Two Questions About Building Churches/Abbeys

[mj6373]

1) If you get Free Income from Improvements sufficient to cover an entire Endowment, and then you die and your land is reassessed after the church is built, do you owe servitium debitum on the increased productivity of your land, even though it went straight from Free Income to an Endowment during your lifetime?

 

2) If you give at least £10 as an endowment to an abbey, does the abbot owe you servitium debitum, as if they were a vassal?

[Morien]

24 minutes ago, mj6373 said:

1) If you get Free Income from Improvements sufficient to cover an entire Endowment, and then you die and your land is reassessed after the church is built, do you owe servitium debitum on the increased productivity of your land, even though it went straight from Free Income to an Endowment during your lifetime?

I'd say No, since you don't own the Endowment anymore.

24 minutes ago, mj6373 said:

 

2) If you give at least £10 as an endowment to an abbey, does the abbot owe you servitium debitum, as if they were a vassal?

No. You have given it to the abbey and the income is going towards the upkeep of the abbey and the monks, not to soldiers.

There are cases when you have given much more than what is necessary, and then it is possible that the abbot owes SD. But it would be separate from the Endowment itself. It would work simply as a grant to the abbey, same as to a temporal fief-holder.

[mj6373]

Those both make sense! Thanks, Morien!

[Darius West]

£10 is a small price to pay to secure one's immortal soul.  Perhaps I could interest you in a certain bridge project in the village of Lynbrook while you are here? 😉

[mj6373]

Immortal soul? Pshah. If your bridge doesn't give me annual Glory and experience checks, I don't want it.

[piersb]

Tempted to introduce a Bridge manor improvement now.