3.Wk8_Medieval Times 3

In the middle ages they had vassals witch is a person who holds the fief and owes alliance and service to his feudal lord or the king himself. The history of the vassal’s place of origin of this designation in the feudal system is said to be England. The earliest vassals were seen in England after the Norman Conquest in 1066. William, the conquer, who invaded England in 1066, claimed that all the land mass of the island belonged to him. The Normans, infantry and soldiers, were rewarded a huge part of England's land mass, for aiding William the conquer in his campaign. The whole of England was thus practically ruled, owned and controlled by Normans. The only exception was of two Englishmen, who had turned traitors against their mother land. The land of England was distributed among the nobles and military leaders. Some of the vassals had independent lands and did not live in the manor house of the feudal lord, whom they served. The vassals were gifted with large portions of land, the standard or average size being 1200 to 1800 acres. They had a different name for vassals they were sometime s called demesne or domain. They vassals had their own land it was about 1200- 1800 acres. The vassals had different roles in feudalism for example thier jobs  provided trained solider and providing equipment. The manor house was the place of the vassals and their family was they built apart from the village where the peasants lived.