of a few. The Carolingian kings might rejoin: “You say that like it’s a bad thing.” Primogeniture created the feudal system as we see it in the Middle Ages, when younger sons went out as landless knights to win their own manors while the older brothers ruled in a pyramid of power...
Feudal System Hierarchy Feudal hierarchy refers to a social structure where the influence and power of an individual are determined by the amount of land he holds. So a greater higher in the feudal hierarchy held a greater amount of land while one lower in the social ladder had lesser land. ...