group of men and women who could claim even a remote blood relationship with a powerful magnate in medieval Europe.[1]

References

  1. Freed, John (1984) 'The Counts of Falkenstein: noble self-consciousness in twelfth-century Germany' by John B. Freed In Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol.74 Part 6
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