What duties nobility had in the middle ages?

>>2318196
Some were mechanics, others were ass-kissers, whatever, wherever whenever...

>>2318196
Mostly impressing other nobles and learning. It was pretty bad, it was expected of you to practice and win in swordsmanship, learn about many families, history, economy, how to manage a property and servants, but the worst thing was impressing other members of nobility and having a good reputation. Dance, chess, fighting, various strategy games, making appearences...

>>2318196

"The Middle Ages" is a period of 1,000 years across the face of a whole continent.

Primae noctis

>>2318275
kek

>>2318275

>little girls marrying up young
>a lord gotta do what a lord gotta do

>>2318196
Provide troops and legitimacy for whomever was above them.

Defending the people who paid you taxes or troops levies, and providing taxes and troop levies to the person above you

dirt and gruel

In England the peasants actually had a lot of localized power. They were far more "free" than the industrial proletariat. The Noble was obliged to send justices to oversee farmers' disputes. Peasants could rise up through the church which was the meritocracy in the feudal world. Many nobles were very uneducated and took council from educated peasants and minor nobles. It was a hard life being a noble in many ways especially when you consider that practically none of the noble families in 900AD were in power by 1500AD. It was not a sclerotic or static system, families rose and fell.

The key change in the nobility is in the middle of the 13th century with the rise of the merchant and the decline of the noble. By the "early modern" period of the 17th century, even in the 16th century the merchant had established power over the nobles. The transition from noble to bourgeois completed in England at least in 1688.

>>2318254
this desu

>>2318644
t. Locke

War

also being the owners they were the ones responsible for managing their fiefs

>>2318196
fuck bitches, get money

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>>2318196
>black woman
>middle ages europe
What did Paradox mean by this?

>>2319020
I dont think shes supposed to be black, just the lighting.

The aristocracy has traditionally acted as intermediaries between the peasantry and central power.

People may think this role is useless. But look what happened to the Russian peasantry when they got rid of the nobles in the 1920s.

>>2319020
There were black people in Europe in the middle ages, they moved there because they were white on the inside

>>2318644
>practically none of the noble families in 900AD were in power by 1500AD

:O

But that's such a brief period of time!

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>>2319045
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

>>2318196
Protecting their subjects, jurisdiction.

>>2318196

Wiping the king's arse apparently

>>2319020
not black

most likely Mediterranean

>>2319020
/pol/ says she's Irish.

>>2318228
>It was pretty bad
t.wimp

>>2318196
War, justice and development of its lands.

Look Portuguese nobility before S. Sebastian to understand

>>2318644
>none of the noble families in 900AD were in power by 1500AD

Well no shit, all the English noble families in 900AD were Anglo-Saxon royalty that got removed from power after the Norman conquest in 1066. That didn't fall from power due to societal structure, they fell because they all got killed or banished around the same time.

>>2319113
Underrated

>>2318644
>It was a hard life being a noble in many ways especially when you consider that practically none of the noble families in 900AD were in power by 1500AD.
that wasn't a result of the norman invasion?

>>2320916
>Mediterranean

Nobility were a warrior caste. They were expected to know how to fight. This was the rule all throughout the middle ages. There were exceptions but this was the rule.

Why do so many people ignore this?

>>2322467
this was also true for the rest of Europe because: >>2323460