This lesson contains 25 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.
Lesson duration is: 30 min
Items in this lesson
clerics
aristocrats / nobles
peasants
boeren
geestelijken
edelen
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AGE 3: The Time of monks and knights
3.3 Feudalism and the Manorial system
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Slide 3 - Video
First make a note in your notebook.
Lesson 3.3:Feudalism and the Manorial system
The three estates (de drie standen)
Estate : a group to which you belonged from birth.
There were 3 estates:
1st estate: CLERGY (geestelijkheid)
Who? everybody who worked for the Catholic Church (= clerics)
For example: monks, priests, bishops, the pope
Task: PRAY for the people
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First make a note in your notebook.
2nd estate: NOBILITY / ARISTOCRACY (de adel)
who? rich land owners
for example: a count (graaf), a duke (hertog), the king
task: PROTECT the people
3rd estate: PEASANTS (de boeren)
who? everybody else
for example: peasants, craftsmen, merchants, soldiers...
task: WORK (mainly provide all the food)
NOTE: About 95% of the population belonged to the 3rd estate.
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THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
A PIECE OF LAND (FIEF) ON LEASE
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
A PIECE OF LAND (FIEF) ON LEASE
LOYALTY / ADVISE / MILITARY SERVICE
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
LOWER NOBLES & KNIGHTS
A PIECE OF LAND (FIEF) ON LEASE
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
LOYALTY / ADVISE / MILITARY SERVICE
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
LOWER NOBLES & KNIGHTS
A PIECE OF LAND (FIEF) ON LEASE
PART
OF THEIR FIEF
ON LEASE
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
LOYALTY / ADVISE / MILITARY SERVICE
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
LOWER NOBLES & KNIGHTS
A PIECE OF LAND (FIEF) ON LEASE
PART
OF THEIR FIEF
ON LEASE
LOYALTY /
MILITARY SERVICE
LOYALTY / ADVISE / MILITARY SERVICE
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
LOWER NOBLES & KNIGHTS
PEASANTS / SERFS
A PIECE OF LAND (FIEF) ON LEASE
PART
OF THEIR FIEF
ON LEASE
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
LOYALTY / ADVISE / MILITARY SERVICE
LOYALTY /
MILITARY SERVICE
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
LOWER NOBLES & KNIGHTS
PEASANTS / SERFS
A PIECE OF LAND (FIEF) ON LEASE
PART
OF THEIR FIEF
ON LEASE
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
PART
OF THEIR FIEF
ON LEASE
&
PROTECTION
LOYALTY / ADVISE / MILITARY SERVICE
LOYALTY /
MILITARY SERVICE
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MONARCH
(KING/EMPEROR)
HIGH NOBLES
(DUKE, COUNT)
LOWER NOBLES & KNIGHTS
PEASANTS / SERFS
A PIECE OF LAND (FIEF) ON LEASE
PART
OF THEIR FIEF
ON LEASE
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
PART
OF THEIR FIEF
ON LEASE
&
PROTECTION
LOYALTY
FOOD & SERVICES
LOYALTY / ADVISE / MILITARY SERVICE
LOYALTY /
MILITARY SERVICE
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First make a note in your notebook.
In the Feudal System:
the person above you was your lord ( = leenheer)
the person below you was your vassal (= leenman)
So from the bottom upwards, everybody was loyal to the monarch.
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First make a note in your notebook.
Peasants ( vrije boeren) & serfs (horige boeren)
They are both farmers.
The difference:
Peasants are free farmers and have their own farmland. But they must pay taxes to their lord
Serfs are not-free farmers. They are bound to the lord's land must work for the lord in exchange for protection
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A
A
Feudal System
Manor System
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First make a note in your notebook.
The Manor System:
= a deal between the serfs and their lord.
The manor = the land on which the lord and the serfs lived.
In short: the serfs used the lord's land and worked for him in exchange for protection
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manor house
The place where the lord lived and from where he ruled the village.
Many times the manor was fortified by walls. Sometimes the manor was built on top of a small hill and surrounded by a palissade.
The manor farm consisted of the manor (= fortified farmhouse / castle) + some land with orchards, farming fields and work places around it.
mill
The mill was where people grounded wheat and grain.
It was owned by the lord.
Serf peasants could use the mill to grind their grain, but of course they had to pay the lord for this. The payment was not money, but a percentage of the produce of the peasant.
farm
The houses the peasants (= farmers) lived in were not as nice as the manor house. They were thatched roofed
The palissade surrounds the manor farm. If the domain is attacked the peasants can find shelter within the walls of the manor farm.
Peasants worked on farm land for the lord in exchange for protection and land.
church
The church is where holy events took place (weddings, sermons, funerals). The church is also where the sick would be taken care of.
Sometimes the lord used this place to speak justice. He could hand out punishments to criminals.
A Shepard worked with the livestock in the fields. This would help produce food and cloth for the village
orchard
the manor's orchard.
servile duties
This meant that serfs needed to work for the lord two or three days a week. They worked the lord's fields, or built and repaired his palissade.
The Manor
A. where the lord lives
B. Domain: where the peasants live
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The manor system:
a deal between the lord and his serfs
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AGE 3: The Time of monks and knights
3.4 The Vikings
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In 834 the Dutch town of Dorestad (now Wijk bij Duurstede) was attacked, with many inhabitants being killed or taken as slaves.
Over time various Vikings families decided that the families wanted to continue living in the area that is now known as Normandy .
The Vikings brought their goods, such as animal skins and walrus ivory as far as Asia.
In 1002 Leif Erikson and his crew went ashore in Newfoundland (Canada) long before Christopher Columbus arrived in America in 1492..