Feudal Europe in the Middle Ages
Across
- 2. A medieval warrior who served a lord in exchange for land
- 3. The land granted to a vassal by a lord
- 4. short, three line poems of 17 syllables that describe nature scenes
- 7. A noble who pledged loyalty to a king or higher-ranking noble
- 10. A large estate that included farmland and villages
- 11. A person legally bound to work on a lord’s land)
Down
- 1. French noble who defeated the English king at the Battle of Hastings
- 3. The economic system based on lords granting land to vassals
- 5. The code of conduct that knights were expected to follow
- 6. The act of swearing loyalty and service to a lord
- 8. a young person that trains to be a knight
- 9. The ruler at the top of the feudal hierarchy