manorial dues
Feudal estate charges
Manorial dues were payments owed by peasants to the lord of a manor under the feudal system.
These included rents, fees for using the lord's mill or oven, and obligations to work the lord's land.
The dues bound tenants to the estate and persisted in parts of Europe until the 18th or 19th century: The villagers petitioned for relief from their manorial dues.
- Middle AgesEurope's feudal millennium
- rentPayment for temporary use
- quit-rentPayment replacing service obligations
- harvest timeSeason of collecting crops
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
lordship · tithe · vassalage · common land · fief · feudal Europe · tenant farmer · villeinage · demesne · reeve · medieval England · feudal lord · bailiff · levy · homage · medieval village · bondage · feudalism
- feudalismfief, vassal, fealty, homage, lord
- feudal leviescorvee, feudal levy, quit-rent, wardship, tithe
- feudal rightsfealty, homage, vassalage, lordship, fief
- French taxationcapitation, corvee, aides, salt tax, direct taxes
- Russian serfdomserfs, peasants, bondage, unfree labor, bound labor
obligation type
manorial dueswage labor
Work exchanged for payment
market rent · freehold · commercial lease · gift · donation