Even when they claimed them, primarily for themselves, the whole nation participated sooner or later in their blessings.

The Barons of Runnymede were fighting the battles of every ploughboy in England when they wrenched _Magna Charta_ from King John.
Although many a feudal lord was a proud and hard-driving master, yet the vassal and the serf knew that there were limits which his lord dared not transgress; that the very spirit of his "caste", for such to a certain extent was the social rank to which the feudal lord belonged, would not tolerate any too flagrant a violation of his privileges.

A bond of united interests was found between feudal noble and his vassal.

They were found side by side in war; their larger interests were the same in peace.

Loyalty, honor, fidelity took deep root in the society which they represented.
As the aristocracy of feudalism was founded, not on wealth or money, but on land tenure, one of the most stable titles to prestige and authority found in history, there was in the underlying concept of society in those days a feeling of stability and permanency, which for a time made feudalism, in spite of its flaws, a bulwark of order.