Whew! The knight never said that this work was so difficult on a nice, hot, summer day!
The Serfs
You always believe you can no matter how many times I tell you. We are born into our class!
One day, I will be king, or even a noble or a kight!
The Knights
This is my manor. I own the serfs you might have seen earlier , the freeman is working for me, as I speak.
The Nobles Lords
Welcome to my humble abode, one of the many 3/4 land/feifs of the king.
The serfs were linked to thier current lord, unable to leave. They made up most of the pesants, but were not enslaved. Serfs got food, protection, shelter to farm the land pay rent. They also had the oportunity to farm their own land.
The Kings
We are the King Queen who made the laws owned the country.
The knights got feifs, another word for plots of land, serfs in return for homage military service.They respected women their lords went to church often. The serfs lived in villages, but the knights got to live in thier own manors castles.
The Feudal System Pyramid
The KIng
The lods/nobles were the ones with the greatest power, other than the king. They owned lots of land, got feifs pesants for loyalty military aid. They were masters to knights many serfs, had the most land of the three.
The king gave 3/4 of his land to churches lords/nobleswho swore an oath to be forever loyal to him.
But it was mostly me.
This is the Feudal system. Now you know how hard/easy it must have been to live in the Medieval Times.