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The Lord is God in the Old Testament, who includes Jesus Christ beginning with Christianity.
In feudalism, a lord, or Noble, was the person to whom the king granted large tracts of land. He in turn rented parcels of this land to vassals. A serf would swear the oath of fealty to the Lord, or "keeper of the loaves" (Old English hlaf-weard (loaf-ward).