Average land ownership of Medieval nobility?
Long story short, I'm trying to work out an accurate number of levies for the various houses in Alryia and how many levies each of their vassals would be able to supply and I couldn't find anything on examples of how much land(in acres or km) was on average owned by people from the various tiers of Medieval western european nobility(Dukes, Counts/Earls, Barons, Knights) personally. Does anyone here have any numbers for this?
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Re: Average land ownership of Medieval nobility?
Well there is data out there but averages are the bane accuracy in this endeavor (in my opinion)
What a piece of land can support vary much depends on a lot variables - so many that you might as well just make them up based a nugget of truth. Look up the Domesday Book and scholarship around it it will certainly give you a good ideal about 1086 in England.
You might also find the J & F Gies useful
https://books.google.com/books/about...d=AY61AAAAIAAJ
That's only one book but they have written a rather large number of other publications and other books on medieval life.
Last edited by conon394; December 22, 2015 at 06:32 AM.
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