What were rich people called in the middle ages?

AnswerThey lived in big houses. AnswerIn Western Europe, during the Early Middle Ages, the wealthy people were nearly all of the nobility, and they lived in manor houses at the edges of, or even in, villages. As the Middle Ages progressed, things changed.

The development of castles started during the ninth century, and at that time members of the nobility started to live in castles during stressful times. A very few may have lived in castles permanently, but castles were very expensive to keep, and unless they were enormous, and enormously expensive, they tended to be very uncomfortable.

Later, the nobility tended to want to live in more comfortable manor houses out of sight of the villages, so the old manor house were left for new ones farther out in the country.

As more time passed, the wealth acquired from trade and financial services tended to accumulate in the hands of middle class people. They lived in towns and cities, and had town houses of a palatial scale. As cultural centers developed, members of the nobility also wanted to have town houses, and so began to move into housing similar to that of wealthy merchants.

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