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Social Hierarchy
Hierarchy
sought for
Knighthoods. come with
importance
Lesser Gentry and power
had more in as they were
common with relied upon.
Yeomen. Not they owned
a fixed caste. lots of land.
Nobility
Who
they?were What
power did
they hold?
The
churchmen Important
bishops sat
were in the house
people who of the Lord
worked in and often
Who the church. had political
they?were What
power did Lower roles to
they hold? workers undertake.
dealt with They hold a
They
dominated Some
as theypower spiritual lot of power
land would advise needs. as the
ownership - the King and Higher religion in
there was choose who workers this period
only 50-60 of fights dealt with was huge
them. Most alongside the politics.
had political King.
influence as Powerful
they would social force.
be the ones However, Who
to provide Henry VII they?were What
power did
the Knights was they hold?
for any Gentry
controlling
battle. them and Farmers, No power
tried to keep Bourgeois, all as the at
them all loyal Lawyers,
Nobility population
and valuable. Husbands,
Clergy has
Shopkeepers
Gentry decreased
and Laborers. by black
Churchmen AllMerchants
of which
Yeoman death. It
were
Bishops would only
Who sometimes be the
they?were What
power did Archbishops
considered
peasantry.
as bourgeois
lawyers with
they hold? a bit of
They power.
great were They did not
hold much Others were
at the
landowners power. They bottom of
(15 to 20% of were mainly the class
England’s knights - so
land.) They they did
