What was the rank of a lord?

Answer 1

It was the highest. The lord was the one who made all the rules, and everyone had to follow them.

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A lord did not have a specific rank. The younger sons of an Earl, for example, were called lords, but they were commoners and did not necessarily have any rank of nobility at all. A man titled Lord Chamberlain did not necessarily have a noble rank either, though he had a high position. The lord of a manor was likewise not a person who necessarily had a specific rank, and was most likely a commoner. A person could be a knight without being a lord, but a person could also be a lord of a manor without having a rank as high as knighthood.

Answer 2

The serfs and villeins, who were unfree, but not slaves, were usually at the lowest level. In some places there were times when there were slaves also, and they would have been lower than serfs.

Above them were freemen, men and women who were neither noble nor serf. They included the middle class from bakers and blacksmiths to lawyers and physicians. In some places they might have included agricultural workers called cottars, who were hardly different from serfs.

Above them were a group called the gentry, who were the landlords of manors, but not necessarily of the nobility, and not necessarily knights. They were related to the nobility in some cases.

Above them were knights and the various levels of nobility.

There was a lot of variation in this, both from place to place, and from one period to another.

Answer 3

someone having power

master or ruler

prince

male

Answer 4

A lord did not have a specific rank. A lord could be merely an untitled lord of a manor, or a person with an office with the word lord associated with it, or a titled member of the nobility.