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Nov 17, 1086
Oath of Salisbury
William the Conqueror summonsed his tenants-in-chief to a meeting at Salisbury in August of 1086. At the meeting the most powerful barons in the land swore an oath of loyalty to William ensuring William of their full support. -
Jan 7, 1101
Pope
In 1059 the pope virtually commands the Normans to attack Sicily by giving them feudal rights over territory not as yet theirs
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Jun 15, 1101
The ruler of 12 century
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Nov 13, 1200
Western eurpe
In Western Europe the Catholic Church has been organizing law that had vanished with Imperial Rome's state power. Natural law, a phrase coined by the Romans, is being applied to property rights because, it is said, God forbade stealing. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?history -
Nov 17, 1279
Religious Service
Religious houses were granted land in return for saying prayers for the lord's family members, caring for the sick and other general charitable functions. Through the Statute of Mortmain, in 1279, Edward I limited the ability of his tenants-in-chief to allocate land to religious houses requiring them to get royal approval. The reason for this was that normally when a land owner died the king was paid tax but the religious house was not a person and this tax could not the raised thus reducing the -
Nov 13, 1300
Europeans
In the 1300s Europeans faced the constant threat of famine—mass starvation. Harvests had been poor and mass hunger a serious danger in 1305-1314; then, in 1315-1322, famine devastated most of Europe. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?history -
Nov 13, 1402
Muslims
Timur wins a great battle at Angora (Ankara). He is concerned about having helped Christians by defeating a Muslim army. He sends envoys to the Christian knights ruling Smyrna and demands that the knights convert to Islam or pay tribute. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?history -
Feudalism in Japan
After conquering the rest of Japan, he attempted to invade Korea but was unsuccessful. The reign of Hideyoshi ended when the regent, Ieyasu Tokugawa , defeated his supporters at Sekigahara (1600), one of the most famous battles in Japanese history -
France in the mid-1700s:
France was large in territory. In population it had around 19 million in 1700 – more than three times the population of England, perhaps six times the population of the United Netherlands, and six times the number of Finns and Swedes ruled by the king of Sweden. http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h29-fr2.htm -
FEUDALISM IN THE 1800’S:
ords and the Noble families are still granted Land by the Crown ,both on the soil of Britain and across the world. In exchange for these lands, Nobles provide military forces for the crown, as well as taxes to help maintain the Empire.
With the development of a Trade Empire, many Factories, Docks and industrial development is owned and ruled over by the Nobles who own the land in which these facilities operate. Serfs may own and operate their own business as well as long as they pay tax to th -
Germany
By contrast in Germany, where the elected German king proves unable to assert strong authority over his elective peers, the feudal pyramid declines into a discordant group of independent fiefs - some held by noble families, some by religious institutions, and a few by the burghers of the developing towns. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?history -
Feudalism
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyPerhaps the fullest definition of feudalism in the political sphere was given by Weber ([1922] 1957, who considered feudalism one type of “patriarchal authority.” According to Weber. The authority of the chief is reduced to the likelihood that the vassals will voluntarily remain faithful to their oaths of fealty http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/feudalism.aspx -
Power spread
For the next 500 years, great accumulations of power and landed wealth pass between a few favoured players as if in a vast board game. The rules are complex, and to an outside eye deeply mysterious. But certain actions and qualifications bring a distinct advantage.http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?history
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Feudalism began
Feudal Europe: 10th - 15th century.
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In support of the fighting man
At the heart of feudalism is a basic idea common to any society with a warrior caste. Such men need to be provided for. In a simple economy this means that the produce of an appropriate number of peasants or serfs must underwrite the expenses of the fighting man.
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Medieval Europe
In medieval Europe the system is more complex. The central economic feature is the manorial system. Transcending that, and dependent upon it, is the interconnecting network of loyalties and obligations which make up feudalism.
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