Equipment and Personal Purses or Items–when clearing the gleanings from a battlefield, soldiers typically were allowed to keep small purses and items. But they often were expected to gather weapons, armor, and extremely valuable items into a common pool in exchange for a fair share once the overall valuable of the loot was established. Some companies and armies operated according to a finder-keeper principle for anything on the battlefield, but doing so was considered an unnecessary risk by experienced commanders by indiscriminate looting could destroy the momentum of an attack, a pursuit, or a formation.

Ransoms–captured nobles and officers often paid large ransoms for their release.

Payments from Cities or Towns–these payments were usually the tangible result of an agreement with the victor’s commander to avoid the sacking of the city.

Sacking of a City or Town–the loot from a captured city could reach staggeringly high amounts. For example, when the Tiberian imperial capital fell during the long civil war after the Collapse, the communal loot included over 400,000 marks of coins and valuables, 10,000 suits of armor, and thousands of weapons.

Customary shares

A third of a third–If an archer, man-at-arms, or knight captured a prisoner worth a large ransom, they shared a third of the ransom with their superior officer or lord, and the superior shared a third of their third with the sovereign. The ransoms for high-ranking nobles were negotiated but often were set at a large amount–thousands or tens of thousands of crowns or hundreds of thousands of marks were not unheard of. And although some nobles failed to make full payment, which sometimes become cause for further conflict, many nobles did pay their ransoms in full to keep their honor intact. Many lords paid for the building of their largest castle through their ransom earnings.

Awards of confiscated property–leaders or governments reward loyal risktakers with the properties of former enemies; both the Southern Republic and the Duchy of Ravenwood awarded houses, warehouses, and other properties to officers and soldiers, and although many recipients ransomed back the properties to family members in exchange for the money, many others kept the property because the owners were deceased or because they were not interested in reconciliation.