How are feudal system and manorial system connected?

Answer 1

Manorialism is part of the feudal system.

In an age with poor communications and organisation, the feudal system worked as well as anything could to hold larger units together, principally for defence and security. It was territorially based, but depended on personal, not national or political, allegiance and devolved authority down from a supreme governor (under God, a King or Emperor was usually the supreme ruler).

The King granted to the greater lords areas of land to rule. On his part, he swore to use his greater power to come to their aid if attacked, while they swore to be loyal subjects and to turn out, with their people, to fight for the king for up to 40 days in any one year. They in their turn made grants on similar terms to lesser nobility and knights, whose land-grant might amount to as little as a single village (manor). In turn, the knight (often called lord) of the manor allowed land to the local farmers, most of whom were serfs and not allowed to leave the area, in exchange for subsistence and service in war.

The duty of the farmers and labourers on the manor to provide for their lord, either by rent in cash or kind or by customary service, allowed him, his sons (if adult) and their war-horses to be kept fit and in constant training for war. In the event of military service being called for, the King would call out the great lords, who called out their immediate dependants and so on. The whole system depended on personal loyalty - loyalty to inferiors as well as to superiors - and was thus constantly under strain when someone (at any point in the chain) tried to collect the benefits of the system without honouring his own side of the bargain. With all its faults, however, it lasted for hundreds of years.