AQA GCSE History · 8145
Paper 2
The use of rewards, such as grants of land, to secure support and loyalty.
Revise: Feudalism and GovernmentWilliam used patronage to reward trusted supporters with land. The prospect of receiving or retaining an estate encouraged loyalty. Forfeiture provided the opposite pressure: disloyalty or failure to fulfil obligations could lead to the loss of land, which William could then grant to somebody else.
- Revise: Elizabeth I and her Court
The granting of rewards, such as titles, offices, land or monopolies, in return for service and loyalty.
- Revise: Challenges of a Female Ruler
The distribution of offices, privileges and rewards in return for service and loyalty.
4 more notes
- Revise: Historic Environment
Financial support or protection given by an influential person to individuals or organisations, such as an acting company.
- Revise: Charles II’s Court
The granting of positions, titles or other rewards by an influential person, such as the monarch, to supporters or favourites.
- Revise: Restoration Culture
Support given by an influential person to artists, performers or scientists, through protection, permission, money or other assistance.
- Revise: Historic Environment
Support given by a powerful or wealthy person, such as commissioning an artist’s work or rewarding political loyalty with money, land or titles.