Feudalism
by Bettina Beverly
1. King
1.1. Enviornment- The king was typically and always very wealthy because he was born into a rich family. He typically had elagent clothing and lived in a casle. His social ranking was higher then the nobles thought they had simulay things
1.2. Duties- the kings job was to be in controll over all of the manors
1.3. Rights- The king had total freedom as long as he didnt do anything drastic like perpously killl his people
2. Knight
2.1. Enviornment
2.2. Duites- It was a knights job to protects the lords land and its people. He was in command under the lord.
2.3. Rights- The knights were under the command of the noble that was in command of them
3. Nobles
3.1. Enviornment- The Nobles lived in weath. They had elegant clothes, big castles, and they never went hungary or thirsty.
3.2. Duties- Although nobles practically didnt work, they had to maintain responsabilities. The noble could raise troops and command them in the feild, hold his own corts of justcie, and he could coin his own money. Nobles where also lords to the people who lived in their land.
3.3. Rights-The nobles had total freedom. the only thing that they had to do was fufill his military obligation to the lord.
4. Church Officals
4.1. Enviornemt- The Church Officails took up the glamorous life. They seemed more interested in living like a nobel then fufilling thier duty of spiritual guidance.
4.2. Duties-Their duties where to administer the necessary sacraments with regularity and consistency. They also oversaw the spiritual life of his flock on the medieval manor.
4.3. Rights- The Church officials wernt very restricted in their rights. Because of their faith they must have had to resstrict from marriage and they had to be men of the church.
5. Pesants
5.1. Enviorment- The pesants lived in a manor owned by a noble. Their land was all that they knew because they couldnt leave it. Each manor would hyave little villaged where the pesants lived. 15-30 families lived on one manor.
5.2. Duties- the pesants only duty was to work in the land. One pesant would have to work a sertain amount of strips. Because there where little horses and plows it was importaint for a pesant to work.
5.3. Rights- Pesants where grated the right of freedom but they could do limated things. They wheren't allowed to leave their mannor or stop workfor their lords but they re aloed to once in a while rent the lords land for a limated amount of time.