What is a feudal system? Detailed answer

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What is a feudal system?

Today Europe is divided into many states. But from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century it was one. Europe was divided into large estates, and the people who lived in them did not think of themselves as French, German or English. Simply, each person expressed devotion to his landlord, this landlord to the more significant one, and the most influential of them to the king.

Local lords, who owned large estates, did not want to have any worries or expenses for the maintenance of the entire apparatus for managing these estates. But they needed support and protection, so they gave plots of land to people of noble birth who swore allegiance to them. These were knights. They also became owners of estates. Although some knights did not possess them, but were in close proximity to the lord, in his castle.

The lords on the estates had serfs and serfs. Serves were attached to the estate. When it was sold, servos were sold with it. They worked the lord's land, but he did not feed or clothe them. Instead, he gave them plots of land, which they cultivated as if they were their own. This land could not be taken from them, it was inherited by children, but the heirs had to pay a fee for it to the lord. The peasants were also serfs, but they paid a fixed amount to the lord for their land instead of paying taxes on the produce that came from that land, as the serfs did.

The estates supported themselves. This means that nothing was imported from other estates, everything necessary for life was produced on the spot. The lord kept mills, wine presses, sheep pens. The serfs could use them, but had to pay for it. If the lord was kind, the peasants and serfs lived in peace. They worked long and hard, but they were protected by the lord, he took care of them.

When the feudal system began to disintegrate, it was not the result of peasant revolts. It was just that the lords began to object to the power of the king. Parliaments began to function, nations began to take shape, and the peasants soon became free.

Author: Likum A.

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