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Around the year 1000 towns started to appear all over Europe. With population increasing because of the new farming technology, more and more people left their manors life to live in the town. At this same time trade started to increase in towns because people learned that you can trade food or other goods for money. This lead to knights wanting money instead of land and lead to the manor system slowly weakening.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine lived from c.1122-1204. She was the vassal to the King Louis Vll of France and soon married him and became Queen of France. Then she divorced King Louis Vll and married King Henry ll and was now declared Queen of England. Eleanor had many child during this time and two of them became kings of England and one of them is known as King Richard the Lion-heart.

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Lords owned an estate called a manor. Manors were farmed by serfs and had fields, water, and a forest to build their homes. The Lord controlled the manor, so his word was the law. The lord would live on the biggest house or castle on the land. The manor had one church and a mill and a blacksmith shop wear the knights suit armor was made there. But while the serfs lived on the land, they had to return the favor on living there and having protection by paying the Lord of the manor taxes.

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William the Conqueror was the Duke of Norway. In 1066 A.D. William defeated the English King and declared himself the new King of England. In return for helping him in battle William gave his knights parts of the land in his country as a thank you for helping him become King.

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Peasants were the lowest group of people on the social scale. They owned no land but were able to live and work on manors owned by nobles or knights. Their jobs were to grow and harvest vegetables and crops that they grew in gardens near their homes. Peasants were expected to live and stay on the manor for the rest of their lives. They were not educated because the manor did not have school on it and they were to make their own clothes because there were not any clothing shops on the manor either.

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Knights served and fought for lords in exchange for land. They could also except fiefs (land) from several lords and not just one at one time. Knights were expected to wear suits of armor and ride on horse back in battle for extra protection. Knights worked for the lord and their job was to protect the lord at all times.  Knights have trained to fight in battle ever since they were little because they were enrolled in to Knight school at age 7 and were to be knights until they died.

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Nobles were vassals of the King and were also known as lords of lower ranking. The nobles fought for the king and in return he gave them land. But were expected to give upper lords money on special occasions such as weddings. As a law, nobles were meant to give upper lords food and shelter if needed and could not say no to them. Nobles are able to move up on the social scale and could become a more powerful lord with more land.

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Kings and Queens were know as the greatest lords, that were born into the royal family. They had vassals who were nobles and knights and gave them land in return for their services. And also built castles as a way for protection in case their land were to get invaded by enemies.