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• What nobles do


  • Look after their land and people
  • Fight in battles as knights or leaders
• Feudalism

  Land granted by the king to nobles in return for taxes, loyalty and military support
• Noble's house


  • Stone house/castle, at least 2 stories
  • Many rooms and elaborate furniture, as well as tapestries
• Food nobles consume


  • Meat
  • Deserts
• Peasant's house


  • Wooden huts
  • Clay walls
  • Dirt floors
  • Own veg. Garden
  • Thatched roof
• What peasants do


  • Work from 4am to 7pm, rest on Sundays
  • Follow a three field system
  • Eat brown bread, salmon, pottage, ale
• 90% of Medieval England was made of peasants
• Women were depicted to embroider and weave as a daily activity, preventing researchers from finding more about other daily tasks
• Motte and Bailey castle

  • Motte
  • Ditch/moat
  • Gate
  • Wooden fortress
• Early Stone Castle


  • Bailey
  • Stone keep
  • Curtain walls
  • Moat
  • Round turrets/towers
  • Great hall
  • Drawbridge
• Concentric Castle


  • Inner Bailey
  • Outer Bailey
  • Two curtain walls with the centre wall higher
  • Gatehouse and keep have been refined
• What knights do


  • Follow code of chivalry
  • Serve as subtenants in the feudal system
  • Provide military support to the noble family
  • Participate in tournaments
• Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror defeats King Harold


  1066 AD
• Feudalism


  A social system that operates on a basis of obligations and rights concerning the land given to the vassal, introduced in England by William the Conqueror
• Feudalism originated in response to the aggression of barbarian tribes as when the roman empire fell