Hughes Smith was a serious man in his late thirties, covered in scars and looking very imposing with his large muscular body. He had long gray-silver hair and light blue eyes that gleamed under thick twin eyebrows. His weathered cheeks were even more handsome in the cold wind, a proper middle-aged handsome man.
Edward slowly followed Elizabeth out of the Echelle Palace, and the two maids beside him hurried to the stables, leading Edward's beloved colt after them. The colt belonged to the warm-blooded Kabard horse, which was a popular horse breed in England in the century. Suitable for long distance running, belonging to the late bloomer type of horse, originating from the Caucasian horse breed in the northern part of the Eurasian continent, the adult horse weighed as much as an English pound. Physically it is a type horse, certainly compared to Europe. It is a mountain horse bred in the North Caucasus with a gentle temperament, a steady gait, and the ability to orient and find their way through fog and darkness. They are very hard-working and are known for their strong endurance over long distances.
The colt was named Arthur by Edward, lol! That would be his bad taste. Arthur had a snow-white coat, which was beautifully groomed by the maids. More than a year old Arthur is very happy to be able to go out for a walk, the footsteps of the horse's head to run to Edward's side, tearing at his sleeve not to let go.
"Okay, okay! I know you're suffocating, isn't that what brought you out?" As if he understood, the colt tore quite a bit harder, but still rubbed against his slate teeth.
"Eh, well from now on I'll take you skating three times a week, outside the palace!" Edward had no choice but to make a promise.
After this Edward got away, and Princess Elizabeth was stopping to view Edward's predicament with interest, and from time to time a merry laugh came from discussing it with her ladies-in-waiting.
Edward's older sister, Princess Elizabeth, was born at Preyssea House in London, England, the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second queen, Anne Boleyn. Since her parents were married according to Protestant canon law, the Catholic Church considered her an illegitimate child.
She was named heir to the throne at birth, and her half-sister Mary was unlucky enough to become her attendant. Just as Edward was born, she and Princess Mary became Edward's nannies.
When Elizabeth was three, her mother was sentenced to death for treason, and a year later Henry VIII and his third queen, Jane Seymour, had a boy, Edward. Both Elizabeth and Mary became Edward's servants.
Elizabeth was born in the year, four years older than Edward, and because of her close age, she was very close to Edward, while her relationship with her sister, Princess Mary, was less savory.
The two fought their way to the palace's schoolyard, which was where Baron Smith was training dozens of teenage youngsters. These new lads were being tortured by the Lord Baron, who thankfully had normal preferences.
The Baron watched them closely with a serious face as they practiced arranging their mounts to sprint, and the lads tensed up under the Baron's rigorous training without uttering a word.
In view of Baron Smith's valor, Henry VIII appointed him Captain of the Court Guard, with five hundred court guards under his command. This is also all the force of the entire royal family, the standing force army.
So, generally, the Lord Baron came to train the young men who had just been added to the ranks. And he was very fond of torturing those new lads, the rumor was widely spread.
The consequence of this is that the new arrivals are basically peaceful, no pricks, so the Baron stopped clarifying?
They consisted of the second sons of some of the nobles, except the eldest, and came with their own horses and armored weapons to serve His Majesty, expecting to gain meritorious service in the wars and win fiefs.
According to the rules of the Middle Ages, the nobility owed allegiance to the enthroned nobility, popularizing the iron rule that a vassal's vassal is not my vassal.
The vassal had to lead an army in war, so the king didn't have a long army, and he couldn't afford to raise one!
During the Middle Ages, the king and the nobility ran the country together. The king divided the great nobles among the regions, the nobles had to be loyal to the king, and the great nobles in turn divided the nobles, layer after layer, thus forming the basis for the rule of the whole country in the Middle Ages.
And the order of nobility is in the order of knights - barons - viscounts - earls - dukes -King. This was the ruling power of the whole of England. Theoretically, the knights had the same status as the king, and the king was nothing more than a great nobleman, but of course this was also theoretical.
Have you noticed why there is no Marquis?
Burgh unty, principality duchy and marquis argravate.
These feudal systems began during the time of Charles the Hammer, the court minister of the Frankish Kingdom. Frankish titles were not hereditary, but after the fall of the Carolingian dynasty, the local lords, who had their own armies, took advantage of the opportunity to develop a hereditary system, creating what would later become a state within a state (early German centralization was maintained, and their duchies came to be hereditary very late).
In the Middle Ages, the most common was the state of Burgundy, the count untearl originally referred to the right and left hands of the Germanic kings, was divided into local governors to guard one side of the local governor, these local governors set the judiciary, the military, the tax power in one, and gradually formed the count of this feudal class, the division of the granting of a lot of power, but also to become a high level of the feudal system, the feudal region is called the Burgundy, which can initially be analogous to the Chinese Tang Dynasty's The region in which the feudal lord was appointed was known as the Burghood, which can be tentatively compared to the Tang Dynasty's Sectional Ministers.
And after the dissolution of the kingdom they embraced the army to establish an independent Burgh.
In the United Kingdom, the title of Duke came into being after Edward III, and was used to grant titles to princes, which were in fact the same as Burghs, except that they denoted a slightly higher status. In addition, the countries of Eastern and Southern Europe were more influenced by the Holy Roman Empire, and many of their local leaders were rewarded by the emperor with the title of Duke and were also called duchies.
Dukes are second in rank only to princes, and the territories they rule are called duchies. A Duchy has greater power, and the Duke exercises judicial and taxing authority over his land, as well as keeping his own army. The Duke can be subdivided into more Lords, such as Viscounts and Barons.
Duchies, burghs, and marquises were all given by the king directly, and in practice sovereignty varied with the power of the Son of Heaven, just like the vassal states of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Subsequent Viscount and Baronial territories were too and were no longer called States.
The concept of a margraviate was generally found in Germany, referring to that which was a frequently warring border, for which a margraviate military zone was dedicated there, with the margraviate being headed by the margraviate arquis; the two most famous border margravates were the Brandenburg (which would later form Prussia) and Austrian Borderlands (which in German means Eastern Borderlands, and which would later become a base for the House of Habsburg). The title of marquis also occasionally appeared later in other feudal states, but generally as a supplement and rarely divided.
Simple as a matter of fact a Marquis is generally a Borderland Earl. They were elevated to Marquis because of their unusual status due to the war tensions in the border region. Because it was a border region, naturally there were fewer than the usual number of earls. Of course there are other reasons, but this is an important one.
Getting back on topic, another point is that Henry VIII was a good king, and spent almost all of his kingly career in war, so there was a good chance of getting credit for being on his side.