WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Certain vassals who held their fiefs directly from the crown were tenants in chief and formed the most important feudal group, the barons.

Detailed explanation-2: -A feudal society has three distinct social classes: a king, a noble class (which could include nobles, priests, and princes) and a peasant class.

Detailed explanation-3: -Classic feudalism In broad terms a lord was a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. In exchange for the use of the fief and protection by the lord, the vassal would provide some sort of service to the lord.

Detailed explanation-4: -The lord owned the land and everything in it. He would keep the peasants safe in return for their service. The lord, in return, would provide the king with soldiers or taxes. Under the feudal system land was granted to people for service.

Detailed explanation-5: -Feudalism in 12th-century England was among the better structured and established systems in Europe at the time. The king was the absolute “owner” of land in the feudal system, and all nobles, knights, and other tenants, termed vassals, merely “held” land from the king, who was thus at the top of the feudal pyramid.