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The nobility worked together with the urban citizens in order to limit the powers of the royalty. The Crown, on the other hand, joined the municipal/city governments to weaken the forces of the feudal (Minlan, 2007).
The principles of the feudal society also maintained that the King depends on himself for a living but if the King is in need of what can be called as some sort of non-feudal revenue, he makes an agreement with the taxpayers (ibid).
There were certain upheavals during Aquinas time. Peasant resistance was common in France. Unity was not achieved among the lordships which is why attempts towards the subordination of these peasants failed. This resulted to the non-existence of free labor. Rent on customary tenancy was also paid in money terms which added to further decline of real feudal revenue (Das, 2005).
The lords, as I have mentioned earlier, were also not united to the extent that they waged wars among themselves. Fiefdoms were at stake on these wars which was even magnified by the fact that there is an absence of central powers to control these wars (ibid).
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