The True Cost of Being a Medieval Lord

You think being a medieval lord or earl meant castles, power, and entire villages bowing at your feet? This video uncovers the side no one talks about: days beginning at five in the morning in rooms reeking of latrines, nearly a hundred people to feed every day, and a web of taxes, obligations, and guardianship that could bind a noble from birth to death. From the daily life of an English lord in 1250 to the real numbers recorded in the accounts of an earl in the early fourteenth century, this is the story of a feudal elite that seemed to have everything — except cash.