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Feudal duties were the set of reciprocal financial, military and legal obligations among the warrior nobility in a feudal system. [1] These duties developed in both Europe and Japan with the decentralisation of empire and due to lack of monetary liquidity, as groups of warriors took over the social, political, judicial, and economic spheres of the territory they controlled. [2]
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This category lists the various types of obligations due under feudalism, such as military service and payment of taxes, and those articles where feudal duties are paramount. Pages in category "Feudal duties"
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Feudal titles and status; Lord paramount / Territorial lord: Tenant-in-chief: Mesne lord: Lord of the manor / Overlord / Vogt / Liege lord: Esquire / Gentleman / Landed gentry: Franklin / Yeoman / Retinue: Husbandman: Free tenant: Domestic servant: Vagabond: Serf / Villein / Bordar / Cottar: Slave
China had a feudal system in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which gradually gave way to a more bureaucratic one beginning in the Qin dynasty (221 BC). This continued through the Song dynasty, and by its peak power shifted from nobility to bureaucrats. This development was gradual and generally only completed in full by the Song dynasty.
Barons could hold other executive offices apart from the duties they owed the king, such as an earldom, though immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066, very few barons did. An Earl, at the time, was the highest executive office concerned with shire administration, holding higher responsibilities than the sheriff , whose title would later ...
This system of feudal tenure was not always restricted to lands, as church revenues and tithes were often farmed out to secular persons as a species of ecclesiastical fief. Strictly speaking, however, a fief was usually defined as immovable property whose usufruct perpetually conceded to another under the obligation of fealty and personal homage.