What caused the downfall of the feudal system in midieval england?
Nothing, because there wax no downfall. The feudal system evolved, like all societal systems do. Subsistence became less of a struggle, surviving population increased, improving technological and manufacturing methods made for more opportunity for the working man, who was no longer so tied by necessity to the soil. And the English aristocracy, as well as the ‘squirarchy.’ began to see that people worked better, and everyone benefitted, when they were allowed to profit from their labors. Living closer to the land than did the French aristocracy, for instance, the English were quick to see the benefits of freedom, for themselves and the ‘common man.’ There are a horde of reasons and causes, but chief among them were the lessons the Barons’ learned from their own struggle, with the erratic and conniving John ‘Lackland’ Plantagenet, to win some independence from his whims, and a clear delineation of the prerogatives and responsibilities of both Crown and Noble. Also huge in the evolution w
