Chapter 1.1 (1)
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- History
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- Thegns
- Local Lords.
- Between 4,00 and 5,00 Thegns by 1060.
- Important man in the local community.
- Needed a manor house with a tower and a church and also more than five hides of land
- Hides: The measurement used for land in Anglo-Saxon and Norman England. One hide was about 120 acres
- The Social System
- Peasant Farmers
- Most Anglo-Saxons were peasant farmers. Renting small farms and working for themselves and their families.
- No one used land without carrying out some kind of service to someone else.
- Slaves
- 10% were slaves.
- They could be brought and sold.
- Normans thought that owning slaves was barbaric, but it was normal part of Anglo-Saxon society.
- Earls
- Most important aristocrats.
- The most important men in the country after the king.
- Earls competed against each other to be the one the king trusted and relied on the most.
- The king would reward this most reliable and trusted earls with land and money.
- Peasant Farmers
- Changing social status
- It was possible to change your status in Anglo-Saxon society.
- Slaves could be freed by their masters and become peasants.
- People could also move down. Peasants could become slaves.
- A peasant ho did very well and got five hides of land could become a thegn.
- Untitled
- A peasant ho did very well and got five hides of land could become a thegn.
- People could also move down. Peasants could become slaves.
- Slaves could be freed by their masters and become peasants.
- It was possible to change your status in Anglo-Saxon society.
- Thegns
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