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Feudal Society
Feudal Society
• Those Who Work – 3rd Estate
– peasants
• Those Who Fight – 2nd Estate
– Kings, Lords, Vassals, Knights
• Those Who Pray – 1st Estate
– Pope, Bishop, priests, monks, nuns
Monarch
Lords
Knights
Peasants
Feudal Society
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Liege – the person being served
Vassal – the person serving
Vassals took an oath of fealty (loyalty)
Lieges gave a gift (land/office) to a vassal
Vassals provided service to a liege --40 days
You could be a liege and a vassal!!
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Liege only – no man’s vassal
Vast landholdings
Chosen/hereditary (father to son)
Weakened by invasions and Civil Wars
– Couldn’t keep control
Lords
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They were the government
Dispensed justice
Collected taxes
Waged war
Settled disputes between vassals
Protect the poor, weak and the Church
Chivalry – code of conduct
Knights
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Had no land (generally)
“Second sons” of the wealthy
Expensive to equip
Took and oath of fealty
Could pledge to more than one liege
Chivalry
Peasants
• Serfs
• Tied to the land
• “What do you say about the agricultural
classes? They will be saved because
they live simply and feed God’s people
by means of their sweat.”
• Could also be townspeople/merchants
Manorialism
• Economic System
• Link between the lord and the serf/peasant
• Manors
– Self-sufficient estates
– Lord’s residence
– Two sections
• Demense – lord’s
• Peasantry’s holdings
Review
• Feudalism
– Grew out of a need for protection
– Reciprocal
– Political system
– Provided social stability
Hohensalzburg
Bodiam Castle 1385
Burg Eltz
Fortified Manor – Weoley Castle