Lords And Ladies Flashcards
Tell me about lords from the medieval times
Lords owned huge areas of land.
Commanded many knights and soldiers.
He had to maintain orders in his land
Act like a judge and train his soldiers.
Hunt down animals
Tell me about ladies in the medieval times
Ladies married young .
Their marriages were arranged by the two families.
The ladies name duty was to bear children as heirs.
The lady also ran the household
Where did Lords and ladies live?
Louis and ladies lived in castles on the top floor near the chapel and a warm sunny room called a solar
Where were feasts held in the castle?
Feast were held in the great hall
What was the ditch around the Stone Castle called?
A moat
What was life in a mediaeval town like?
The poor people in times lived in wooden houses and the richer people would live in houses made of stone. Mediaeval times only had about 1000 people living in them and the largest had 5000 rebuilt on rivers or coasts that people can make money from trade. Most of the houses were wooden and were very endanger of catching on fire most houses had a curfew and had to extinguish their fire by a certain time if their house was made of wood
What were wooden houses like?
Most houses stories high and usually craftsman had their shops or workshops on the ground floor with their family living on the floor above houses had no toilet instead people used a dung heap.
What were the streets like?
Streets were very narrow with small houses. This means that disease could spread very easily as so close.
What is the black death?
The worst disease affect Europe in the middle ages was called the bubonic plague. This was from between 1347 and 1350 estimated to kill at least one third of Europe and it was there as a black death plague was carried by fleas which I taught to have arrived through ships rat from the Black Sea area and have spread along the trade network three Europe.
