Their lives usually and the crops they grew plus taxes. They were taxed for everything even dying.
The lords promised to give their vassals protection and fiefs, or estates.
Fiefs are typically owned by feudal lords or nobility in the context of the feudal system. These lords hold the land granted to them by a higher authority, such as a king or queen, in exchange for military service and loyalty. The lords may then grant portions of their fief to vassals in return for similar obligations. While the lord retains ultimate ownership, the vassals have rights to use and manage the land.
The feudal system is described by the Feudal Pyramid, which has four basic elements, the king, the lords, the common vassals, and the serfs. It is called a pyramid because each layer was supported by a much larger group that supported it, down to the serfs. The term vassal is sometimes applied only to those below the lords, but the lords were vassals.
Lords and vassals in the feudal system had mutual obligations that defined their relationship. Lords were responsible for providing protection, land (fiefs), and support to their vassals, while vassals were obligated to offer military service, loyalty, and counsel to their lords. This exchange formed the foundation of feudal society, establishing a hierarchy where loyalty and service were paramount. Failure to fulfill these obligations could lead to loss of land or status for both parties.
An agreement between two groups of nobles-lords and vassals.
Vassals served lords in exchange for protection and land rights. In the feudal system, vassals pledged loyalty and military service to their lords in return for the lord's support and the ability to use and cultivate land on the lord's estate.
vassals
Vassalage is the relationship between the feudal lord and his vassal. Kings had higher lords as vassals, and higher lords had lower lords as vassals. The practice was called subinfeudation.
they were given land
(in feudal Japan) one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.
The lords promised to give their vassals protection and fiefs, or estates.
Fiefs are typically owned by feudal lords or nobility in the context of the feudal system. These lords hold the land granted to them by a higher authority, such as a king or queen, in exchange for military service and loyalty. The lords may then grant portions of their fief to vassals in return for similar obligations. While the lord retains ultimate ownership, the vassals have rights to use and manage the land.
the monarchs during the feudal system were the feudal lords they were excepted to keep protection for their vassals
The feudal system is old fashioned, but that is not what the word means. This refers to the political system that held from roughly the 9th through 15 centuries in Europe. Feudal lords held large territories, and there was no private ownership of land by ordinary individuals. The people living on the land were vassals and subject to the lords. The lords exacted taxes from the vassals based on what the vassals could produce from the land, and the vassals were also expected to remain loyal to the lords in matters of defense, etc. The lords themselves were usually subject to the king, who was in fact the sole owner of all the lands in his domain.
King comands everybody below him
beacause they were losers
The feudal system is described by the Feudal Pyramid, which has four basic elements, the king, the lords, the common vassals, and the serfs. It is called a pyramid because each layer was supported by a much larger group that supported it, down to the serfs. The term vassal is sometimes applied only to those below the lords, but the lords were vassals.