![]() The nobles ended up with 22 chocolates, 220% of their original share of the harvest: From this 30 he needed to pay the king 6 chocolates from each knight who had paid his allegiance (a total of 18 chocolates). Here our knights are paid by 2 peasants and each noble is paid by 3 knights (in other words 6 peasants) thereby receiving 30 chocolates in addition to the 10 from the harvest. The nobles, although collecting the payment from the knights, were effectively being paid by the peasants at 5 chocolates each. This, in effect, was 120% of the original equal share of the harvest. In our illustration each knight had 2 peasants to protect and so ended up with 2 extra candies resulting in a total of 12 chocolates. Each knight, therefore, ended up with his 10 chocolates plus one each from the peasants he protected. Each peasant ended up with only 40 % of the original equal share in the harvest:Įach knight could keep his 10 chocolates (100%) but out of the 6 given to him by each peasant, he had to pay 5 to the noble to show his allegiance (called a payment of fidelity). Looks fairly even and fair so far, yes?Īccordingly each peasant had to pay 6 out of their 10 chocolates (60%) to their knights in return for their protection. Each class representative was alloted 10 chocolates from the yearly harvest. The peasants at the bottom and the king at the top. Here the figures are divided 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 worked using Play Mobil figures and chocolate. The King was voted the most desirable class to be in! I asked which class each child would have liked to belong to. The commoners then worked the land and paid rent to the knights in return for their protection. 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. Feudalism was introduced to Britain by the Normans after the battle of 1066.
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