Prendeur
A prendeur, a French term, is a labourer working as part of an early Middle Age sharecropping system known as "complant", a precursor to the métayage system. Under this system, the "prendeur" would cultivate land owned by a bailleur. In exchange for using the "bailleur's" soil, the "prendeur" promised a share of the crop or its revenue. The length of this partnership varied and sometimes would extend over generations.