LUCKY CHARMSWORLD

HISTORY PERIOD 4

CHAPTER 12: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

SECTION 2: FEUDALISM AND THE MANOR SYSTEM

A: THE VIKING INVASION OF EUROPE

THE VIKING INVASIONS IN THE NINETH THROUGH THE ELEVENTH CENTURIES

RESULTTED IN THE SETTLEMENT OF NORMANDY AND THE NORMAN

CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.

A: THE VIKING INVASION OF EUROPE

THE CRISIS OF POWER IN ENGLAND

IN THE TENTH CENTURY, THE VIKINGS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE FIGHTING AMONG CHARLEMAGNE’S HEIRS.

RAIDING PARTIES ATTACKED AND SETTLED LAND LONG THE SEINE RIVER IN NOTHERN EUROPE, IT WAS THE FIRST SETTLEMENT IN THE REGION.

AS THE NORMAN RULERS BECAME STRONGER, THEY SET OUT TO EXPAND THEIR POWER.

A: THE VIKING INVASION OF EUROPE

THE NORMAN CONQUEST

WILLIAM OF NORMANDY INVADED ENGLAND IN OCTOBER 1066.

THE NORMANS DEAFEATED THE ENGLISH ARMY AT THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS, DURING WHICH HAROLD ( KING OF England) WAS KILLED.

WILLIAM, WHO WAS KNOWN AS WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, WAS CROWNED KING OF ENGLAND ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN 1066.

B: FEUDALISM

FEUDAL SOCIETIES BROUGHT SAFETY TO

EUROPE AND A NEW CLASS OF NOBILITY

B: FEUDALISM LAND GRANTS AND SERVICE

IN FEUDAL SOCIETY, A KING MIGHT GRANT A LARGE PARCEL OF LAND, CALLED A MANOR, TO A LORD OR KNIGHT.

THE VASSAL AGREED TO WORK THE LAND, MAKE A SMALL PAYMENT TO THE LORD, AND SPENT 40 DAYS IN MILITARY SERVICE EACH YEAR.

SOME VASSALS PLEDGED LOYALTY TO MORE THAN ONE LORD.

B: FEUDALISM KNIGHTHOOD

IN THE MIDDLE AGES, THE LORD OF A MANOR WAS, BY DEFINITION A NOBLE AND A KNIGHT.

HE HAD EARNED HIS LAND AS A REWARD FOR MILITARY SERVICE TO THE KING.

A KNIGHT WHO WAS A GOOD WARRIOR MIGHT WIN LAND OR RECIVE IT AS A REWARD FROM HIS LORD.

B: FEUDALISM IMPORTANCE OF CASTLES

KINGS AND LORDS BUILT GREAT CASTLES, WITH HIGH STRONG WALLS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM OTHER LORDS.

CASTLES WERE OFTEN LOCATED IN KEY PLACES THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO TRADE OR TRAVEL.

TRAVEL AT THE MOUTH OF A RIVER OR AT THE ENTRANCE TO AN IMPORTANT MOUNTAIN PASS.

B: FEUDALISM WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE

AGES A WOMAN COULD OWN

LAND,BUT HER LAND AND HER BELONGINGS BECAME THE PROPERTY OF HER HUSBAND WHEN SHE MARRIED.

THE DAILTY LIFE OF WOMEN DEPENDED IN LARGE PART ON THEIR SOCIAL STATUS.

LADIES OF THE MANOR WERE USUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNIG THE HOUSEHOLDS.

C: THE ECONOMIC OF FEUDALISM

FEUDALISM BENEFITED BOTH

LORDS AND PEASANTS, WHILE

TECHNOLOGY IMPROVED THEIR

LIVES

C: THE ECONOMICS OF FEUDALISM

PEASANTSSOME PEASANTS WERE

FREE TO MOVE FROM PLACE TO PLACE AS THEY WISHED.

THE SERFS WERE PEASANTS WHO WERE LEGALLY BOUND TO THE LAND OF THE MANOR WHERE THEY WORKED.

SERFS COULD BE SOLD WITH THE LAND THEY LIVED AND WORKED ON, MOST OWNED VERY LITTLE, USUALLY A FEW ANIMALS AND SOME TOOLS.

C: THE ECONOMIC OF FEUDALISM

TECHNOLOGY BRINGS IMPROVEMENT IN FARMING

IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY, EUROPES’S LIFE WAS SOMEWHAT IMPROVED: PEOPLE HAD LOTS OF FOOD AND WERE NOT BEING KILLED IN BATTLE. POPULATION BEGAN TO GROW.

AT THE SAME TIME, NEW INVENTIONS MADE FARMING EASIER.

LORDS REALIZED THAT THEY MIGHT LOSE WORKERS TO FAVORABLE CONDITIONS ELSWHERE.

CHARLEMAGNE HEIRS CHARLEMGNE WAS A CHRISTIAN

KING. He was of German blood and

speech, and shared some characteristics of his people- strength of body, courage of spirit, pride of race, and a crude simplicity many centuries apart from the urbane polish of the modern French.

tried in his old age to learn writing, but never quite succeeded; yet he could speak old Teutonic and literary Latin, and understood Greek.

WILLIAM OF NORMANDY WILLIAM WAS BORN

IN 1027 HE WAS HAROLD

HEIR WILLIAM WAS THE

FIRST TO TAKE OVER FOR HAROLD BUT WILLIAM HAD SAID NO .