What age did people live to in the Middle Ages?

Answer 1

up to forty. anything above will be rare, but not unexpected. they did not have much medicine, so if they ever to get sick, it would be very likely for them to die which is one of the many reasons why they dont live as long as do nowadays. \

My versionThis will sound trite but, times were different.

People made it to 35 or 40 on average (of those who made it to adult age).

But as there was no health care this does not really tell the story.

There were and always have been the elderly, they may have been quite rare but people living into their 70s and 80s were there. Rare and remarkable, but it was possible.

If you think of it this way: most people died of what we think of as easily cured infections or complications from minor injuries.

The people of this time had no real expectation of a long life or a short life, each day was just another day.

Answer 2

well people in the middle ages usually lived until they were 40

girls were engaged at 7 or 8, married at 12 to 14 and pregnant by 20

boys were allowed to marry a girl younger then himself like if he was 14 and she was 12

hope this helped <33333

Answer 3

During the Middle Ages, the life expectancy at birth was not much over twenty. This did not mean that most people died at twenty, but was the result of the fact that a lot of babies and young children died. Life expectancy is a sort of average. If you survived to the age of five, your life expectancy rose to over forty. Bear in mind that this meant that half the people who lived to be adults lived beyond the age of forty. It did not mean that a person of forty five was considered old, but that a person that age had not died young. Old people were often in their sixties and seventies.

I did a quick review of the ages at which historic people died, for which I checked the age at death of kings and bishops. Though my sampling was very small, it lead me to believe kings usually died at about the age of fifty or fifty five. Bishops, by contrast, lived longer, most often dying at over sixty. Of course, kings were more likely to be killed by enemies.

Recently, I took a look at a study that evaluated the accuracy of forensic medical estimates of the age of death of people from earlier times. The medical people examined bones and tried to determine age at death. The ages were compared with known records, and were found to be generally low by several years. This tells me that estimates based on archeology, rather than written records, are likely to be wrong.

Answer 4

30-50 years, depending how lucky they were. Obviously, with the plague, lifespan was cut considerably shorter.