Where did a Medieval Reeve Live?

Answer 1

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• Reeve: supervised the work on lord's property. He checked that everyone began and stopped work on time, and insured nothing was stolen. Senior officer of a borough.

MoreReeves were usually serfs, and were ordinarily elected by the serfs of the manor to supervise and organize the fields and crops. A reeve would also act as a go between for the other serfs and the feudal lord. Reeves were elected on an annual basis in many places.

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Answer 2

A medieval reeve is someone who makes sure all the work men are doing what they are supposed to and paying all their land payment.
A reeve supervised the land on a Lord's manor. he made sure that no-one was stolen from.

Answer 3

In Europe and Britain during the middle ages, most property was owned by wealthy high-ranking lords. The daily work to produce profit from this property by farming, mining, manufacturing, etc, was performed by low-ranking serfs bound in a modified form of slavery. In England, the serfs in a region annually elected one of their own to act as Reeve. The duties of a Reeve were to keep track of the activities of all his fellow-serfs and make sure that they were doing their work properly in the best interests of their lord. He was essentially an elected overseer.

Answer 4

The title reeve goes back to Anglo saxon times, when it had a meaning probably best described as the same as officer. A reeve could have varying duties, depending on what he was reeve of. He could be reeve of a county, a town, a city, a port, and so on.

After the Norman Conquest, the reeve was a person who supervised the serfs. He made land assignments, organizing production on common fields and providing small fields to each serf for personal use. He organized parties of serfs who were working together on common lands or the lands retained by the lord for personal use. He also acted as the official line of communications between the serfs and the lord. In many places he was elected by the serfs from among themselves, and in others he was appointed by the lord from among the serfs.

Some of the old reeve positions remained from earlier times, but the name was always used in combination for these. There was a high-reeve for a while, who had duties associated with courts or town government. And there was a shire-reeve, whose title was contracted into the word sheriff.

Answer 5

In Anglo-Saxon England the term reeve was originally used for that of an administrative official who oversaw a particular area, be it a town, a port, a shire (shire reeve being the origin of the word sheriff) or a village.

Later, after the Norman conquest, the term was used more narrowly. It referred to an official in a manor village, chosen from among the villagers, typically by the villagers, who was responsible for overseeing the labor owed to the lord by the tenants. The reeve would co-ordinate and direct the work of of these obligations, and report to the steward, or the lord if there was actually a lord in residence.

Answer 6

Reeves lived in his or her own village house just like other peasants did.

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Answer 7

A Reeve was a manor official appointed by the lord or elected by the peasants

Answer 8

No he normally got food and clothing. if he was to get money he would bribe someone

Answer 9

The Sheriff was the government official in charge of the Shire.