2. Aim: How did the Feudal System provide for the needs of the people on the Manor?

3. Do Now: Does this image best represent a society with social mobility or a rigid social class? Explain

4. Europe in the 6c

5. Charlemagne’s Empire

6. Charlemagne’s Empire Collapses: Treaty of Verdun, 843

7. The Rise of European Monarchies in England

9. WHY WAS FEUDALISM NECESSARY?
After the Roman Empire collapsed, Europe had no strong central govt.
Cities were much smaller and were no longer economic cities bur places to huddle for protection.
Feudalism began on the latifundia of Roman times
Roman nobles needed to protect their estates but had no money to pay soldiers
Former Roman generals and their soldiers were offered land in return for their assistance in protecting the estates.
Former tenant farmers and slaves of Rome became the peasants who worked for the landed upper class in return for a protected place to live.
Some small landowners willing gave up their land to the nobles in order to have a safe haven.
Nobles who had the land also had the political power.
He made all the laws for his fief

10. Big Answer
After the Roman Empire collapsed, Europe had no strong central govt.
Cities were much smaller and were no longer economic centers.
People fled to the country for protection against…

11. Vikings, Huns & Muslims, Oh my!
Invaders

12. Europe had no strong central govt. = no protection!

13. A violent society Seize new territories Increase wealth
Nobles constantly fought each other to:
Seize new territories
Increase wealth
Kept Europe fragmented

14. Feudalism
Feudalism: a political system in which kings grant lords land in exchange for their military service and protection of the people

15. Vocabulary Feudalism – exchange of land for loyalty Lord – gives land
Vassal – excepts land
Fief - Land

16. Relationship Between Lords and Vassals
Vassals had certain duties to perform for the lord
All nobles were ultimately vassals of the king.
The relationship between lords and vassals made up a big part of the political and social structure of the feudal system.
Based on ties of loyalty and duty among nobles
Nobles were both lords and vassals
Ties were made official by the “act of homage”
Fiefs were given to vassals by lords
Lords gave vassals the right to govern the people who lived on their fiefs
Lords promised to give protection to the vassals
Breaking the feudal contract could mean loss of land
Vassals had certain duties to perform for the lord.
Helped the lord in battle
Participated personally in military service 40 – 60 days a year
Gave money when the lord’s daughters married and when sons were knighted
Paid the lord’s ransom or took his place if he was captured
Attended the lord’s court
Provided food and entertainment when the lord visited
All nobles were ultimately vassals of the king.
Nobles provided the king with knights to form an army for defense and conquest
Because of this, the real power belonged to the nobles.

17. Feudalism
Write down each groups role. Why is it important for everyone to have a role and obligations?

18. Lords Lords had the political power.
made all the laws for his fief (land grant)

19. Knights Lower nobility
Trained for war by fighting each other in tournaments

20. Peasants
Villeins- skilled workers who paid rent and could leave the manor
Serfs –Farmers. No freedom – Could not leave property

21. A Contract Between a Villein & His Lord, 1307
Each villein had a contract with his lord spelling out his rights and duties. 

22. John of Cayworth [villein] holds from his lord one house and thirty acres of land.  For his right to this land, he must pay the lord two shillings a year at Easter and Michaelmas.  At Christmas he must give the lord one chicken and two hens worth four shillings. (like taxes)
John of Cayworth may not allow his daughters to marry without the consent of the lord or the lord's bailiff.         
Michaelmas, the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel (also the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a day in the Western Christian calendar which occurs on 29 September. Because it falls near the equinox, it is associated in the northern hemisphere with the beginning of autumn and the shortening of days. In medieval England, Michaelmas marked the ending and beginning of the husbandman's year, George C. Homans observes: "at that time harvest was over, and the bailiff or reeve of the manor would be making out the accounts for the year."[1]

23. Manorialism Economic system structured around a lord’s manor/estate.
Included one or more villages and the land surrounding.

24. The Medieval Manor How was the manor self sufficient?

26. Medieval Manor Describe the roles & responsibilities of a manor.
What was produced on the manor?
What was life like for a serf on the manor?
If time