In England, the equivalent of count was an earl who still presided over a county, and their wife was a countess. And when I say preside, they had almost full control over it. They would even give justice over the people who happened to be within their fiefdom. Now, I started this video showing a picture of a knight on horseback, and knights are probably one of the strongest association with medieval times, so many of you are probably thinking, where do knights fit into this? A knight refers to slightly different things depending on what region you are in or what time period within the Middle Ages, but it generally refers to a mounted soldier, someone skilled in fighting, someone who might have nice armor, but over time, it became a prestigious title that was given by a monarch or by a lord in exchange for service, oftentimes military service. You might have a knight who is granted a fief from, say, this count right over here, and say they might be lord of their own manor, they might have their own serfs who are not quite slaves, but they're bonded laborers who cannot leave and don't have a lot of rights working the field. You might have other knights who got the title but did not get the land, and to complicate things further, any of these characters can have multiple titles.