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A steward managed the financial and real assets of his employer, who might be a lord, king, or some other person with sufficient wealth that it needed to be managed. The steward's job included accounting, managing rent and other income, and keeping track of expenses. It often extended beyond these and could even include acting as butler.
Stewards were sometimes very powerful, and some were even more powerful than the people they served. The Frankish office of majordomo was for the steward of the king. Eventually Charles Martel, as majordomo, deposed the last Merovingian king of the Franks, taking full control himself, with the pope's blessings. Similarly, the Scottish Stewart family got its name from the office of royal steward, but eventually married into the royal family and wound up in possession of the throne.
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What social class was the medieval gamekeeper in?
The gamekeeper would have been in the peasant class.
Was the medieval Steward a peasant?
No, a steward was not a peasant. Contrary to what is often stated, there was always a middle class in the Middle Ages, and stewards were members of the middle class. They were the equivalent of accountants or managers, and were educated, so they could keep notes and take care of bookkeeping.
What social class were carpenters in middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, artists were mostly independent craftsmen. This put them outside the much talked about structure of medieval social classes, which consisted of peasants, nobles, and clergy. Along with merchants, craftsmen were what we would call middle class, a group most medieval social theorists chose to ignore when they wrote about the structure of feudalism.
What was the medieval class system?
feudalism
What is a medieval merchant class town dweller?
a midevil merchant class town dweller is a man who sold products in that era and lived in a town with class and dwelled on his problems
