Nobles

Relationships

- Responsible for keeping people safe
- Ate food prepared by servants
- Lived with their families in the Keep (a building in the castle for nobles)
- Had solars (sitting rooms)
- Judicial power over the vassals and peasants
- Given a large portion of King's land called fiefs, or manors
- Noblewomen played an active role in society, especially when father/husband was off fighting

Leased land from the King, and in exchange, pledged loyalty to protecting the King.

- Had servants
- Knights were sons of nobles
- Used knights for their own protection

4% of population