History

What was the relationship between a knight and his land in medieval history?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/relationship-between-knight-and-his-land-medieval-history-94239.html" >What was the relationship between a knight and his land in medieval history?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

The knight generally held his lands by military tenure; thus knight service was a military service, usually 40 days a year, normally expected by an overlord in exchange for each fief held by a knight.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about knight . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What did a knight have to serve in exchange for each fief he held? How did a knight hold his lands in medieval history? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Byzantium surprise.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a...
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor ...fiction and histories as an enigma...reign - a medieval Middle Eastern...remarkable new history, Byzantium...Life of a Medieval Empire...Constantine moved his capital from...time its land base diminished...the uneasy relationship between the Western...the warring ...
Women in a men's world; The Lady in Medieval England 1000-1500, by Peter Coss....
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) ...some ways, Medieval England was...recorded history, and this...country held land which had...erosion of old land privileges...involvement in land transactions...and their lands dating from...troubled relationships between Lords and...that the knight be sent ...
Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England. (Reviews of Books).(Book...
Magazine article from: Albion ...significant role in medieval political...abundant in medieval manuscripts...in England between about 1150...of English history, both of...manuscripts of medieval English origin...townspeople, and knights wer e eager...monarch, and his relationships to his ...
This is all in a knight's work.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England) ...towards you, his own lance...lance finally lands with a clang...knights in the land prove their...limb in a Medieval joust. But...fairytales. Between April and...leaves behind his day job in...he brings history alive in...century' knights battling...title of top ...
"What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response," by Bernard...
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ...be rethinking his career choice...to repackage his erudition into...Lewis writes in his introduction...achievement." By the medieval era, it "achieved...far in human history in the arts...says, "the relationship changed...denizens of the lands beyond the Western...distinguish ...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.