Medieval History

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Across
  1. 3. Large-scale spread of a disease
  2. 4. A region of Western Europe.present day counties in this region are France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine.
  3. 5. wall Outer wall surrounding an inner wall in a castle
  4. 9. Member of a closed community of woman living under religious vows and rules.
  5. 10. Pledged their loyalty,money and prayers
  6. 12. Offered to pray for the monarch
  7. 13. A barn where peasants' produce is stored as a form of taxation
  8. 18. Head bishop
  9. 20. 2nd ranking in the feudal system.
  10. 22. A magistrate administering law in a village
  11. 23. Innermost tower of a castle
  12. 24. Paid taxes in the form of crops and worked the land
  13. 27. In England, a lord whose status placed him just below of a prince; elsewhere in Europe, a ruler of a small state called a duchy or dukedom
  14. 28. Provided fully equipped knights to serve for a term in the monarch's army
  15. 29. Received land form the Tens-in-chief in return for fighting and guarding property
  16. 32. Main church of a diocese; contains the bishop's throne
  17. 35. Officials of the church
  18. 36. A giant crossbow firing flaming bolts over the castle wall
  19. 37. Offered to fight for the monarch
Down
  1. 1. Social order in medieval Europe
  2. 2. A solider who fights for money rather that for patriotic reasons
  3. 6. Chief nun in a convent
  4. 7. Straw used for making rooks
  5. 8. Hand-painted illustration in a medieval book
  6. 11. A time in history when nothing really happened
  7. 14. Mean people from Scandinavian countries, killing and fighting other countries in order for land
  8. 15. Water filled defensive ditch surrounding a castle
  9. 16. Rod symbolizing royal; authority of the monarch
  10. 17. A disease that spread across the known world. in europe one third of the population as a result of this.
  11. 19. The position of peasants who were not free to leave the land they worked
  12. 21. In the fourteenth century, one who was a landowner but not a member of the nobility.
  13. 25. Monterrey or convent run by an abbot or abbess
  14. 26. A counterweight catapult used for hulling huge rocks.
  15. 30. Gave land to tenants-in-chief who paid rent in from of continuing loyalty and military support
  16. 31. Paid for the use of this land. they work for the lords as well as them selves.
  17. 33. Globe with a cross, symbolizing a Christian monarch's rule
  18. 34. Chief monk in a monstrance