Feudal system

The feudal system is a Political system in which the social organization is distributed in fields controlled by Seigneur S.

This article presents the feudal system present at the Moyen-âge in Europe.

Definition

The medieval company comprises three orders: The Clergy, the Armed and the People. The feudal system indicates the period of the Moyen-âge between Xe and XIIIe century which is characterized by:
  • a company in which the lords bind by Serment with others or with the vassal ones which receive in return a Fief in exchange of the services that they ensure. These vassal could in their turn bind with thevassal ones. The bonds between them were at the same time economic, Politique S and soldiers.
  • a company in which the inhabitants (in majority Paysan S), Serf S, Artisan S or peasants free, are subjected to the capacity of the lords but also profits from their protection.
The feudal system was thus based on a reciprocal help between weakest and strongest. From the XIIIe century, the feudal system is on the decline but the feudal rites will remain and will be repealed only with the revolution.

Birth of the feudal system

With the Xe century, the Occident knows news invasion S. The Viking S, come from Scandinavia (Northern of Europe from where “Norman”), thanks to their Drakkars, go up the rivers and plunder the Occident.

The defense of the country is exerted by the local authorities, Count S and rich owners, because the King does not have a Armée which can supervise the Estuaires permanently.

The Count S and the great landowners replace the king locally and exert the same rights as him in their seigniories. They lived a Domaine and rented grounds with the Paysan S in exchanges of various loads. The peasants paid the Dîme in order to be able to enjoy the Moulin and the Four as well as very other installation belonging to the Seigneur of the places. The peasants lived on the grounds of the lord. Harvests were also cut down on the one hand to pour with their lord.

Economically, the feudal system marked a return to the Autarcie: stationary economy, few exchanges, no Specialization, not of interdependence. The field could live without external intervention. The ground was the only source of richness and was the base of a new social hierarchy: clergy, seigniory and farming community (Third-State) (source: economic court of history of the facts L1).

Three states

See also: Company of Old Mode

Clergy

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The nobility

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The third-state

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See too

  • Feudality
  • System seigneurial of News-France

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