Feudal Lord Research Paper
The Feudal Lords
1. Make a LIST of the members of the feudal hierarchy. You can omit the church for now as we will look at that in later classes. For each person in your list, note down whom they obeyed and what duties or obligations each of them had to fulfill. Peasant: Each belonged to a parish and a manor, and had to attend the parish church. Peasants obeyed the lord of the manor. The peasants paid the lord for their land by working for him and giving him some of their crops and animals.
They were not allowed to leave the manor without the lord’s permission.
Lord of the Manor: The lord of the manor held all of the land in the manor. It was the lord’s duty to protect his people in war and in peace. The lord held the manor court to settle disputes between villagers. Important lords and …show more content…
The church had the most power over the people, like a government, and if that government was weak or had problems, there would be grave trouble among the society as well as in the eyes of God.
3. Why was there a potential rivalry between a king and the Pope?
There was a potential rivalry between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope. The Holy Roman Emperor believed that he was equal to the Pope as a servant in God. The Pope then argued that the chief king in Christendom was just as important of a servant of God as the Pope, so he wanted the Emperor’s crown, even though God had given him different duties, or else the Emperor would not have God’s blessing. The Pope won most of these arguments.
4. How did the feudal system and church hierarchy complement each other? How were they in conflict?
The feudal system complemented each other because the feudal system made it so that the social status of the laymen were all under the people of the church. The churchmen held the most power, and because the church acted as a government, and because the lords were directly under the bishops, the work of the laymen contributed to
1. Make a LIST of the members of the feudal hierarchy. You can omit the church for now as we will look at that in later classes. For each person in your list, note down whom they obeyed and what duties or obligations each of them had to fulfill. Peasant: Each belonged to a parish and a manor, and had to attend the parish church. Peasants obeyed the lord of the manor. The peasants paid the lord for their land by working for him and giving him some of their crops and animals.
They were not allowed to leave the manor without the lord’s permission.
Lord of the Manor: The lord of the manor held all of the land in the manor. It was the lord’s duty to protect his people in war and in peace. The lord held the manor court to settle disputes between villagers. Important lords and …show more content…
The church had the most power over the people, like a government, and if that government was weak or had problems, there would be grave trouble among the society as well as in the eyes of God.
3. Why was there a potential rivalry between a king and the Pope?
There was a potential rivalry between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope. The Holy Roman Emperor believed that he was equal to the Pope as a servant in God. The Pope then argued that the chief king in Christendom was just as important of a servant of God as the Pope, so he wanted the Emperor’s crown, even though God had given him different duties, or else the Emperor would not have God’s blessing. The Pope won most of these arguments.
4. How did the feudal system and church hierarchy complement each other? How were they in conflict?
The feudal system complemented each other because the feudal system made it so that the social status of the laymen were all under the people of the church. The churchmen held the most power, and because the church acted as a government, and because the lords were directly under the bishops, the work of the laymen contributed to