Medieval Crossword

3. Tournament or combat of two mounted knights, using lances.
4. Officer of the royal household who served as the monarch’s secretary or notary.
6. The title of an officer given command in an army or an important garrison
8. Man responsible for running the day to day affairs of the manor or castle in absence of the lord.
10. Free man who held land from a lord to whom he paid homage and swore fealty.
12. formal public acknowledgment of feudal allegiance.
13. a long weapon,having a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, formerly used by a horseman in charging.
14. Lord’s overseer or steward
17. The highest title attainable by an English nobleman who is not of royal blood.
18. Normally the king’s eldest son

1. a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor.
2. Town with the right of self government granted by royal charter.
5. a vassal or subject.
7. A method of trial in which the accused was given a physical test which could be met successfully only if they were innocent.
9. A dry measure of 8 gallons, or 4 pecks.
11. A room
15. Badges and clothes provided by a lord for their followers
16. an oath by which a vassal swore loyalty to his lord