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The owner of a manor and its manor house would be a knight, but it was often left under the safekeeping of a steward or bailiff who acted as agent for the knight. Bailiffs had day-to-day control, like an estate manager.
The reason is simple - knights usually held many manors, spread across the whole country and they could not live in all of them at the same time. Take just one example:
When the Anglo-Norman knight Richard fitz Urse died in 1168, his son Reginald inherited manors at Barham, Kent and at Williton Somerset, plus land in Northamptonshire. Reginald would have visited each manor in turn to ensure that work was being done and rents, fines and fees were gathered and taxes were paid - but he could only live in one manor at a time, leaving the others under the control of a steward or bailiff.
In the time of Edward II (around 1307) one manuscript described such a man: "il fut soun bailiff del maner [...] et aveit la cure et l'administracioun des biens de mesme le maner" [he was his manorial bailiff and he had the care and administration of everything to do with the manor].
The Norman, Angevin and Plantagenet kings ensured that each knight held many manors that were distant from each other so that no knight could build up a powerbase in any one small area, potentially challenging the king's authority.
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How do you use manor in a sentence?
The person most commonly met in the Middle ages lived on a manor.
What is the village-like section of a fief in the middle ages?
manor
Did the plague cause the manor system to fall apart in the middle ages?
yes, it did cause the manor system
What might have happened if everyone on the manor decided to go on strike in the middle ages?
they die
The Middle Ages in Western Europe was characterized by what?
the manor system and the importance of land ownership
How was life different from a town in the middle ages from life on a manor?
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How do you use manor in a sentence?
The person most commonly met in the Middle ages lived on a manor.
What is the village-like section of a fief in the middle ages?
manor
How did the manor system of the middle ages work?
very carefully
Where did the lords live in the Middle Ages?
The lord in the middle ages lived in the back of a castle !
Did the plague cause the manor system to fall apart in the middle ages?
yes, it did cause the manor system
Who baked in the Middle Ages?
During the Middle Ages, only monasteries and manor houses baked large quantities of leavened products
What role did the feudal manor play in Western European society in the Middle Ages?
The Manor ade Feudalism possible
What system of government was set up during the middle ages?
the manor system
Where did kings live in the middle ages?
they lived in castles on the manor and they ruled the land.
A large estate owned by a noble or knight in the middle ages was called a?
manor
