5.5 Feudalism and the Manorial system

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5.5 Feudalism and the Manorial system

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lesson you...

• understand how feudalism worked.
• understand how the Manorial system worked.

Feudal system

• Started by the Franks
•  System of higher lord giving lesser lords (nobles) a piece of land = a fief.
• In return the lesser lord gives a pledge of fealty to his lord.

Knights

• =fighter on horseback
• Some knights were vassals of a land and got a fief. Other lived in their castles and fought in their armies.

5.5 Feudalism and the Manorial system

Manor

• =Large piece of adjoining land.
•  Two parts: land of the lord and land of the farmers
• Manor= Domain
• Together this is called the Manorial system.

Fief

Manor

Pledge of fealty

Knight

Fighter on horseback

Piece of adjouning land

Giving loyalty to a lord

A piece of land given to a vassal

Serfs= Horigen

• Belong to the domain.
• If the lord sells the land or gives it away, the serfs is as well.

• A serf is not allowed to:
• Leave the domain without permission.
• Marry without approval of the lord.