Life of a blacksmith in medieval Europe?

Answer 1

the tudor blacksmith would not only make horse shoes and other metal things but would also do the job of a farrier, shoeing the horses aswell. shoeing horses can be a very dangerous job especially if the horse hasn't been trained well or at all. the farrier puts his life in hi hands ever time he shoes a horse so obviously you can tell it's a very well payed job because of the huge risk. back to blacksmiths. they would wear a leather apron and often be training someone or being trained so they could work at the best of their ability. often smithy's lived quite a long way away from the rich people who could afford his work so he had to do a good job so they didn't have to keep coming back.

Answer 2

They work with a lot of metals and because of medieval blacksmiths we have the doors we use today and the metal tools we also use. They sometimes wear leather aprons and mainly old clothes. They get money for the things they make, mainly tools made out of metal.

Answer 3

The role of the medieval blacksmith, like that of blacksmiths before and after the middle ages, was to work iron and make iron products such as horseshoes, tools bars, gates and many other products.

Answer 4

The Medieval Blacksmith was a very important member of the community. Through his skills, the weapons armies needed to protect feudal communities were forged. The Blacksmith was responsible for making siege weapons, armor and shields, church and castle doors (to protect from vandals) as well as swords, daggers, lances and arrowheads. Even in the Blacksmithing community, there was a hierarchy. The Castle Blacksmith, lived under the protection of the Lord and was required to make and maintain the weapons of the lords and knights. While village blacksmiths, town blacksmiths and blacksmiths in monasteries were basically doing household objects, tools and some weapons. Those in cities in towns also belonged to guilds.

Answer 5

a blacksmith would usally wake up early. every un inportant person would have a breakfast around 3 in the morning.

for breakfat they would have a small amount of bread and water or a little bit of milk.

sometimes they would have leaftover from the kings and queens dinners.

fact

kings and queens thought that lunch was the biggest meal of the day.

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Answer 6

The term used at the time was smith, smithman or blaksmith, meaning a man who worked iron. Iron ore was first purified to remove most of the other metals, producing irregular lumps of ore that could be shaped into bars, rods or plate.

Smiths used a forge operated by large bellows - an assistant would have to constantly work these bellows to keep the fire at the correct temperature. Using a pair of metal tongs the smith took out the iron from the forge and placed it on the nearby anvil so it could be beaten with a hammer - farriers still use exactly the same process today for making horseshoes.

Smiths made agricultural tools, nails, hinges, locks, straps for doors and coffer chests and many other small iron products.

For forging a knife blade (and certain other cutting tools such as axes) the smith would make a "sandwich" or laminate with two bars of soft iron and a central bar of mild steel - this was simply iron heated in a strong mixture of wood and charcoal, which transferred some of its carbon content to the metal. By folding and beating this laminate, a strong, sharp blade could be made. Many examples of medieval knife blades show this method of construction, sometimes including decorative pattern welding.

Nails could be made by the hundreds very quickly by a skilled smith, while more complex items such as hinges took longer. Village smiths were not generally capable of producing complex products such as armour or helmets - these were left to professional armourers.

The final process was to melt beeswax over the surface of the product - this immediately turned black and produced a waterproof protective coating (hence blacksmith).

See link below for an image of a 14th century smithy, with the forge and bellows on the left of the picture:

Answer 7

yes, the black smith could live in his shop but if he's the king's black smith he would live in the king's castle