![]() ![]() The nobles, then, ended up with twenty-two chocolates, 220% of their original share of the harvest. The nobles therefore received thirty chocolates, ten from each knight, in addition to the ten from the harvest.įrom this thirty, he needed to pay the king six chocolates from each knight who had paid his allegiance (a total of eighteen chocolates). ![]() Each knight gives ten chocolates to the noble. However, they were effectively being paid by the peasants at five chocolates each.Įach noble is paid by three knights, and each knight is paid by two peasants. Thirdly, the nobles, collected payment from the knights. This, in effect, was 120% of the original equal share of the harvest. This meant he ended up with two extra chocolates resulting in a total of 12 chocolates. In our illustration, each knight had two peasants to protect. This was called a payment of fidelity.Įach knight, therefore, ended up with his ten chocolates plus one from each of the peasants he protected. But out of the six given to him by each peasant, he had to pay 5 to the noble to show his allegiance. Secondly, each knight could keep his ten chocolates (100%). Each peasant, therefore, ended up with only 40 % of the original equal share in the harvest. Peasantsįirst, each peasant had to pay six out of their ten chocolates (60%) to their knights, in return for their protection. Next, we divided the payments out accordingly. Looks fairly even and fair so far, yes? Feudalism in Practice ![]() I allotted each class ten chocolates from the yearly harvest. The peasants were at the bottom and the king at the top. We divided the figures into the hierarchy of classes, according to the feudal system. Really you could use any proportions so long as there is only one king, more knights than nobles and more peasants than knights: I set our rather grubby table as shown below. I had thought the children understood feudalism but I this exercise showed they had missed the finer points of it. I did a practical demonstration of how feudalism in the Middle Ages worked using Play Mobil figures and chocolate. The King was voted the most desirable class to be in! Demonstration of Feudalism in the Middle Ages I asked which class each child would have liked to belong to. They paid rent to the knights in return for their protection. Peasants or commoners then worked the land. The nobles, in turn, rented out land to knights in return for their promise of allegiance. King William claimed all the land for himself and proceeded to rent out percentages of it to the nobles. The Normans introduced feudalism to Britain in the Middle Ages after the battle of 1066. ![]()
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