Feudalism represented a system in which the occupants and users of the land they lived and worked on were not the owners; they were “tenants” of the “sovereign” – the Lord of the Manor – who legitimized his authority by claiming to offer protection to the occupants in the form of military service.
Peasants or Serfs. Peasants are commoners and lived on the manors of monarchs, nobles, or knights. They were granted the right to farm a plot of land in exchange for working the nobleʼs land.
Lord of the Manor” was often used to denote someone who was in control of land.