they worked and they fought to live and earn money
they worked and they fought to live and earn money
The manor house was the house for the lord of the manor. Usually the lord lived in a manor house, but lords often had more than one manor, and some lords had many. The result was that sometimes the only people who lived in the manor house were the household servants. If the lord was not living in the manor house, it was usually kept ready for him to stay in if he showed up. There were many cases of manors being rented out, and in such a case, the person who rented it lived in the manor house. This normally happened only if the lord of the manor was short of money.
Peasants lived in a village outside the manor.
He lived in the manor house.
serfs and manor house owners
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In England the medieval knight lived in a manor house not in the castle. A number of farms supported one manor house. One manor house supported one knight. England had about 6,000 manor houses. It took a number of manors to support a castle. The baron living in the castle might also be a knight. The solders living in the castle were not generally knights.
Nobles and peasants.
No pay. He was a noble boy who was in training to become a knight. People did not earn a "salary" in this time. Peasants worked for the house and land they lived on, nobles earned the manor for being loyal to the king for whom they protected politically.
A manor was usually an economy unto itself. The people living there included craftsmen and farmers who produced goods for sale and trade.
Well, it had peasants [or serfs] that farmed in exchange for protection, and since usually manors were next to rivers and other natural resources, they had water, wood, food, and everything else they might need. Manors also had their own military for protection.
The medieval manor was a home to some lord, who might have lived there. It was also home to whatever servants and permanent guests the lord might have had there. The servants might have included a steward and household servants, and some of these might have lived in the manor house itself. Also on the manor were a number of people who were laborers, and these would have included tenant farmers and serfs, along with anyone else who might do labor, such as a miller, for example.