1. King
1.1. Responsibilities
1.1.1. Over sees the country
1.1.2. Main decision maker
1.2. Rights
1.2.1. Ultimate Ruler
2. Noble
2.1. responsibilities
2.1.1. could raise troops and command them in the field
2.1.2. held own courts of justice
2.2. Rights
2.2.1. free
2.2.2. special legal status
2.2.3. lord of people who settled on their land
2.3. Enviroment
2.3.1. Influenced medieval politics, economics, religion, and culture
3. Knights
3.1. Responsibilities
3.1.1. protect weak and poor
3.2. Enviroment
3.2.1. encouraged to display virtues of chivalry
3.3. Rights
3.3.1. Free
3.3.2. Special legal status
4. Peasants, serfs
4.1. Rights
4.1.1. Lacked Freedom
4.1.1.1. they were able to gain freedom over time
4.2. Responsibilities
4.2.1. Subject to the will of the lord
4.2.1.1. Required to Perform Labor Services for his Lord
4.2.1.2. usually 3 days a week of work, except during harvest time where it was more
4.3. Enviroment
4.3.1. only mentioned in written documents if it was in relation to obligations they had with their superiors
4.3.2. Lived on vast estates called manors
5. Church Officials
5.1. Responsibilities
5.1.1. administer the necessary sacraments with regularity and consistency
5.1.2. absolved men and women of their sins through confession
5.1.3. educated elites who later went to work in service of lords and kings
5.2. Rights
5.2.1. the village priests were the source of secular and ecclesiastical pronouncements
5.3. Enviroment
5.3.1. monasteries were dedicated to prayer
5.3.2. monks kept classical culture alive
5.3.3. Many rituals and symbolism