Feudalism

Feudalism Feudalism is one type of government, which contains kings, vassals, knights, lords, lesser lords, and peasants. Feudalism is a loosely organized system of rule in which powerful local lords divided their lands among lesser lords in exchange for military services and pledged loyalty. It came to as a need for control over peasants and protection from the Muslims and the Magyars. The relationship between lords and vassals was established by customs and traditions. A lord granted his vassal fief or land, which ranged from a few hundred acres to a square mile in which it included peasants to work the land. The vassal pledged loyalty and military service to his lord. Besides granting an estate, Lords also promised to protect their vassals in return vassals pledged 40 days military service each year and certain money payments in advance each year. Below the Monarchs were the most powerful lords-Dukes and Counts- who held the largest lands. Each of these lords peasants, lords, vassals, lord, land, powerful, each, vassal, pledged, military, lands, feudalism, year, worked, work, service, serfs, relationship, one, manor, loyalty, lord’s, lesser, held, government, days, between, below, widely, week, very, type, tried, treat, traditions, themselves