
A squire would take care of the Knight's horse, armor, and weapons When ready, the Squire would accompany the Knight into battle.ĩ Crusades European Knights would travel to the Middle East on Crusade The goal was to gain control of the city of Jerusalem. Steps to Knighthood: A boy must belong to a noble class At age 7 the boy would serve as a Knight’s page Learn knightly manners and how to care for weapons As a teenager the boy becomes a squire. This refers that peasants were responsible for all food production.Ĩ Becoming a Knight Knight – A mounted soldier who lived by the code of Chivalry and served a Feudal superior. Peasants were seen as “the backbone of Feudalism in Europe”. Receives land to work to grow food, and protection form Vassal.

Receives land which he can then divide Peasants/Serfs – Gives labor, services, and product.

Receive services, food, an army for protection and expanding land Vassal – Gives loyalty and fights for Noble. Vassals then own service to the Noble Chivalry – A European code of conduct that focusing on courage, loyalty, courtesy, and fighting fairly.ħ Benefits of Feudalism Noble – Give land. Nobles- Hereditary landowner of a privileged class in Europe Nobles would grant land (fief) to lesser nobles known as vassals. Medieval – The time period in the Middle Ages.

Peasant s/Serfs Peasant s/Serfs Peasant s/Serfs Peasant s/Serfs Peasants /Serfs Peasants /Serfs Serfs would give a share of their produce to the Knights above them Knights would divide their land further and allow Serfs to work their land. King/Queen (Monarch) Lords/Nobles (Landowners) Knights The king gave land to Nobles The Nobles were loyal to the King Nobles would divide their land for knights Knights would defend the Nobles and act as an army. The chart on European Feudalism demonstrates this. However, both Nobles and peasants received things they needed. The Feudal System was a system of social order after the fall of the Roman Empire In the Feudal system, the relationship between nobles and peasants were not equal. King/Queen (Monarch) Lords/Nobles (Landowners) Knights Peasant s/Serfs Peasants /Serfs Title: _ Role: _ Loyal to: Himself Lord/Noble Grant land to lesser nobles Title: _ Role: Allowed to live off, but not own fiefs Loyal to: _ Knights (Vassel)/ Lesser Nobles Lord/Noble Title: Peasant/Serf Role: _ Loyal to: _ Work the land for living and for prophet for their noble. People of one class cannot take up jobs of their interest rather they were forced to perform the duties of the class in which they were born.ĭuring 18 th and 19 th centuries, the wind of change bowled and as a result of many revolutions the feudal system also saw its end.2 Feudalism – Chapter 13 worksheet Answers GRS Problems involved that people of lower classes were treated badly rich were becoming richer while poor were becoming poorer. This class system was initially adopted to fight the external problems that the people of Europe were facing, but later on it became hereditary and started posing its own problems. The uppermost class was of the King and lowermost class was of peasants who were responsible to grow crops and farm the lands. The lands were distributed to get the services, and hence people owning larger lands started getting respects from the ones who held small areas of lands. These kingdoms had every type of people required to perform every type of job. Every class had a set of duties, and in this way these small kingdoms became self-dependent. The classes in the feudal hierarchy system were on the basis of the privileges that it held and the duties it was required to perform. They also used these lands for hunting etc. Kings were also used to retain large estates of lands with themselves to get royal revenues from them. Land loyalty and service were the three important pillars of the feudal society where anybody who took land from king was required to take oath to serve the king with loyalty. The usual services included supply of soldiers at the time of war. In exchange of land, king was offered services by these people. The noble men were the category of people that existed below the king in the feudal hierarchy. The kings distributed their grants of lands, often known as fiefs to his noblemen. The king was chief commandant and all the land in the area belonged to king at original. The hierarchical structure was arranged in such a format that every category of people on the upper level had more privileges & the level of command then the category following it on the lower level.
