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The vassal had people working for him who were free, but who were obliged to be ready for combat on relatively short notice. These include free farmers, called yeomen, knights, and others. If the king needed military help, these were mobilized. This took only a short time, and was very efficient, compared to the mobilization process used in other times, making the process a good answer to local problems, such as Viking raids, but was useful for full scale war as well.

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A vassal could do a lot with his fief. Usually, he would grow crops, build a home, raise animals, and sometimes collect natural resources available to him.

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No. The fief was the land. The vassal was responsible for it.

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Difference between vassal in medieval ages and fief?

A vassal was a person, and a fief was land. A vassal swore allegiance and support to a king, and the king gave the vassal fief to live on.


How does a vassal get his fief?

Vassals agree to fight for the lord, and after an agreement is made the vassal is given a fief in the agreement.


Is a fief is the troops of knights granted to the vassal?

It is true that a fief is the troops of knight that was granted to the vassal.


A piece of land given to vassal by a lord?

A fief.


Who usually received a vassal's fief when vassal died?

his oldest son


A vassal was given the rights to control the fief and to have ownership of it?

This is called an investiture. Investitures were common in the 11th and 12th centuries. The land the vassal was given is called a fief.


What word means the custom of giving the fief to the eldest surviving son of a vassal?

Surviving fief


What was a set of unwritten rules that determined the relationship between a lord and his vassal?

The set of unwritten rules that determines the relationship between a lord and his vassal is that the vassal must protect the lord and the lord must provide protection for the vassal. This was a rule that most vassals and lords lived by.


Who usually received a vassals fief when the vassal died?

his oldest son


The land a feudal lord turned over to a vassal was called a fief guild?

No, it was just a fief. A guild was an organization of tradesmen or craftsmen.


A peasant who is bound to the land is a fief?

A peasant who is bound to land is a serf, while a fief is an estate granted to a vassal.


What is a pledged support in exchange for fief?

A Vassal takes a pledge of loyalty to the lord