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Answer40 and people concidered them anchent AnswerAbout a third of the babies died before they were two.

About half of the people died before they were 20 (this includes the infant mortality).

Many women died in childbirth, and many men died in wars.

But those who did not die in these ways often lived to be 60 or 70 or older, and there are parish registries with records of people living to be over 100.

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Life expectancy for a farming peasant was around 40 to 45, if they made it past the first 3 years of life (infant mortality was as high as in 19th century India and Russia).

Monks, bishops and other clerics could live into their 90s, demonstrating the marked benefits of a life in the Church - Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury died aged 84, while Gerald of Wales (Archdeacon of Brecon) lived to be 74.

Among the nobility life expectancy was very low by modern standards, although the Birth Rate was also much higher than today - infant mortality among this group was also very high. A typical 30 year old noblewoman in 1185 had already been twice widowed and had borne 7 children.

Poor diet, warfare, accidents, disease, famine, lack of medical care and infected water were among the many causes of high mortality rates.

This goes to explain why the legal age for marriage was just 7 in the 1160s, rising to 12 in the 1170s. A short life expectancy meant that people became "adults" at a much younger age.

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People in the middle ages suffered their most dangerous life interval before the age of 5. If they survived to that age, and then survived to their 20s and didn't succumb to infectious diseases or broken limbs, they lived as long as we live now in the modern world.

The life expectancy usually calculated in the 30s or 40s for people in the middle ages takes this high infant, childhood, and adolescent mortality. If they got past those life stages, they lived to their 60s/70s, or even beyond.

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