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Yes, the Medieval manors system were intended to be as self sufficient as possible.
Knights were nobles so they lived as nobles. They had manors, estates, or castles. --- Kinghts lived in manor houses. A simple manor house could be a large house on an estate. An expensive manor house could be almost palatial. There were fortified manor houses that looked very much like castles.
I think the factors that made the manor the center of the European economy during the Middle Ages were a weak central government and feudalism because the knight that protected the lords got land around the lord's house which created the manor.
Farmland, forests, the lord's house or castle, and a peasant village The manor was made up of the castle, the church, the village, and the surrounding farmland.
This is a system called the Manor System. The lord of the manor would hire knights. To attracted workers the lord would say that his soldiers would protect the serfs who lived on the farm. In return the serfs would have to farm on the land. So the knights made the manor militarily self sufficient and the serfs' farming made them economically selfsufficient
the people made it
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The Lord of the Manor or the King.
The large house at the center of a manor was called the manor house, and it was a home of the lord of the manor. He could live there with his family. Servants who worked in the manor house often lived in it, in simple rooms. At times, a representative of the lord could live there, and if the lord was in financial need, he could rent it out.
adjective - They lived in a large manor house in rural England. noun - The workers on the manor are well paid
A manor is a large country house that is the principal house of a landed estate. A manor is typically granted by a charter in a British colony.
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The manor economy was based around the village, of which there might be many in a large manor
everything that people needed was grown or made on the manor
A manor was not really built. It was an estate, which was made up of a large tract of land divided into agricultural land and wilderness areas, a manor house where the lord lived, other houses, perhaps in a village, agricultural buildings, other work buildings, and so on. There are links below to related questions.
A mansion or a manor