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A villein was the most common type of serf in the Middle Ages.
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The yard in this sense later became the standard holding of the medieval villein, and was known as the virgate.
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Ecclesiastical manors tended to be larger, with a significantly greater villein area than neighbouring lay manors.
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In the Middle Ages, land within a lord's manor provided sustenance and survival, and being a villein guaranteed access to land, and crops secure from theft by marauding robbers.
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On the other side of the account, manorial administration involved significant expenses, perhaps a reason why smaller manors tended to rely less on villein tenure.
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Sub-letting of villein holdings was common, and labour on the demesne might be commuted into an additional money payment, as happened increasingly from the 13th century.
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- Serf: (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
- Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism, and specifically relates to Manorialism. It was a condition of bondage or modified slavery which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe. ...
- Villein (or villain) was the term used in the feudal era to denote a peasant (tenant farmer) who was legally tied to the land he worked on. An alternative term is serf (from Latin servus = "slave"). A villein could not leave the land without the landowner's consent. ...
- (The Villeins) The Villeins are a mixture of 5 lads, Dave (Vocals), Gav (Bass) & Duff (Guitar) have lived in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne all their lives, where as Andy (Guitar) moved to Newcastle from the North-West (Morecambe) to study at Northumbria University as did Sam (Drums) who moved up from ...
- A feudal tenant
- (villeins (yd)) villeins farm servant (slave)
- An unfree peasant, legally and socially tied to their lord's land.
- Wealthiest class of peasant. They usually cultivated 20-40 acres of land (sometimes as much as 100 acres), often as separate strips in different fields. He was also required to work on his lord's land or to provide a service to his lord.
- In feudal times a man of semi-servile condition, subsequently known as a copyholder.
