The Fall of Feudalism

What lead to the fall of Feudalism?

The King

The Lords

Anyone could become a Knight so it wasn’t prestigious anymore!

Magna Carta – Forced the King to Recognize he was subject to laws

The Black Death Killed off peasants forcing to pay in cash & growing cities meant villeins escaped

Knights

Peasants

The Lords

Peasants

What was the Medieval Middle Class?

• A new class of merchants, traders, and artisans who arose in Europe in the late Middle Ages

• Peasants moved up

What was the Magna Carta?What was the Magna Carta?

• England’s King John I was forced by his nobles to sign a document granting them legal rights in 1215.

• Lords got more power from this

How did the black plague help to How did the black plague help to end Feudalism?end Feudalism?

• Mostly peasants died from plague.

• The peasants that lived could demand more money from Lords

• The lords didn’t have enough workers so they had to give them more money.

How did the 100 years war help end Feudalism?

• England and France fought against each other

• King got taxes from people to raise an army – Lords weren’t necessary

• Peasants became Patriotic towards king not for Lords

• 1337-1453