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<blockquote data-quote="TallIan" data-source="post: 7541313" data-attributes="member: 6853819"><p>Looks good so far. Feel free to make up a family name - and as much of your family as you like. I haven't got a lot of detail for this fleshed out, we can all make stuff up as we go along.</p><p></p><p>My limited, casual knowledge of feudalism leads me to think this: Bedegar has around 35 to 45 knights fees* (this would be a very large barony, but fantasy tends towards things being bigger than they would be). Most of these would be knights that owe fealty to the Baron, but around a third would be wealthy commoners who pay scutage** for their land tenure. Add in family ties*** and the fact that some knights (or tenured land holders) would owe fealty to another knight and you can get some fairly complex factions and family houses to play with. A VERY powerful knight would have at most three or four vassal landholders, probably only one or two a noble.</p><p></p><p>In case you don't know what I'm on about: </p><p>* Very much like a manor (almost the same thing). A plot of land big enough to support a knight, complete with retainers (men-at arms; archers and in the case of fantasy, wizards), servants and horses, arms and armour for the lot. Around 1000 to 5000 acres depending on resources. The holder of the knights fee would owe service to the Baron for 40 days a year.</p><p>**A payment to cover the cost of the 40 days service from the above</p><p>***This could be between nobles and commoners as only the eldest gets the noble title, unless the parent has multiple titles as inheritance, rare at this level of nobility.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TallIan, post: 7541313, member: 6853819"] Looks good so far. Feel free to make up a family name - and as much of your family as you like. I haven't got a lot of detail for this fleshed out, we can all make stuff up as we go along. My limited, casual knowledge of feudalism leads me to think this: Bedegar has around 35 to 45 knights fees* (this would be a very large barony, but fantasy tends towards things being bigger than they would be). Most of these would be knights that owe fealty to the Baron, but around a third would be wealthy commoners who pay scutage** for their land tenure. Add in family ties*** and the fact that some knights (or tenured land holders) would owe fealty to another knight and you can get some fairly complex factions and family houses to play with. A VERY powerful knight would have at most three or four vassal landholders, probably only one or two a noble. In case you don't know what I'm on about: * Very much like a manor (almost the same thing). A plot of land big enough to support a knight, complete with retainers (men-at arms; archers and in the case of fantasy, wizards), servants and horses, arms and armour for the lot. Around 1000 to 5000 acres depending on resources. The holder of the knights fee would owe service to the Baron for 40 days a year. **A payment to cover the cost of the 40 days service from the above ***This could be between nobles and commoners as only the eldest gets the noble title, unless the parent has multiple titles as inheritance, rare at this level of nobility. [/QUOTE]
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