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Showing posts with label decimation of the populations. Show all posts
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Friday, April 5, 2013

E-F Post: Exclusive Fiefdom, part 1

Per Wikipedia, "Black plague"
The years following the plague had been rough.  Too rough. 

Populations had been decimated by the plague, and there had been scrambles to keep the rioting and panic down.

Damn them!  King Rufred scowled out across the land from his keep.  How dare those peasants die and leave no one to continue the work of providing me with food and wealth.

Oh, sure.  The peasants were regrouping and starting over.  But there were so many gaps in the chain of command.  Some of his most stalwart lords and knights had been taken out by the plague as well.  

What to do about the lands that now lay under his watch, without the man power to protect them??

Rufred had imported some Norman knights, given them some land.  

But that still did not answer his growing concern:  How can prosperity and healthy populations forever exist in this current desperate time?


Harold Sacramentum Fecit Willelmo Duci
Fiefdom, layers of society, per Wikipedia
Exclusive Fiefdom will continue in tomorrow’s post.  What WILL King Rufred do??