To my meme understanding of the Medieval Ages, Knights received

>>1451481
I mean you could turn that around any which way.

Where the fuck did miniscule European Kingdoms get land for feudal lords on top of knights, and commoner landholders & free farmers?

Where the fuck did miniscule European Kingdoms get land for commoner landholders on top of feudal lords, and knights & free farmers?

Where the fuck did miniscule European Kingdoms get land for free farmers on top of feudal lords, and commoner landholders & knights?

Feudal Lords were knights

>>1451481

You can paid them with money and/or maintenance.

>>1451481
I don't know when you last went outside, anon, but there's actually a lot of space out there and there used to be a lot fewer people

How minuscule are we talking here?
Because even the smallest countries in Europe today have more than enough land to serve the needs of thousands of knights.

>>1451481
It's not like they each received a duchy. Land for a knight might only mean a small farm at best.

>>1451525
This. Which led to problems when the king would call a war and knights would straight up revolt over going on a campaign because they had land and people to govern.