If you didn't keep your promise, your land But you might have a problem if two or more of your You could pledge your support to 10 orġ2 lords. The vassal system provided that quick access. To a large group of fighting men that he could call on for help. Often and nearly continuous, a warrior had to have quick access Your family would be kicked out.Īnd your land and its serfs would be awarded to someone Wedding or special occasion of your lord's children.ĭid not keep your promises, you would be tried, convicted,Īnd stripped of your lands. To help offset the cost of your lord's wedding, or any Providing food and shelter when your lord came visiting.Ī ransom if necessary, should your lord be captured in The lord (including nobles) who gave you the fief. Including people), you had to promise several things. A fief was the promise of loyalty toĪnd become the head of a manor (the land and everything on it, The manor was the landĪnd everyuthing on it. Huts, the village, the manor house, and any other buildings or It was a unit of land with everything on it, including people, Lords and Ladies (Nobles) came next, Knights, and at the bottom Monarchs (Kings) were at the top of pyramid. The feudal system was based on a pyramid of It was a way to get an army together quickly to defend aĮveryone served someone above them. This political system was called feudalism. The fighting men you promised were quite often knights.įeudalism describes the legal obligation of a vassal to a noble,Ī pledge of support. Your fief, and promise military support in times of need. But all came with a price, a pledge of loyalty.įief, you had to pledge your loyalty to the noble who gave you There were many, many fiefs in the Middle Ages.įiefs were awarded for bravery in battle. Of land to lower ranking lords of society. Once the nobles gained land, they divided their land again Since the kings were not powerful, andĬould not defend their territory effectively, a king divided his During the Middle Ages, the kings were not very Feudalism was a way to get an army together quickly, Little piece of the empire fighting with each other, some way had to be found to end it. Without the empire to keep things going, each part of the empire fell to fighting. This leads on to a broader reconsideration of feudo-vassalic bonds in the tenth- and early eleventh-century Reich, which argues that though the evidence to hand does not conform well to classic teaching regarding the ‘feudal system’, it nevertheless shows important developments towards something approximating this, which by the second half of the twelfth century comes more fully into view.Charlemagne died, the Frankish empire fell apart. Taking as its starting point two descriptions of acts of submission which involved the ritual of homage, it argues that neither can sustain a traditional feudo-vassalic interpretation it would seem that homage was used in such contexts not because the parties involved were bound by a putative ‘feudal contract’, but rather because it was a flexible rite, which was by no means limited to relations between feudal lords and their enfeoffed vassals. This paper seeks to shed light on the role of feudo-vassalic relations in Ottonian Germany, approaching the subject from angle of the role which homage played in dispute settlement.
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