what is service nobility???

Question

u know from the medieval, I just can't find the definition

Answer 1

Ministeriale(n)) was the name used for a member of the class of service nobility in the Middle Ages in Germany.

The establishment of absolute rule, by the monarch, went against the interests of the country's nobility, for it excluded the corporate nobility (the diet) either completely from political power or rendered her insignificant, it either excluded the nobility of the sword from public office, replacing her by the nobility of the robe of non-noble origin (France, Denmark) or reduced her to a service nobility (Prussia, Sweden). While the aforementioned measures were intended to secure absolute rule against interference, respectively to secure the loyalty of the administration, other policies, intended to raise the royal revenue (from taxation), because they favoured the tax-generating peasants and cityfolk, often went against the interests of the noblemen - most notably attempts to liberate the peasants, attempts to codify and thus fix the feudal obligations and dues the peasants owed the noblemen (such a codification could be used to forestall excessive demands by the noblemen). Not to be underestimated is the fact, that changes in the lifestyle of noblemen - the court life at Versailles - grew increasingly expensive and ultimately contributed to financially ruin the entire social class. The Era of Absolutism was a transitional period, from a late feudal society in which nobles still occupied a central position, to a capitalist, bourgeois society in which noblemen were an anachronistic remnant from a distant era.

The government needed to ensure that the service nobility's land would be tilled; it also wanted peasants to pay taxes to support the costs of military expansion. To achieve this a series of edicts forbad the peasants to leave the land. The enserfment of the Russian peasantry took place over a long period but by the mid-seventeenth century it extended to almost all areas but Siberia and the North of Russia. The condition of serfs varied across Russia but they had few rights against their masters and were only better off than slaves in that they could not be sold (except with the land on which they worked.)

Had trouble finding a concrete definition but hope the paragraphs above and sites below are helpful. =)

Answer 2

Nobility Definition