Charlemagnes treatment of the poor
under the frankish state there was no nobility in the sense of a well defined social order. often nobility was equated with ones wealth and to be a peasent was the same as being in need or poor. to prevent the peasants from being taken advantage of, all sales of land were to be done in fron t of the count, bishops, judges, or others with nobility. under charlemagnes looser organization the serfs themselves had the chance to live like lords if they were not under ownership of a noble or a lord himself