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* ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' example: The [http://reallifecomics.com/archive/080111.html Aggie and Longhorns] feud.
* L.A. Banks's short story "Spellbound" has the two families practicing voodoo, making things complicated when the newest generations meet at college and fall in love.
* The Pazzi family and the Medici family of Renaissance Florence, Italy. The former is famous for their botched assassination attempt on Lorenzo and Guiliano de' Medici on April 26, 1478 after High Mass on the steps of the Duomo. To be fair to the Pazzi family, [[The Pope]] didn't like the Medicis either. Not many people did, except the people of Florence.▼
** And thus, the inspiration for first arc of ''[[Assassin's Creed]] II''. Only the main character is on the Medici's side.▼
* The War of the Roses, with House York and House Lancaster. It likely inspired the War of the Lions in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', a war of succession between Duke Larg and Duke Goltanna. Their feud all but destroyed the kingdom of Ivalice, and [[Evil Power Vacuum|allowed several other factions to sweep in and take power for themselves]].
* The a German branches of the House of Welfs and the House of Hohenstaufen in the 12th century. Not even marriage between them could end it, though both families where much too large and powerful to actually die out from a mere feud.
* The Japanese have had a bunch of these. Several of which led to country wide civil wars. Most famously the Gempei war between the Taira (Heike) and the Minamoto (Genji) clans.
* The Vikings of the Scandinavian lands were infamous for this. They would always fight each other for even the smallest things. The only thing that would make temporary truces was to invade England or France. It was only when Christianity came to the northern lands, and then the viking chieftains took inspiration of the feudal systems in the mainland and reformed their turfs into united kingdoms, that the feudings ended.
* It was not unusual in the Italian city-states to have a quarrel between two families quickly escalate to bodily harm or murder, expand to involve their friends, then divide ''the entire city'' into two parties led by rival powerful clans, and then perhaps involve external forces (such as siding with Guelphs and Ghibellines). In several Italian city-states one of the requirements of citizenship was to forswear vengeance as that supposedly now belonged to [[The Government]] which was supposed [[Lawful Neutral|dispense it impartially]]. The fact that that had to be made an explicit requirement tells things about Medieval Italian culture. The problem was, they have lost the ancient traditional solutions for ending feuds, then reverted to conditions in which feuds were pretty much inevitable.
** As described e.g. in ''History of Florence'' by [[Niccolo Machiavelli]], the city had some or other clan-on-clan war on half the time. Buondelmonti vs. Uberti, Cerchi vs. Donati, Ricci vs. Albizzi and so on.
▲** The Pazzi family and the Medici family of Renaissance Florence
▲*** And thus, the inspiration for first arc of ''[[Assassin's Creed]] II''. Only the main character is on the Medici's side.
* In Korea, the Shims and the Yooms. The feud started in the mid 1700's and went on for about 250 years.
* A more lighthearted version of this is from many [[Brits With Battleships|British regiments]]. The British military system still maintains traces of the eighteenth century [[Proud Warrior Race|warrior fraternity]] air in an age of heavily bureaucratized warfare. Several regiments are traditional "enemies" and will continue their feuds with [[Practical Joke|practical jokes]] and [[Bar Brawl|bar brawls]].
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* The clans of Scotland were known for this for a long time, though it died down after the country's acquisition by the United Kingdom, which served to unite many of them to rebel against a perceived common enemy.
* It is common during a large war, for local feuds to exploit and be exploited by the warring parties. If for instance during the American Revolution, the Archies are Loyalists, the Bargies will be with the Continental Congress, but it might as well be the other way as neither cares except insofar as it gives them an accepted excuse to shoot at each other.
** Other interactions between local and larger conflicts are possible, as many as can be imagined. For instance during one feud in the Filipino backcountry one women (from a tribe where women are often the diplomats), before arranging a peace conference made a point to visit a nearby guerrilla leader and ask him to clear the district because many of his men were affiliated with one of the families causing danger of escalation. The warlord agreed to the request and the truce proceeded.
* One of the most absurdly named feuds was [[Silly Reason for War|War of the One Eyed Woman]] between MacDonald and MacLeod caused because an arranged marriage was made between a MacDonald chief and a MacLeod princess with the matchmaker failing to mention that the bride was one-eyed.
** They had been feuding for a long time but the marriage which was supposed to produce an heir failed to do so during the handfasting (provisional marriage)and the loss of an eye was a pretext for breaking it off. The local MacDonald chief though returned her tied backwards on a one-eyed horse, led by a one-eyed servant and followed by a one eyed dog as a deliberate insult.
* The chariot racing fans in the [[Byzantine Empire]] weren't families exactly. But they were lined up in four gangs named after different colors and resembled modern street gangs. Naturally they were always rioting against each other.
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