![]() ![]() Now the duke might have his own manor or might even have multiple In medieval England, a duke was the highest title of nobility. Now the terminology here is that the duke would be one of the king's vassals or would be vassal to the king. Region we are in the Middle Ages or it might be in the form of a percentage of the agricultural Provide the king with taxes, which might be in the form of coinage, depending on what time and If the king wants to goĬonquer other territories, same thing, and also The duke will fight alongside the king, would Would provide loyalty, pledge their fealty. So, the king might grant a duchy, a duchy, to a duke, and in exchange, the duke I guess they didn't call it ducky because that justĭoesn't sound as serious. Now, right over here, this is a duchy and a duchy will be controlled by a duke. And the key currency in the Middle Ages under the feudal system is land and land in exchangeįor loyalty and service. That, and to help govern, he might grant land orįiefs to other people. The king come to power, helped him depose the previous Now this is not so easy to govern, especially during the Middle Ages, and the king might owe many people things, especially people who helped Probably familiar with some of the key actors within With the feudal system, which is how most of Europe was governed during the Middle Ages. ![]() Knights in shining armor and their code of chivalry, with kings and castles Of the Western Roman empire in 476 until we get toĪbout 1,000 years later with the emergence of the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration. That roughly 1,000 year period of time in Europe from the end This usage doesn’t usually refer to the actual structural complexities of feudalism, but rather is intended to draw a comparison based on how unequal and unjust such systems were.- Talk about in other videos, the Middle Ages refers to While such systems essentially no longer exist, the term feudal system is still often heard in political discourse as a negative term for unfair forms of government. At the bottom of the hierarchy were farmers and merchants. Japan operated under a feudal system from the 1100s to the 1800s under powerful military leaders called shoguns, whose vassals, called daimyo, controlled armies of samurai. And they were required to get the lord’s permission to do just about anything, including getting married or traveling off of the land.įeudalism wasn’t limited to medieval Europe. Serfs were not free to work elsewhere or go wherever they pleased-if the land passed from one owner to another, the serfs were then required to work the land for that new owner. Working the land (doing the actual farming) at the very bottom of the hierarchy were peasants called serfs. Their tenants, called vassals, swore loyalty to the lord and provided military service (yes, knights in shining armor). At the top of the hierarchy in the feudal system was a king, who traditionally owned all land and granted it directly to noblemen, known as lords, who held hereditary rights to it. The word feudalism may call to mind images of lowly peasants toiling for haughty nobles, but the relationships in such systems were more complex than that. ![]() The term feudal system was introduced much later, in the 1700s, by scholars studying the complex legal and political relationships of the Middle Ages. But they didn’t call it a feudal system at the time. The feudal system developed in Europe when the decline of the Roman Empire led to a fragmentation of power, which in turn allowed wealthy landowners to strengthen their control over the people living on their land. ![]()
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