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The hundred years' war weakened the feudal system because it helped shift power from lords to monarchs to commoners. Knights and castles were less useful because gunpowder and longbows were invented. Also a new feeling of nationalism shifted power away from lords
There are not really that many cases of major conflicts between cities and feudal lords. Mostly this was because cities got all kinds of charters and right over time directly from kings that put them out of the grip of most feudal lords. They operated quite independently in terms of political and econonomic power from the feudal nobles who mostly had their power base in rural areas. If there were (mostly minor) clashes at all, it was usually about cities' rights and privileges or over the appointment of magistrates that the neighboring lord did not like.
Well lords had power over nights and nights had power over peasants. The lords and nights lived in manners. lords would tax nights and nights would tax peasants peasants would pay in money and crops. In the medieval times there was a system called The Feudal System the monarch (king) was at the top then the bishops and lords next was the nights and lower clergy and then at the bottom the peasants.
they forced feudal lords to swore allegiance to them and try to gain higher authority over the churches.
Merchants and the common people.
Merchants and the common people.
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During the Middle Ages, the growth of towns weakened the feudal system in several crucial ways. For one thing, it shifted the focus-point for communities from the feudal manor to the local town itself, which was becoming more and more important. For another thing, the wealth of the small but growing "middle class" gave them more and more power with which to use as a new, independent force in the governance of lands once solely governed by the feudal lords.
At that time there was feudalism, where people answered to their feudal lords. These lords would fight each other for power and territory.
Status gives a person more power. The higher the status, the more power. For example, A King would have more power then Lords. Lords would have more power over knights. Knights would have more power than Serfs.
The hundred years' war weakened the feudal system because it helped shift power from lords to monarchs to commoners. Knights and castles were less useful because gunpowder and longbows were invented. Also a new feeling of nationalism shifted power away from lords
Feudal lords were loyal because they owed their power to the king. This created a stable political structure, as everyone was indebted to and reliant on the person higher in the feudal system.
A centralized government. Feudal lords no longer have the power to challenge the emperor's reign.
Feudal lords were loyal because they owed their power to the king. This created a stable political structure, as everyone was indebted to and reliant on the person higher in the feudal system.