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The feudal system was based on the king and the Church owning every inch of land. Everyone else was allowed to holdportions of it, and have sub-tenants holding land from them, in return for services and payments of various kinds.
This is the reason for the compilation of Domesday Book, so that the newly-crowned king William I could calculate the value of all his land and the expected income from the entire kingdom.
The word "tenant" comes from Latin teneo, I hold. The cottars at the very bottom of the social ladder might hold about 12 to 15 acres of land from a knight (lord of the manor); a freeman might hold 60 acres and each would pay in work, in rents and customary services. The knight might hold all his manors from a higher-ranking knight in return for military service and the higher-ranking knight might hold his lands from an Earl, who held huge areas of land from the king.
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∙ 11y agoUnder a feudal system as manifested in the Middle Ages, land ownership was technically all in the hands of the king. He gave authority over land to others in exchange for specified services appropriate to the holding -- a noble with fields suitable for horses might be required to provide a dozen horses in time of war, one with lots of forest might be required to provide an annual amount of lumber, etc. In addition, all nobles were required to furnish a certain number of men at arms, archers, even peasants, in case of war.
Greater nobles might have lesser ones under them, who held land under that noble's authority, but it was still ultimately from the king.
In some places, cities also held land, their councils taking the place of nobles. Merchants sometimes held land from the king as well. But the common bond was that every person or group who held land from the king had to provide military support in time of war.
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What was the responserbility of a Monk in the feudal system?
Monks were not part of the feudal system. They were part of the Church clergy and held no land of their own; they owed no feudal obligation to any overlord and were not governed by the king's law.The Church as an institution held land and might also have manors, peasants and knights owing feudal obligations to an abbot or bishop, but monks were in no way connected with any of this.
Did Medieval Europe have a central government?
The political scene in Medieval Europe was most characterized by the Feudal system. The Feudal system involves a very loose collection of lords and vassals who control their own plots of land and laborers, but pledge their loyalty to a single king. By nature, the feudal system is very decentralized as the day-to-day decisions were made by the individual lords and vassals over their individual areas of land, and were not decided by a king holding central authority.
Why did craftsmen and merchants not own land in the middle ages?
land in the middleages cost money because you had to pay taxes for land. merchants and craftsmen were on the outside of the fudal system and made there own money so they did need land
What were serfs in the Middle Ages?
a serf is a person who must stay to the land and owned by the feudal landlord and is a part that keeps the feudalism system balanced because they do most of the work. A serf had to pay to the lord money when he's almost dead, a dead person makes the family of serfs pay even more. He also had to fight for his/her lord... >(
What is manorial?
It refers to a system adopted in medieval times to organize the rural economy. There were three classes of 'manors' such as the free peasant holding of land, the serf who was bound to the land and subject to his lord's will but entitles to his protection and the Demesne who was an individual in possession of his own land. This was land that adjoined or belonged to the Manor House
In the feudal system both could own land?
nobles, the Church
Is fea a word?
In old English, a fea was the smallest unit of land a fief could own under the feudal system, but it has no modern applications (other than acronyms).
What was the responserbility of a Monk in the feudal system?
Monks were not part of the feudal system. They were part of the Church clergy and held no land of their own; they owed no feudal obligation to any overlord and were not governed by the king's law.The Church as an institution held land and might also have manors, peasants and knights owing feudal obligations to an abbot or bishop, but monks were in no way connected with any of this.
What was a difference between Calvert's manor system plan in Maryland and use of indentured servants in Virginia?
could not own land.
Was the feudal systems new?
Feudem is a Latin word meaning to give land in return for services. As king, William owned all the land in England. But he could not manage it on his own, and he wanted to reward those supporters who had helped him beat Harold in the Battle of Hastings. So he shared the land with his loyal followers. William lent large estates of land to powerful barons. They gave smaller areas of this land, called manors, to knights. Knights were fighting men with little knowledge of farming. So they shared their manors among peasants, or villeins, who worked on it. Lending land in this way was called the feudal system. In the system, each person made promises in return for their land. The feudal system was totally new, however before 1066 their was an organising like the feudal system. But unlike the feudal system the people did not have to make promises for their land, they had to pay money for their land. As in both systems there was ranking of the people and the king was at the top and then to follow was the church. In the system before 1066 the rankings were in the following order The king and the Church , the earls, the thegns, the ceorls, the cottars and the serfs. After 1066 in the feudal system the ranking were in the following order The king and the Church, the barons, the knights, the villeins
What is the difference between the Calvert's manor system in Maryland and indentured servants in Virginia?
Could not own land.
What was the land kept by feudal lord for own use called?
DEMESNE
Why did the knights not farm there own land?
A knight was part of the nobility and given the land by the king for service to the crown. It was part of the feudal system that there were those who worked and the small groups of people who benefited from the work of others.
Is feudal system fair?
The feudal system is not considered to be a fair system because of its bias toward the wealthier classes of people within the system. The lower the class of person, the less likely he would be to own property.
What was the ruling system the Normans introduced in 1066?
Feudalism
Did Medieval Europe have a central government?
The political scene in Medieval Europe was most characterized by the Feudal system. The Feudal system involves a very loose collection of lords and vassals who control their own plots of land and laborers, but pledge their loyalty to a single king. By nature, the feudal system is very decentralized as the day-to-day decisions were made by the individual lords and vassals over their individual areas of land, and were not decided by a king holding central authority.
What responsibilities did peasants have in the feudal system?
Peasants did not have many responsibilities in the feudal system. All they had to do was pay their tither, or 10% of their crops, to the church. Otherwise, they did not have many responsibilities. ----- Peasants who were yeoman farmers had their own holdings. They had to pay tax to their feudal lords or the king, and to be ready to serve in the army, usually as archers. Peasants who were freeman tenants had to pay rent, usually in the form of money, to their landlords. Those who were serfs had to pay rent, usually in the form of work, and had to work common fields with other serfs. They were obliged never to move away from the manors on which they lived, but in exchange for this got a place to live, jobs, and protection.
