Information about Free Tenant
Free Tenants, also known as Free Peasants, were peasants in Medieval England who occupied a unique place in the Medieval hierarchy. They were characterised by the low rents they paid to their Manorial Lord as well as being subject to less laws and ties than their villein counterparts.
Attempts had been made by some contemporary scholars to set out a legal definition of freedom, one of the most notable being the treatise by Ranulf de Glanvill written between 1187 and 1189. This stated that:
Another way to identify a freemen in the Middle Ages, was to determine what kind of taxes or laws they had to obey. For example having to pay Merchet, a tax paid upon the marriage of a servile woman, was a key sign of being unfree.
Definition
One of the major challenges in examining the Free Peasants of this era is that no one single definition can be attached to them. The disparate nature of Manorial holdings and local laws meaning the Free Tenant in Kent, for example, may well bear little resemblance to the Free Tenant in the Danelaw.Attempts had been made by some contemporary scholars to set out a legal definition of freedom, one of the most notable being the treatise by Ranulf de Glanvill written between 1187 and 1189. This stated that:
| He who claims to be free shall produce in court several near blood relatives descended from the same stock as himself, and if they are admitted or proved in court to be free, then the claimant himself will be freed from the yoke of servitude| |
Another way to identify a freemen in the Middle Ages, was to determine what kind of taxes or laws they had to obey. For example having to pay Merchet, a tax paid upon the marriage of a servile woman, was a key sign of being unfree.
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peasant, derived from 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays, the countryside or region, which itself derives from the Latin pagus
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Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three "ages": the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times.
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Feudal society is a sometimes-debated term used to describe the social order in the Western Europe, Central Europe, and sometimes Japan and other regions in the Middle Ages, characterized by the legal subjection of a large part of the peasantry to a hereditary landholding elite
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Manorialism or Seigneurialism is the organization of rural economy and society in medieval western and parts of central Europe, characterised by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory
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Kent
Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region South East England
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Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region South East England
Area
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- Admin. council
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The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles also known as the Danelagh, (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of the British Isles, now northern and eastern England, in which the laws of the Danes held predominance over
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Ranulf de Glanvill (sometimes written Glanvil or Glanville) (died 1190) was chief justiciar of England during the reign of King Henry II and reputed author of a book on English law.
He was born at Stratford in Suffolk, but the year of his birth is unknown.
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He was born at Stratford in Suffolk, but the year of his birth is unknown.
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Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three "ages": the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times.
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A merchet was a fine paid on a marriage during the Middle Ages in England. The word derives from the plural form of daughter, merched, in old Welsh. A peasant would pay a merchet to his lord upon the marriage of a woman.
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