A duke can have a manor, and they can split up the rest of their duchy and give sections of it to form counties that could be led by counts. But what we're going to focus on in this video is the manor itself, because that's where life in a medieval community actually takes place. And the work on a manor is done essentially by the lowest rung of the ladder. And that is both free peasants and also by serfs. To get a sense of what a medieval manor could have looked like, here's a picture. This would have been a particularly fancy manor right over here. This is a ducal manor.