Estate
Knight
Clergy
Homage/Vassalage
Serf
Peasant
Fief/Fiefdom
Formal public acknowledgement of feudal allegiance. For example: a man doing homage to his personal lord.
An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service; a fee.
An agricultural labourer of low social status, non privileged people. Mostly, they are submitted to nobility and clergy.
An agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on his lord's estate.
A social class forming part of the body politic. One of the three groups constituing the social classes in the Medieval Ages: nobility, clergy and common people. They are also known as the three estates.
In the Medieval Ages a man who served his lord as a mounted soldier in armour.
The body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church.
