MANORIAL SYSTEM

By: Alexis Wissing And Sarah Mendoza

What is it? •  The system of economic and

political relations between landlords and their peasants laborers

• Another name Seigneurialism of the economy in the agriculture

• Describes how land was distributed and who profited from the land-A Lord received a piece of land, usually from a higher nobleman

Serfs • Most people •  Living on self sufficient

agricultural estates called manors

•  Life was difficult • Couldn’t leave the land without

permission from the Lord •  Three-Field-System • Had some protection from the

administration of justice

Serfs (continued) • They were not slaves

• Could not be sold or bought • Ownership of house and land if they kept there obligations

Church • The only extensive example of solid organization • The interest of early Germanic kings in Christianity was a sign of the political as well as spiritual power of the church

• Christendom- Christianity, or the part of the world mostly Christians

The Basic Unit of Manorialism •  Its basic unit was the manor, a self-sufficient landed

estate, or fief, that was under the control of a lord who enjoyed a variety of rights over it and the peasants attached to it by means of serfdom

• Under those names, was also founded in France, England, Germany, Italy and Spain but also in varying degrees in Byzantine Empire, Russia, Japan, and elsewhere

Origins • Was ma necessity in the midst of the civil disorders

enfeebled governments and barbarian invasions that wracked Europe in the 5th and 6th centuries

• Arrangement developed into the manorial system, which in turn supported the feudal aristocracy of Kings, Lords, and vassals

Rights of the Lord of the manor •  The right of common oven which required vassals to

make use of the mill, the oven, of the lord •  The right of jurisdiction under the manorialism gave

judicial power to the lord of the manor incases arising in their domains. These provided revenuer by the payment of fines

•  The right of disinheritance by which he could claim the goods of a person who died on their lands and had no direct heir. They also had the right of claiming tax when a fief or domain changed hands

Tools (related to serfs) • Moldboard – plow ( a curved iron plate)

Church • Pope (in Rome) was top authority.

• Bishops lead regional churches. • Owe allegiance to church central authority

• Bishops appointed and supervised local priests

The Pope • Regulated Doctrine • Papal missionaries converted the English to Christianity • Northern and eastern Germany

The Carolingians •  In the Franks, a new family, the Carolingians, took over the monarchy

• Charles Martel, or “Charles the Hammer” • Defeated the Muslims in the battle of Tours in 732

• A later Carolingian ruler in the same royal line Charles the great, or Charlemagne helped to restore some church-based education in western Europe • He died in 814

Bibliography •  Images used from

www.ocs.cnyric.org/w3ebpages/phyland/files/feudalism%20and%20manorialism.pdf

•  Information gathered from www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-England/manorialism.htm

•  www.encyclopedia.com/topic/manorial_system.aspx •  www.Britannica.com/topic/manorialism