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Feudal and Manorial System

Feudal and Manorial System. 3 Keys to Understanding Feudal Relationships. Only nobles could be vassals. It was possible to be both a lord and vassal at the same time. It was a direct relationship.

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Feudal and Manorial System

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  1. Feudal and Manorial System

  2. 3 Keys to Understanding Feudal Relationships • Only nobles could be vassals. • It was possible to be both a lord and vassal at the same time. • It was a direct relationship. • Each man owed loyalties only to the lord directly above him or to the vassal directly below him.

  3. Feudal Obligations • Obligation: a responsibility or duty, a commitment • Feudalism: Provided protection at a local level and served as the political and social structure. • Political: only nobles (lords and vassals) • Social: based on heredity, no movement in social class allowed

  4. Feudalism

  5. Manor System Obligations • The manor system was the basic economicstructure • It rested on a set of rights and obligations between the lord and his serfs or peasants • Peasant (freemen):a person who works the land in return for protection • Serf:a peasant of the lowest class, who is bound to the land and cannot leave it

  6. Manor

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