In the middle ages the nobles what were their daily jobs?

Answer 1

Nobles had to look after peasants and make sure the bills and payments to the King were made. They also had to discuss laws and have various meetings with the King in the great hall and the inform the Knights.

Answer 2

they worked really hard and i think they worked on land like peasants.

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Commoners did nearly everything except reign as monarchs or sit in the House of Lords.

There is a bit of a misconception of what a commoner is. A commoner is a free person who is neither royal nor a peer.

In early times, the peers were only those nobles who were expected to council the king on the basis of title; later, they were only those entitled to sit in the House of Lords. Peers included only dukes, marquesses, earls, and barons.

Commoners included everyone else. The wives, children, and other relatives of the peers were commoners. Knights, baronets, and untitled lords of manors were commoners. Rich people without titles of peerage were commoners. Nearly all clergy were commoners. Of course, any yeoman was also a commoner.

Answer 3

Conventional wisdom about medieval history is that the life of the nobility was easy.

The first rule of medieval history is that conventional wisdom about it is wrong.

Early in the Middle Ages, the nobility was a warrior class. In those days, war was not more pretty than it is today, it was not more comfortably, and it was not safer.

The nobility were given estates by kings. In managing their estates, they had to deal with peasants. The peasants provided agricultural crops to the nobles. But the relationship between the nobles and the peasants is another of those misunderstood things. The nobles had a right to part of the crop, but they had the obligations of providing the serfs with land to live on and to work, and they had the obligation to protect the serfs. And the serfs did have rights, a fact people seem to forget.

The nobles also had the obligation to provide men for the king's army, as required, and to serve in that army themselves. It was better than following a plow, perhaps, but it was hardly a comfortable lifestyle. On campaign, it often meant living in a tent, though their tents were slightly bigger than those occupied by foot soldiers.

In times of unrest and war, nobles often lived in castles. In other times, they usually did not do this, because castles were mostly miserable places to live. In some castles, the best apartments for the lords were just a set of rooms created by setting up partitions in a great hall. On other castles, there were apartments in the keep, which meant stone walls, the best insulation was a carpet hung on the wall, heat in winter came from a brazier in the middle of the floor, and the smoke went out open windows set high up. This changed, of course, but rather slowly, after fireplaces and chimneys were introduced in the 11th or 12th century. (Look at a bunch of photos of castles, and figure out the proportion of them that had chimneys.)

When they were not living in castles, they were living in manor houses, surrounded by serf cottages. They had servants to cook and clean. They could go hunting. But they also had to inspect their estates and tend to whatever problems might arise. And bear in mind that when they lived in manor houses, they may have been in houses more comfortable than castles, but they were still not comfortable by modern standards.

They were better educated than most people of today give them credit for. Where we get the idea that most people were illiterate through the Middle Ages, I do not know, but there were schools dating from the beginning of the time, and universities were being founded at the time the soldiers of the First Crusade were getting ready for that war. This is not to say they were all literate, but clearly they were also not all illiterate. If they were smart, they married women who were well enough educated to take over from them and tend to business while they were gone, and who were honest and loyal. Like men of all levels of status in all ages, they were mostly not very smart when they were of marrying age.

Later, things did become lavish. But the danger and the obligations were always there. And as the middle class arose, the nobles found they had competition for who was most lavish. They past sumptuary laws to keep the middle class in its place, to prevent its members from wearing the best fur or silks, or buying the most expensive spices, but it never really worked.

It should be born in mind that in most of Europe, the oldest son got the estates and titles. A younger son was provided with a small inheritance, and a daughter with dowry. The younger sons and daughters could decide go into the Church. Or the sons could become commoners. With luck, they could do important things and become elevated to some title or estate. Otherwise, they might become knights without estates, using their inheritance for the purpose, and work essentially as mercenaries. Or, they could (shudder) enter the middle class and try to get rich.

Life for the nobles was lavish, part of the time. Most of the time it was merely better than being a peasant.

Answer 4

• The daily life of nobles started at dawn

• Mass would be heard and prayers would be made

• The first meal of the day was breakfast

• Lords and nobles would attend to business matters in relation to his land. Reports would be heard regarding estate crops, harvests and supplies. Finances - rents, taxes, customs and dues. The lord would also be expected to exercise his judicial powers over his vassals and peasants

• Complaints and disputes regarding tenants would be settled, permission to marry etc

• The daily life of the nobles would include political discussions and decisions

• As the Medieval period progressed the culture changed becoming more refined and elegant. Time was spent on the arts - poetry, music etc

• Weapon practice

• Mid morning prayers and a meal

• In the afternoon the daily life of nobles turned to hunting, hawking or inspecting the estate

• Evening prayer and then supper in the Hall of the Castle or Manor House

• After supper there might be some entertainment - music, dancing, jugglers, acrobats, jesters, etc

• The time for bed was dictated by the time the Lord or Noble retired

• Bedtime prayers

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Answer 5

a noble was part of a feudal system, Nobles was a higher rank in the fedual system.