How did fuedulism work?

Answer 1

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Feudalism. The social structure of the Middle Ages was organized round the system of Feudalism. Feudalism in practice meant that the country was not governed by the king but by individual lords, or barons, who administered their own estates, dispensed their own justice, minted their own money, levied taxes and tolls, and demanded military service from vassals. Usually the lords could field greater armies than the king. In theory the king was the chief feudal lord, but in reality the individual lords were supreme in their own territory. Many kings were little more than figurehead rulers.

Feudal Ties. Feudalism was built upon a relationship of obligation and mutual service between vassals and lords. A vassal held his land, or fief, as a grant from a lord. When a vassal died, his heir was required to publicly renew his oath of faithfulness (fealty) to his lord (suzerain). This public oath was called "homage".

Answer 2

The King owned the land, all of it and the King was divinely appointed. Everyone worked for the king and owed him favors for permission to use the land. The church was both outside and on top of the system. The tradition of church lands not being taxable started under this system. The church was fundamental to the system because it kept everyone in line. The king couldn’t afford to keep a standing army, it cost too much to house and feed them, so they used lords and knights to raise their armies when it became campaign season (summer time between the planting and the harvest when the people where available to fight and the weather was good enough for travel).

The nobles held the land in the name of the King and were responsible to use it for him in his name. They were given written permission to use the land in requirement to supply troops in time of need, a regular payment of money and food and they were given control over their population.

Each noble had another noble underneath them from king to duke to count to lord or knight. The final noble in the chain held a feudal duty to those above him.

The peasants were defacto slaves tied to the land. Their payments were taken off the top, and if that meant the family starved that was their own problem. They couldn’t move without the permission of their lord and had no power or rights.

The church kept the entire system together by authorizing it and saying that god had picked the king and queen and to go against them would be to go against God. They kept the peasants in line with the promise of heaven in the afterlife, even though that was a lie. According to the bible the dead will not rise until Judgment Day when they will fight the Antichrist in the final battle. Only the winners will make it into heaven. The modern conception that you will die and wake up at the pearly gates is a silly pipe dream designed to keep the majority of the population in line and under the thumb of the nobles and the church.

The article in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) doesn’t quite agree with me, but this is how the feudal system worked in Europe.

“Three primary elements characterized feudalism: lords, vassals and fiefs; the structure of feudalism can be seen in how these three elements fit together. A lord was a noble who owned land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. In exchange for the fief, the vassal would provide military service to the lord. The obligations and relations between lord, vassal and fief form the basis of feudalism.”

The lords were the nobles and royalty; the vassals were those who owed the royalty allegiance all the way down to the peasant level. The fiefs were the land itself, which was all owned by the king.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal_society
“Feudal society is a sometimes-debated term used to describe the social order in the Western Europe, Central Europe, and sometimes Japan and other regions in the Middle Ages, characterized by the legal subjection of a large part of the peasantry to a hereditary landholding elite exercising administrative and judicial power on the basis of reciprocal private undertakings.”

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord
“A Lord (or Laird in some Scottish contexts) is a person who has power and authority”

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal
“A vassal or lord, in the terminology that both preceded and accompanied the feudalism of medieval Europe, is one who enters into mutual obligations with a monarch, usually of military support and mutual protection, in exchange for certain guarantees, which came to include the terrain held as a fief. By analogy it is applied to similar systems in other feudal societies.”

Everyone was a vassal to someone except for the king at the top and those in the church who were outside of the system, although many supported and participated in it.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fief
“Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud, feoff, or fee, often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a form of allegiance, originally to give him the means to fulfill his military duties when called upon. However anything of value could be held in fief, such as an office, a right of exploitation (e.g., hunting, fishing) or any other type of revenue, rather than the land it comes from.”

Answer 3

A king or queen rules a kingdom. Lords own manors and there's serfs that live their and work for them, kinda like slaves.

Answer 4

or a condensed, simple version... you have two cows. you milk them both, keep one bucket for yourself, and give one bucket to your lord lo

Answer 5

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