THE SEIGNEURIAL SYSTEM

THE SEIGNEURIAL SYSTEM

A little video from students explaining the main points about the Seigneurial System

Their duties and expectations

Seigneurs

Seigneurs had to pay the state a tax equal to 20% of the purchase price. They also had to pay fealty and homage to the king, represented by the intendant. Seigneurs recognized the royal authority and agreed to loyally fulfill their duties to the state and to the censitaires in their seigneury. They had to set aside oak (needed to build ships) and mines (whose minerals fattened the state's coffers) for the state. If required by the intendant, the seigneur had to produce an aveu et dénombrement, or a detailed description of the state of their seigneurie and an inventory of the revenues it generated.Seigneurs were responsible for populating their seigneur or face losing them and they were required to concede plots to those requesting them, build a flour mill, and make it available to censitaires for milling grain. They also had to set aside a commons, where all the cesitaires could pasture their livestock.

Seigneurial system differences in France and New France

How it was formed

The seignerial system of New France was different from the one in France because the seigneurs of New France were granted to military officers and in France many were owned by the Catholic clergy.The family lives were also different.

INTRO

The most popular and known seigneur

Cardinal Richelieu was the most popular and known seigneur because he started the Seigneurial system in New France.

Bad things they have to face

The seigneurs didn't have a lot of problems. The bad things were paying taxes and building things. The seigneurs were also incharge of the entire seigneury so they had big duities and expectations they did not like.

Habitants had a worse life then the Seigneurs. They had to a lot more work then the Seigneurs and got pretty exsausted by it.

Clothing and family life

Habitants

The seigneurial system was introduced to New France in 1627 by Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu granted the newly formed Company of New France all lands between the Arctic Circle to the north, Florida to the south, Lake Superior in the west, and the Atlantic in the east. In exchange for this vast land grant and the exclusive trading rights tied to it, the Company was expected to bring two to three hundred settlers to New France in 1628, and a subsequent four thousand during the next fifteen years. To achieve this, the Company subgranted almost all of the land awarded to it by Cardinal Richelieu. Despite the official arrangement reached between Cardinal Richelieu and the Company of New France, levels of immigration to French colonies in North America remained extremely low. The resulting scarcity of labor had a profound effect on the system of land distribution. In practice, the lands were arranged in long, narrow strips called, seigneuries, along the banks of the St. Lawrence River

Seigneurs wore formal and rich looking cloths unlike the habitants because the habitants had to wear farming appropriate cloths.

You guys probably know about the seigneurs already but we didn't get to learn a lot about them so here's our presentation about the Seigneurial System ! by: Prabhleen, Jaspreet, Harshdeep, Surayyah, Jessie , and River

Gender and Woman's life

The most common or i think all the seigneurs were all men.Unless,the died and the woman\wife of the family would take over.A lot of people in the seigneurs time also thought men were stronger which is why most seigneurs were men.

Unlike legal systems found in many other European countries, including England, the french system of justice allowed women to hold seigneurial land. Women in New France were encouraged to marry by the age of 16. This meant that they often inherited land and when their husbands died. Some women took charge of their inherited land and others kept it only untill a son is old enought to farm it. Other woman, such as Madeleine d'Allonne held their own seigneuries.

The Habitants had different jobs depending on season.They had to farm the land and make sure it was healthy.The habitants had to build their own homes. If a habitant did not follow these rules they would not remain on the land and be kicked out.

What they gave the Habitants

Seigneurs gave the Habitants a even amount of land and provided them with flour mill,church,and other necessary things. The Habitants usually gave the Seigneur some of their food and things the Seigneur needed at times.

How their Seigneurial system looked and how much land they had

The seigneurial system was big as 15 by 5 km.The seigneurs land was in the middle and obviously bigger then the Habitants.The seigneurial system was also near the St.lawrance river

Family life in new France was like a closed self-supporting group,particularly because children usually remained with the family untill they got married.This was different from the custom in France.The French at the time did not belive in the period of carefree innocence known as childhood. Rather,children at that time were seen as young adults.They were expected to do their chores unquestioningly and to contribute to the household. Often children were apprenticed at a young age and had to leave the family home. It was quite comman to have large families in New France

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