The Role Of Feudalism In The Middle Ages

In the early middle ages, a network of mutual obligations was the glue of the society. Powerful local lords divided their landholding among lesser lords. These lesser lords, or vassals, pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord. This system was implemented due to the Vikings, Muslims and Magyars. The powerful lords were the most powerful and influential in society, they were also called dukes and counts. The powerful lords had vassals, vassals can become other people’s vassals. Peasants pledged allegiance to these powerful lords in exchange for land and protection. Peasants can pledge allegiance to more than one lord. Thus creating a complex web of vassals being vassals to other people and peasants pledging allegiance to more than one vassal. This further made things even more complex when two of the vassals that peasants pledged allegiance to went to war. This societal system was called Feudalism.
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