Social Class List

One of a class of tenants holding his rights and title by military or other honorable service directly from a feudal superior (as a king). A vassal who served as a member of the king's great council. It was not, of itself, a title, but rather a description of the Tenants-in-Chief class of nobility.

sheriff/master craftsman

✇The chief administrative and judicial officer of a shire. He collected taxes and forwarded them on to the Exchequer, and was also responsible for making sure that the King's table was well stocked.

✒A person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.

Apprentice

A boy studying a trade from a skilled master. Apprenticeship was a sort of bonded servitude in which a young boy is given to a master of a trade. The master is usually highly skilled at his job. The boy then learns the trade from the master. In return he doesthe master's grunt work.  An apprentice had to pay a large sum of money just to start.  

artillator/merchant

➹Maker of bows, arrows, and other archery goods.

$Merchants set up businesses in the towns that began to grow in the later Middle Ages. The most commonly traded items were salt, iron, and textiles. There were also rarer items, such as silk and spices, that came from the trade with China and the Middle East

butler/maid

✍The chief male servant of a household, usually in charge of serving food, the care of silverware, etc. a male servant having charge of the wines and liquors.

✿A , a young unmarried boy, a shortening of the word maiden. A Uke servant, boy or young unmarried guy.

knight/hunts man

♞The warrior (on retainer) who owed military service to his lord in exchange for  payment of money, titles, and/or fief (land). Knights also aspired to the ideals of loyalty, generosity and courtesy, known as chivalry.

卐Responsible for organizing hunts and guarding royal forests against poachers.

musketeer

A member of the infantry.  Muskets were invented in China and were used as part of the military . The then made their way into Spain.  The famous French Musketeers that King Louis appointed as his personal guard weren’t commissioned until 1622, falling n the Renaissance Period of history.

keeper of the seal/cook

☨The title Keeper of the Seals or equivalent is used in several contexts, denoting the person entitled to keep and authorize use of the Great Seal of a given country. 

♡The person who oversees the kitchen and prepares the food.

jester/hinds/cottager

 ☺A professional fool or clown at medieval court.

✼Farm workers

☧A peasant of lower class who owned a cottage, but owned little or no land.

servants/small holder

✥Servants were peasants who worked in the lord's manor house,doing the cooking, cleaning,laundering,and other household chores.  

ϟA middle class peasant,farming more land than a cottager but less than a villein.A typical small holder would have farmed 10 to 20 acres. 

commoner/peasant

☯Lowest class of people. A person who does not belong to the nobility. A person who has a right in or over common land jointly with another or others.  

☮Farm laborers of low social rank; coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial means.