1. The Feudal and Manorial System
Chapter 13
Section 3
The Feudal and Manorial System

2. Key Terms Knights Fief Vassal Feudal system fealty Manorial system
Serfs

3. Magyars and Muslims Attack from the East and South
Invasions caused suffering and disorder
No longer looked to central authority
People turned to local rulers

4. New Social Order 911 Rollo and Charles the Simple faced each other
Charles gave Rollo a large piece of French territory
Became Normandy Rollo pledged no to attack the king

5. Feudalism Structure Society
worse years for invasions
Feudalism- governing and landholding
Zhou Dynasty in China had feudalism
Was in Japan from 1192 to 19 century

6. Feudalism Structures Society
Based on right and obligations
Lord- landowner
Fief a grant of land
Vassal- the person receiving the fief
Two sided bargain
Worked on who controlled the land

7. Knights and Lords Knights- highly trained fighters
Defend the nobles land
Fief-land given to a knight for his service
Vassal-anyone who excepted a fief
Lord- the person who gave the land
Feudal system-exchanging the land for service

8. The Feudal Pyramid King at the top Powerful vassals
Wealthy landowners and bishops
Knights- mounted horsemen who pledged to defend the lord in exchange for a fief
Landless peasants- who worked the fields

9. Social Classes are well Defined
Status determined prestige
Manor system- set of rights and obligations
Three groups
Those who fought- nights and nobles
Those who prayed-men and woman of the church
Those who worked -peasants

11. Social Classes Well Defined
Europe Middle Ages
Majority were peasants
Serfs-
Could not leave the place they were born
Bound to the land
Not slaves
Could not be bought or sold
Labor belonged to lord

12. Social Classes Defined
Fealty- a knights promise to remain loyal to his lord
Manorial system-built around large estates called manor
Economic system
Each group followed rules

13. Manors the Economic Side of Feudalism
Manor- the lord’s estate
Manor system- basic economic arrangement
Rights and obligation between lords and serfs
Lord provided housing, farmland and protection
Serf maintained the estate

14. A Self Contained World Peasants rarely traveled more than 25 miles
Center of plowed field could see their world
15-30 families
Manor house, church, workshops
Streams provide fish
Mills for grain

15. A Self-Contained World
Manor largely self sufficient
Serf’s raised and produced everything
Outside purchase was iron, salt and millstones
Crops were wheat, barley, oats and vegetables

16. A Self-Contained World
Free people also rented land from a lord
3 field rotation
Leave one field empty for a year
Helped to improve the soil
Better than two field system
Able to plant on 2/3’s of the land instead of 1/2

17. The Harshness of Manor Life
Peasant paid a high price
Paid a tax on all their grain ground at lord’s mill
Baking bread elsewhere was a crime
Tax on marriage
Weddings needed lord’s consent

18. The Harshness of Manor Life
Owed village priest a tithe- church tax
One tenth of income
Serfs lived in crowded cottages
One or two rooms
One for cooking one for sleeping
Warmed house by bringing pigs inside

19. The Harshness of Manor Life
Family lay down on a straw pile full of insects
Peasant diet
Vegetables
Coarse brown bread
Grain, cheese, and soup
Most serfs life was hard

20. The Harshness of Manor Life
Typical day
Raise livestock
Taking care of your home
Children worked in the field
Most did not survive to adulthood
Illness and malnutrition
Life expectancy 35 years