Interesting.
The Old English word for “lord” in Anglo-Saxon England was hlaford, which literally means “bread-giver” or “loaf-guardian”. The word hlaf-weard means “bread-warden
It is thought that after the catastrophic weather in the early 6th Century trigger by a massive, or multiple massive, volcanos, that force a rather chaotic tribal style system to become increasing more centralized under local Lords who became the early Anglo Saxon Kings
Control of who gets resources and who doesn’t may be the origin of all political systems past and present.